A look at the activities of the Tanglewood Music Center, America's renowned summer Academy for talented musicians, singers, composers and conductors.

Known for his mournful "Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaim...

Elmer Fudd introduces two pieces of classical music: "Tales of the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danub...

The pianist Kyra Steckeweh and the filmmaker Tim van Beveren search for traces where Countess Dora P...

There is hardly a better way to approach Ludwig van Beethoven than through his piano concertos. Beet...

After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer...

One of the first US born conductors to receive worldwide fame, Leonard Bernstein is an exceptional c...

The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than paro...

The young Clara creeps downstairs on Christmas Eve to play with her favourite present – a Nutcracker...
In 1985, cameras take a look inside the Berkshire Music Center, the most prominent pre-professional ...

Every year, the Berliner Philharmoniker hold a kind of classical-music fête with a bright, cheerful ...

Repertoire Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain; Antonín Dvořák: Song to the Moon from “Rusalk...

Anton Bruckner’s 6th Symphony was written between 1879 and 1881: a very happy time in his life. Unli...

“Clarity was one thing that made this performance a marvel. Another was the flexibility of Barenboim...

Recently diagnosed with ADHD, a symphony conductor uses the career shutdown of the 2020 pandemic to ...

Valery Gergiev is widely recognised as the greatest modern interpreter of Tchaikovsky’s music and th...

Surely Bach’s French Suites, which he composed during his years at Cöthen (1717–1723), are among the...

In Anton Bruckner’s 7th Symphony, the listener encounters a music characterized by great spaciousnes...