For Peter and the Wolf, premiered in 1936, Prokofiev chose the form of a symphonic tale, featuring a narrator alongside the orchestra. A unique work in which each instrument embodies a character. Renaud Capuçon conducts the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, while Jean Reno takes on the role of narrator.

Ludwig van Beethoven headed for Symphony No. 9 literally his entire life. As early as the 1790s, he ...

Karajan conducts rehearsal and performance of Schubert's Symphony No. 4 with the Vienna Symphony in ...

Released as a memorial for the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who passed away on 27 Ap...

The production itself is quite beautiful: recorded in the Basilica di San Marco in Venice in Novembe...

For Mahlerites, his symphonies are much more than musical performances--they can be an emotional or ...

Karajan conducts these symphonies with eyes closed, often intently enraptured by the music, smiling ...

The renowned orchestra presents the world's biggest annual classical open air concert live from thei...

Chopin Year 2010 coincides with the 60th anniversary of Daniel Barenboims stage début, and as a pian...

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

In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performanc...

"Four Ways to Say Farewell" is a personal introduction to Mahler and his Ninth Symphony, during whic...

There are only a couple of DVD recordings of Mozart's Symphony No. 40. Fortunately, this one by Karl...

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s European Concert, held each year on 1 May, is invariably an internatio...

This large-scale live recording (Gardiner's second) was made in Venice's St Mark's Basilica. It capt...

Leonard Bernstein made these recordings during his wonderfully productive collaboration with the Wie...

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...