A couple in North London have committed their future to helping you find the music you love, on the web.
In the back bedroom of a detached house in Muswell Hill, in the shadow of Alexandra Palace, a small international miracle has been taking place.

It is being wrought by a married couple, David and Alison Karlin, and is already changing the way classical music lovers get their fixes, and it could change the way we book all our entertainment.

Bachtrack is what they have created, a listing website but so much more than that.

Bachtrack will find a concert by your favourite composer, ballet or opera of your choice anywhere in the UK, and the United States, and moving into Europe.

The site will also find you CDs and help you buy them as well as book tickets for venues in the UK.

But dig deeper and you find reviews by young people, snippets of music as tasters of concerts and recordings before you decide, and archive information on subjects of interest, such as biographies of composers. It is unique, and probably could not be copied, so intricate is its bespoke design.

It all started a little more than two years ago when, weary of corporate life, David Karlin left Sage where had had been head of research and development “to take a break and think for what I could do next” - 25 years ago he had built the first home business computer for Clive Sinclair.

He and Alison, a City stockbroker before she married and had children, discussed projects they could do together, and they came up with something that could make commercial sense as well.

David had been surrounded by music in his childhood home, drifted to jazz in his teen years and to folk at university, where he became a competent guitarist. His chief musical love now is opera. As a mum, Alison found that there was little live music for kids who were not good enough or inclined to be in the school orchestra, and among other things started a “kitchen band” for their two children’s primary school pals. Together, the Karlins had experienced the frustration of trying to book music on line, and realised that here was their joint venture.