In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performance uniting some of the world's most spellbinding opera singers and conductors. The event includes a ballet from Samson et Dalila and boasts incredible classical performances from Kathleen Battle, Plácido Domingo, Jose Carerras, Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Horne, Leona Mitchell, Luciano Pavarotti and many more.

For their annual season end concert, the Berliner Philharmoniker take the audience on a dreamy, magi...

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...

With nearly 450 years of tradition, the Staatskapelle Berlin is one of the oldest orchestras in the ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

From the very first bars of the Coriolan Overture, it is apparent that this is Beethoven at his very...

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

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

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