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Un Belge à Paris : César Franck était un organiste, un compositeur et un professeur de premier plan au XIX^e siècle, mais sa musique est passée de mode ces dernières décennies. Il y a beaucoup à apprécier dans notre playlist...

De l'enfant prodige à l'image d'un conservateur indécrottable, la vie de Camille Saint-Saëns s'est étalée sur huit décennies. Profitez de notre sélection musicale de ses meilleures œuvres... et de quelques surprises !

À l'occasion du 50e anniversaire de la mort de Stravinsky survenue le 6 avril 1971, voici une playlist de ses meilleures partitions.

Avec les mesures de distanciation sociale, de nombreux orchestres ont dû repenser leur répertoire pour continuer à se produire pendant le confinement. Voici les œuvres classiques les plus fréquemment programmées au temps du streaming pandémique. 

D'Oblivion à Libertango en passant par la fugue et la milonga, voici une playlist pour célébrer un compositeur qui a créé un nouveau genre en partant des bordels de 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...

De Wilbur Hall à Charles Chaplin, en passant par Ray Chen et Gilles Apap, voici dix violonistes qui ne manqueront pas de vous surprendre par leurs talents insoupçonnés.

Le 23 avril 2016 marque le 400e anniversaire de la mort de Shakespeare. Nous avons pour l'occasion établi un playlist avec nos œuvres préférées par celles inpirées par Shakespeare.

On a beaucoup écrit sur Subelius durant cette année anniversaire mais pour célébrer le jour même de son anniversaire nous avons souhaité offrir nos œuvres de Sibelius préférées pour votre plaisir d'écoute !

Nous fêtons aujourd'hui l'anniversaire de Claudio Monteverdi. Découvrez l'œuvre de ce compositeur révolutionnaire dans notre playlist !

Dans un concours entre deux compositeurs nés le même jour, Brahms et Tchaïkovsky, explorez la riche playlist que nous avons choisie pour vous inviter à voter Tchaïkovsky !

Béla Bartók est né en ce jour de l'année 1881. Pour marquer l'occasion, nous avons constitué une playlist de nos œuvres préférées.

Ce mercredi 2 juillet 2014 marque le 300ème anniversaire de la naissance de Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck, célébration pourtant discrète dans les opéras à travers le monde.

Célébrez les 204 ans du compositeur à travers cette sélection d'interprétations françaises

Un échantillon rassemblant les oeuvres de Korngold des plus jouées aux plus oubliées.

From the early succès de scandale of Salome to a golden Indian summer, Richard Strauss’ long career spanned eight decades. Enjoy some highlights in our playlist. 

From Henry Purcell to George Benjamin, a set of ten operas to demonstrate that English is not just a language for prose and poetry, but also a vibrant language for opera.

If Georges Bizet had written only Carmen, he would still have earned his place in classical music’s Hall of Fame, yet there is much more to this composer who died tragically young. 

Gabriel Fauré is often obscured by the twin shadows of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, but his “pure music”, especially the luminous, sublime late music with its daring harmonic progressions, still has the power to astonish. 

Giuseppe Verdi was more than just an opera composer. He became a political figurehead. Our playlist includes nine of his most famous operas and his Requiem, described as “an opera in ecclesiastical garb”. 

Gustav Holst is famous for his astrological orchestral suite The Planets, but there’s more to discover in his eclectic catalogue, particularly inspired by his interests in travel and Hindu literature. 

Who's afraid of Arnold Schoenberg? His music was met with great hostility from critics and audiences, but his revolutionary “serial” method became the foundation for musical modernism in the 20th century.

Johannes Brahms was a big supporter of Antonín Dvořák and justly so, for the Czech master, who made it big in America, composed music full of bucolic good humour and Romantic richness. 

“Cathedrals in sound” or “symphonic boa constrictors”? Bruckner composed eleven symphonies, but how many make our top ten playlist? 

Der Trompeter Simon Höfele ist einer der besten jungen Musiker aus Deutschland. Für Bachtrack stellt er zehn seiner Lieblingswerke für Trompete vor, mit dem einen oder anderen weniger bekannten Namen...

Janáček was heavily influenced by folk music and speech inflections of his native Moravia. The vast majority of his greatest works come from his final decade, inspired by his infatuation with Kamila Stösslová.

Anneleen Lenaerts, Soloharfenistin der Wiener Philharmoniker, ist die Gastkuratorin für unsere Harfen-Playlist.

Bohuslav Martinů was a true cosmopolitan: Czech, but spending much of his life in France and the United States, writing in an eclectic style that drew on many influences. 

If Mozart and Beethoven are the Son and the Holy Ghost of classical music’s Holy Trinity, it is surely Johann Sebastian Bach who is the Father. 

The father of Czech music, Bedřich Smetana was born 200 years ago. We celebrate his bicentenary by exploring his works, from the popular Má vlast to less-heard piano music. 

George Frideric Handel was quite the cosmopolitan composer, travelling from Germany to Italy and London, where he eventually settled, becoming a naturalised British citizen and court composer for the big ceremonial occasions. 

Dubbed “half monk, half rascal”, Francis Poulenc was a complex composer, his music ranging from witty vaudeville to choral music of religious fervour. 

Beethoven's achievements were huge; he composed the greatest symphony cycle ever, as well as string quartets, piano sonatas and concertos which all broke new ground.

Maria Callas was the most iconic soprano of the 20th century. We mark her centenary by looking at ten of her most important roles.

A tour of Britten, celebrating the finest works by the composer who launched the English operatic renaissance. 

Conformist or closet dissident? Dmitri Shostakovich had to adapt, chameleon-like, to the changing political climate in the Soviet Union, toeing the party line where necessary, but planting his music with coded messages.

His symphonies are now mainstays of orchestra seasons, but during his lifetime Gustav Mahler was more famous as a rigorous conductor, his music misunderstood and scorned. 

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. 

“Give me a laundry bill and I will set it to music.” Composition seemed to come easily to Rossini. He wrote around 40 operas in only 17 years... but then he suddenly stopped. Enjoy our top ten selection. 

Child prodigy, keen traveller, champion of Bach – Felix Mendelssohn packed a lot of music into his short life, music that teems with freshness and vigour.

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.