Dear reader
Since virtually all Bachtrack’s income comes from clients who promote live performance and the Covid-19 pandemic has caused the cancellation of almost every concert or opera in the world, we have needed, with great reluctance, to take extreme measures to ensure Bachtrack’s survival.
We can’t afford to keep paying our wonderful employees, so from April 9th, we have taken advantage of the UK government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and placed them on furlough. This means that they will receive a reduced salary which will be reimbursed to us, but the rules of the scheme bar them from working for us during this period. We look forward to ending this furlough and returning them to normal employment as soon as we possibly can.
From the point at which concert halls and opera houses started to close, we have been busy turning Bachtrack into a fabulous resource for watching music online. We’ve listed literally hundreds of concerts and operas available for you to view, the vast majority of them free – the choice is bewildering! We’ve also added a section for other performance arts: theatre, comedy, circus and even videos from art galleries.