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"Deme la lista de la lavandería y le pondré música". Rossini tenía mucha facilidad para componer. Escribió unas 40 óperas en tan sólo 17 años... pero de repente, paró. Disfrute de nuestra selección de sus diez mejores.

Niño prodigio, viajero entusiasta, adalid de Bach: Felix Mendelssohn compuso mucha música en su corta vida, música que rebosa frescura y vitalidad.

Mark Pullinger celebra a este compositor inglés por excelencia con una lista de las obras más inspiradoras de RVW.

De niño prodigio a ser considerado como un conservador adusto, Camille Saint-Saëns vivió más de ocho décadas. Disfruta nuestra selección musical de sus mejores obras… y algunas sorpresas.

Tchaikovsky podía hilar melodías como pocos y fue, sin duda, uno de los compositores mas versátiles.

Brahms se desahoga en cada una de sus composiciones y lleva al oyente a un viaje emocional inolvidable

La exigencia de distancia social ha hecho que muchas orquestas se hayan replanteado el repertorio que programan durante el confinamiento. Mostramos aquí las obras más programadas durante el periodo de streamings de la pandemia.

No, no es una playlist de los grandes éxitos de Ludwig, sino una muestra de los rincones más oscuros del catálogo de Beethoven, incuyendo algunas "obras sin opus"…

El origen de la composición del ciclo de canciones de Berlioz con un análisis musical y una playlist

Prepárate un buen chocolate caliente y disponte para una Navidad operística algo kitsch

Hemos elaborado esta lista de compositores en activo de varias generaciones, algunos han creado escuela y otros tienen un estilo más personal, pero en todos los casos son compositores comprometidos con la creación y el pensamiento musical del momento.

Os presentamos una lista con los 10 mejores conciertos para clarinete según nuestros clarinetistas preferidos, Elisabeth y Mark. Esperamos que disfrutes de ella.

El 23 de abril de 2016 se celebra el 400 aniversario de la muerte del Bardo. Hemos confeccionado para la ocasión una playlist con nuestras piezas favoritas inspiradas en las palabras de Shakespeare

Celebramos el cumpleaños de Claudio Monteverdi. Disfruta de un recorrido por la vida musical de este compositor revolucionario!

"Seis pies y medio de melancolía rusa" solía bromear Igor Stranvinsky sobre su compatriota Sergei Rachmaninov. Os presentamos una playlist de algunas de las obras más conocidas junto a algunas rarezas.

Hoy celebramos el cumpleaños de J. S. Bach. No ha sido una tarea fácil seleccionar una sola obra cada uno, pero hemos conseguido una interesante selección que esperamos que disfruten.

Béla Bartók nació tal día como hoy en 1881. Para celebrarlo, hemos elaborado esta playlist de favoritos de Bachtrack. Esperamos que la disfrute.

Quintessentially English or establishment outsider? Elgar was seen as provincial – and was never more at home than in his beloved Malvern Hills – but he had a European outlook.

Born 100 years ago, the music of Hungarian composer György Ligeti is varied and multiplicitous, displaying a voracious curiosity and a multifaceted imagination.

Drawing on the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), Wagner is best remembered for his extraordinary music dramas, not least the monumental, 15-hour Ring Cycle.

“I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.” Prokofiev was one of the most important Russian composers, writing in a variety of forms and happy to challenge conventions. 

Possibly the greatest pianist of the 20th century and one of its greatest composers too, Sergei Rachmaninov left a relatively small catalogue – only 45 published works – yet many of them appear frequently in concert programmes. 

A playlist presenting a multiplicity of musics from eight women composers from around the world, with premieres in 2023.

“I've written only one masterpiece. Unfortunately it has no music in it.” To which work was the self-critical Maurice Ravel referring and where does it come in our playlist of the dapper Frenchman’s top ten?

Composer of some 500 concertos and around 90 operas, there's much more to the “Red Priest”, Antonio Vivaldi, than the ubiquitous Four Seasons. 

Many of Schubert's “late” masterpieces – he died aged only 31 – are included in our editor’s selection of his top ten works. 

How to select a top ten from over 600 works by one of the world's greatest composers? An impossible task...

Giacomo Puccini knew how to pull the heartstrings in his music. He made his soprano characters suffer... but also composed some of his best music for them. 

Exploring choral selections from Sweden, Chile, Russia, Ukraine, Canada, Dominica and Nigeria, to bring a variety of festive splendour to the end of this year.

A Belgian in Paris, César Franck was a leading organist, composer and teacher in the 19th century, yet his music has slipped out of fashion in recent decades. There is much to enjoy in our playlist.

The tragedy of the invasion of Ukraine has rejuvenated interest in Ukrainian music for many across Europe. This playlist glances the surface of a musical culture that runs incredibly deep.

The world stands agog as the US undergoes another election. These composers sought to reveal the brokenness of US politics – and the ability of the American people to come together in spite of it.

A musical exploration of the roots of Halloween (and associated festivals La Toussaint and El Día de los Muertos) – when the dead come alive and walk among us.

Star organist, conductor and broadcaster Anna Lapwood is our guest curator, presenting her top ten – for today – favourites works for her instrument. 

Mark and Elisabeth travel to the sinister worlds of singing automata and seven-headed mouse kings to bring you the best works inspired – and composed – by ETA Hoffmann.

To mark Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee in 2022, here is a playlist of music associated with the monarch, including many works performed at her coronation in Westminster Abbey. 

“Father of the Symphony” Joseph Haydn composed 104 (numbered) symphonies which is a plenty large enough pool from which to select our top ten. 

Mark and Elisabeth descend to Hell to find the right soundtrack for Dante Week and to mark the 700th anniversary of the poet’s death.

Vom Serpent bis zum Kontrafagott, wir stellen die hippsten Instrumente im Orchester vor.

Who says that classical music is obsolete? We collected a few pieces of music inspired by urgent, topical matters that define our times.

Here are ten unusual instruments you might not be too familiar with.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky's death on 6th April 1971, here is a playlist featuring his best scores.

A personal voyage through the life and music of Béla Bartók, from memories of learning an instrument to watching an orchestra beat the pandemic.

Ten unusual takes on the Russian-Soviet composer's music to celebrate the 130th anniversary of his birth.

Clone wars: here's our top five of the best videos of musicians doubling down on their incredible talent.

From Oblivion to Libertango by way of fugue and milonga, here's a playlist to celebrate a composer who created a new genre from the bordellos of Buenos Aires. 

Depuis la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, une quantité d'écoles et compagnies ont été fondées par des femmes, à l'origine d'un grand nombre de créations capitales dans l'histoire de la danse...

Gather your littles ones around and settle down for a musical tale or two with our favourite works for children.

Die Nachdenklichkeit, die jede Zeit mit sich bringt, kann auch mit einer Prise Witz unterlegt werden; da sollte die Musik keine Ausnahme machen.

Richard Strauss schrieb über 200 Lieder. Umso schwerer war es für unsere Rezensentin, zehn Favoriten herauszupicken.