Bachtrack is a London-based international online magazine which publishes listings of classical music, opera, ballet and dance, as well as reviews of these genres, interviews and general feature articles.
History
Bachtrack Ltd was registered on 3 December 2007 by David Karlin and Alison Karlin.
The website bachtrack.com was launched in January 2008, the following month.
Bachtracks event finder initially covered the UK only. In 2009, coverage expanded to include the US and Europe.
In July 2010, Bachtrack was named as no. 5 in Classical Music magazine's top ten Web Winners.
Later in 2010, Bachtrack started publishing reviews of classical music to accompany its listings database. In 2013, a redesigned site permitted operation in French and German, with some original content written in those languages. Spanish was added the following year; however, the main language of the site remains English.
Database of event listings
Bachtracks database of forthcoming performances covers events worldwide, although coverage varies by country, with the UK generally having the largest number of events listed. The content is crowdsourced, with many listings input by users, who are often the promoters of the event.
Annual classical music statistics
Every January,
Bachtrack publishes statistics about the performances listed in its database for the previous year.
[ Bachtrack: Lenny Bernstein and Women Composers: the Bachtrack Classical Music Statistics for 2018 07 January 2019, bachtrack.com, accessed 16 January 2019] These receive widespread media attention across the world, in many publications including
The New York Times,
,
,
,
Clásica FM Radio,
and
Izvestia.
Reviews
Bachtrack publishes reviews of concerts, opera, ballet and dance performances in a large number of countries, claiming to have published its 10,000th review in December 2016.
s reviews are referred to by other arts publications
and performers' websites.
Articles
In addition to reviews,
Bachtrack publishes general articles including previews of festivals and concert/opera seasons, as well as interviews with performers and industry figures. A number of interviews have sparked interest in the general media, including soprano
Lisette Oropesa's statement that she needed to lose weight in order to be cast in the roles she wanted,
and tenor
Stuart Skelton's comments about English National Opera.
