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The BBC’s announcement of its decision to shutter the BBC Singers, and to aim for 20% redundancies in its English orchestras, has attracted criticism.

The LSO has launched a welcome initiative to aid musicians to pursue postgraduate study – often the most expensive, and most decisive, part of young musicians’ training.

We are devastated to learn of the death of Matthew Rye, one of our regular Bachtrack writers.

Beginning in 2008, co-founder David Karlin explores Bachtrack’s first fifteen years of highlighting the best in classical music.

In 2022 we listed over 27,000 events! Our exclusive data provides valuable insight into what has changed in the classical music world over the past year.

For dance companies, the National Portfolio funding for 2023-26 reveals many new names, with winners for diversity and disability and losers for established companies in London.

An overwhelming feeling of “could have been worse” as orchestras receive the long-awaited news of their Arts Council funding.

Arts Council England have issued multiple funding reductions to contemporary music organisations across England, with some seeing total reductions in funding.

Keep checking here to find out what news is reaching us about classical music events around the world.

Our latest changes to the video search indicate paid-vs-free listings and give you new ways of narrowing down your search and sorting the results.

Spain has restarted and mantained musical activity with no interruptions from June. We've talked to orchestras' and theatres' managers to find out how this has been possible.

This month, we look at how live performance is faring outside Europe. The situations in Asia and the Americas could not be more different.

Cancellations, programme changes, safety measures on and off the stage: we give a snapshot of how musical Europe is living with the coronavirus.

Jenny Camilleri reports from Amsterdam on the response to the pandemic in the Netherlands, where the 1.5 metre rule is sacred.

This year's Ravenna Festival and Rossini Opera Festival will go ahead – albeit in modified format and with strict social distancing enforced.

Bachtrack’s operations will be reduced while the Covid-19 pandemic persists. Founders David and Alison Karlin explain what’s happening.

Is classical music getting more flexible? We take our usual January dive into last year's database, revealing plenty of continuity (spoiler: the winner is Beethoven) as well as some promising trends.

We look back at 2018 to view the most performed composers and find some surprising entrants in the top 10. We survey the situation for women composers across the world and discover that life for some is far easier than for the rest.

German Felix Mildenberger takes first prize at the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition: here is how it all went down.

January is the time for us to look back at 2017 and discover what has changed about the repertoire and performers who graced our concert halls. If you enjoy statistics, take a look at our picks.

Here is a selection of Top 10s for those who like lists and statistics. Where there is more than one item on a single line it means that each item has the same number of appearances.Top 10 contemporary composers1. Arvo Pärt 2. John Williams 3. John Adams 4. György Kurtág 5. Steve Reich 6. Philip Glass 7. James MacMillan 8. Jörg Widmann 9. Luca Luciano 10.

Some people crack open the Champagne to launch the New Year, but here at Bachtrack Towers the corks have barely popped before we dive into the classical music statistics for the year just ended.

On the occasion of our 10,000th review, raise a glass, please, ladies and gentlemen, to the health of our wonderful Bachtrack reviewers

Dominique Meyer, the Staatsoper's General Manager, paid tribute to Botha before last night's performance. 

The London Symphony Orchestra doesn’t rest on its laurels. A century of world-class music making has earned it a global reputation for performances of the core classics. But the orchestra also has a commitment to new works and emerging composers, showcasing the music of today and nurturing the music of tomorrow.

Who were the classical movers and shakers of 2015? We've rounded up our listings for last year, looking for any emerging patterns or trends.

JoAnn Falletta has been voted the World’s Favourite Conductor in our September poll, while the RTE Concert Orchestra scoops the Orchestral prize. 

Which are the greatest orchestras and conductors according to the professional critics? Bachtrack presents the top ten orchestras in the world.

Following our preview of the 2015 BBC Proms season, we asked our reviewers who'll be helping cover the season for Bachtrack for their top 3 recommendations. A rich and varied bunch (both the recommendations and the reviewers!) emerged, with pride of place going to... the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Of all the classical music festivals in the world, the Proms is the grandfather of them all. Here's our guide to the pick of the 2015 season. 

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Visitors to Milan's Expo site will be bowled over by the scale of it all. The New York Times recently voted Milan the number must go destination for 2015 - with so much happening in the city, who could argue? 

Voice competitions attract singers like moths to a flame, but what can they hope to achieve by competing and how great are the dangers of getting their wings burnt? 

A report from the Teatro alla Scala, where Academy students took to the stage for a celebratory graduation evening. 

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In the wake of the publicity surrounding our annual statistics round-up, we've been inundated with requests for more information here at Bachtrack Headquarters! So who was the busiest violinist? The most active opera chorus?

Each January, Bachtrack publishes statistics for its listings for the year just ended. Who are the most performed composers? The busiest orchestras? The most popular operas?

In the fall-out from the ‘Dumpygate’ saga surrounding critical reaction to Glyndebourne’sDer Rosenkavalier, critic-bashing has enjoyed renewed vigour. Using the incident to promote a ‘Battle of Ideas’ debate on the value of music critics and the role they play piqued my interest in attending Saturday’s Free Stage event at the Barbican.

Kathryn Gaubatz, the funny, kind and tireless force behind early music in Florida passed away on Friday 10th October and I have lost a friend. 

Following Plácido Domingo in 2009 and Riccardo Muti in 2011, this year's Birgit Nilsson Prize was awarded to the Vienna Philharmonic, an orchestra with which Nilsson had a long and fruitful relationship. 

Beating the big beasts of the orchestral jungle, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has been voted the winner in Bachtrack’s World’s Favourite Orchestra 2014 poll.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s triumph in our World’s Favourite Orchestra poll may – at first glance – raise a few eyebrows. What is a sleepy seaside town like Bournemouth doing snatching the crown from reigning champions Cleveland, a much bigger outfit?

From 15th September to 6th October 2014 we ran a campaign to find the World's Favourite Orchestra. Here are the results. 

The final week of the BBC Proms has crept up on us – it’s amazing to think how Elgar’s The Kingdom opened the season just seven weeks ago! Some of the most enticing fare has been left until last, with three of the world’s ‘biggest hitting’ orchestras visiting Kensington this week.

Celebrations of Richard Strauss’ 150th anniversary at the BBC Proms reach a frenzied peak this weekend with concert performances of two of his most performed operas. 

It’s Week 6 at the BBC Proms and passport control is in overdrive with visiting orchestras! This week sees the Iceland Symphony and the Seoul Philharmonic make their Proms debuts, which should generate much excitement.

Week 5 at the BBC Proms brings two concerts continuing the commemoration of the outbreak of the First World War, plus some decibel-busting Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. 

Week 4 at the BBC Proms brings unusual repertoire, a conductor in an unfamiliar guise and the return of a popular orchestra.

As commemorations take place to mark the centenary of the start of the First World War, one of the highlights of the Proms season occurs on Sunday, with the War Horse Prom.

The 2014 BBC Proms season is well under way. Read our editor's pick of the second week at the Proms here.