East meets West in Dai Fujikura’s The Great Wave at @scottishopera.bsky.social ✍️ David Smythe bachtrack.com/review-fujik...

Reincarnation of Baroque ecstasy: Giulio Cesare at the @elbphilharmonie.de ✍️ Mengguang Huang bachtrack.com/review-giuli...

Ambition achieved: Ed Lyon excels in Monteverdi's Songs of Love and War ✍️ Stephen Pritchard bachtrack.com/review-monte...

Richard Wagner died OTD in 1883. Which are your favourite Wagner works? Here are ten of our editor’s... plus a fun bonus number: bachtrack.com/playlist-ric...

Schumann v Schumann, but it was Emilie Mayer who won this Kammerorchester Basel concert: bachtrack.com/review-lazar...

György Kurtág awarded honorary doctorate by the Liszt Academy bachtrack.com/news-gyorgy-...

Pierrot Lunaire revival at The Royal Ballet: highly expressive performances ✍️ Jonathan Gray bachtrack.com/review-pierr...

Schumann v Schumann: a surprise victor emerges between piano concerto play-off in Vienna ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-lazar...

The art of connection: @torontosymphony.bsky.social, Gimeno, Kopatchinskaja and Prohaska at the Wiener Konzerthaus ✍️ Chanda VanderHart bachtrack.com/review-gimen...

Shock, spectacle and endurance: Yuja Wang and Thomas Adès at full tilt with the LA Phil ✍️ Laurence Vittes bachtrack.com/review-ades-...

Norwegian National Ballet’s Hedda Gabler: intense physicality ✍️ Graham Watts bachtrack.com/review-hedda...

The spirit of music-making: Elgar at The Anvil @anvilarts.bsky.social @bfchorus.bsky.social ✍️ Eleanor Knight bachtrack.com/review-morga...

Shock, spectacle and endurance: Yuja Wang and Thomas Adès at full tilt with the LA Phil ✍️ Laurence Vittes bachtrack.com/review-ades-...

Minimalism and Romanticism: Budapest Festival Orchestra plays – and sings – at @carnegiehall.bsky.social ✍️ Susan Stempleski bachtrack.com/review-fisch...

Rarities surround Tchaikovsky favorite at the Philadelphia Orchestra @philorch.bsky.social ✍️ Cameron Kelsall bachtrack.com/review-payar...

Canadian Opera Company’s Barber of Seville proves as fresh as ever @canadianopera.bsky.social ✍️ John Gilks bachtrack.com/review-barbe...

Gemma was the Music Director for the Hamilton Philharmonic here Ontario, and she was wonderful!

Sweeping Rachmaninov and scorching Barber from the BBC Scottish in Edinburgh ✍️ Simon Thompson bachtrack.com/review-new-b...

Watery worlds and rhythmic fire from Brauß and Hickox with the BBC Philharmonic ✍️ Leighton Jones bachtrack.com/review-hicko...

Taken for a ride: an energetic revival of Così fan tutte at English National Opera ✍️ Dominic Lowe bachtrack.com/review-cosi-...

Fine Lindberg and Stravinsky double bill from the BBC Symphony ✍️ Roy Westbrook bachtrack.com/review-oramo...

Rubies, the central gem in Balanchine's Jewels, shines brightest in Vienna ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-jewel...

At home in Hamburg: Munich Philharmonic at the @elbphilharmonie.de ✍️ Mengguang Huang bachtrack.com/review-shani...

Met Orchestra brings a long neglected symphony back to life at @carnegiehall.bsky.social ✍️Susan Stempleski bachtrack.com/review-nezet...

Rockin' at the Rudolfinum: the Czech Phil plays Bryce Dessner ✍️ Frank Kuznik bachtrack.com/review-hrusa...

Domingo Hindoyan's warm Bruckner 6 beguiles Liverpool @liverpoolphil.bsky.social ✍️ Peter Connors bachtrack.com/review-hindo...

Man for all seasons: James Gaffigan goes transatlantic ✍️ @kevinng.bsky.social bachtrack.com/interview-ja...

“Proof that self-imposed constraint is no barrier to the creation of music of deeply satisfying beauty.” Bachtrack's review of our recent concert with Fretwork, an imaginative programme that stretched nearly 500 years of music. 🎻 @bachtrack.com @fretwork.bsky.social bachtrack.com/review-fretw...

Phoenix Lands: the London Philharmonic blazes with energy @lporchestra.bsky.social ✍️ Charlotte Gardner bachtrack.com/review-gardn...

Aušrinė Stundytė magnetic in Lille’s The Makropulos Case ✍️ David Karlin bachtrack.com/review-janac...

Opera by committee: Opera Philadelphia premieres Complications in Sue ✍️ Cameron Kelsall bachtrack.com/review-compl...

“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.” Ludwig van Beethoven: bachtrack.com/playlist-top...

Vampires, Disney and Donald Trump: Monster's Paradise in Hamburg ✍️ Kevin Ng bachtrack.com/review-neuwi...

Petrenko’s searing Shostakovich overshadows Grosvenor's elegant Beethoven @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social ✍️ Nick Boston bachtrack.com/review-petre...

Welcome to Bachtrack Editions, our monthly round-up of highlights: bachtrack.com/bachtrack-ed...

Irresistible: Justin Peck's latest, THE WIND-UP, to Beethoven's Eroica symphony. My review for @bachtrack.com bachtrack.com/review-nycb-...

Back in the spotlight: Palazzetto Bru Zane gives three women composers a new chance to shine ✍️ Elodie Olson-Coons bachtrack.com/interview-pa...

“There is but one god – Bach – and Mendelssohn is his prophet.” (Hector Berlioz) Felix Mendelssohn was born OTD in 1809. What are your favourite works he composed? bachtrack.com/playlist-fel...

The Ring returns to the Rhine: Götterdämmerung at La Scala ✍️ Laura Servidei bachtrack.com/review-gotte...

A relatively unknown work of his which I think is huge fun is "Die erste Walpurgisnacht."

Many of his choral works, but especially Lobgesang (aka Symphony No. 2), Op. 52, MWV A 18

Schumann from the inside out: Yunchan Lim and the Staatskapelle Dresden in Seoul ✍️ SangKwon Lee bachtrack.com/review-myung...

“There is but one god – Bach – and Mendelssohn is his prophet.” (Hector Berlioz) Felix Mendelssohn was born OTD in 1809. What are your favourite works he composed? bachtrack.com/playlist-fel...

Lyricism and drama from Maria Dueñas, Manfred Honeck and the @nyphilharmonic.bsky.social ✍️ Susan Stempleski bachtrack.com/review-honec...

François Leleux and Lisa Batiashvili play fire and ice with @thecbso.bsky.social ✍️ Robert Gainer bachtrack.com/review-leleu...

Pierre Bleuse and the Singapore Symphony raise the roof with Prokofiev and Mussorgsky ✍️ Chang Tou Liang bachtrack.com/review-bleus...

Barrie Kosky directs a ferocious new Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Komische Oper ✍️ Zenaida des Aubris bachtrack.com/review-lady-...

Dances without movement: Couperin reconsidered by Jean Rondeau at the Elbphilharmonie ✍️ Mengguang Huang bachtrack.com/review-jean-...

“Seared into the soul with a branding iron”: Winterreise from Allan Clayton and Paul Lewis at @wigmore-hall.org.uk, preceded by Austrian folk/rock band The Erlkings ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-schub...

Vampires, Disney and Donald Trump: Monster's Paradise in Hamburg ✍️ Kevin Ng bachtrack.com/review-neuwi...