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.
Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. 1.Symphony no 1 in C ...
Between 1981 and 1984 Leonard Bernstein recorded nearly all of Brahmss orchestral works with the Wie...
There is hardly a better way to approach Ludwig van Beethoven than through his piano concertos. Beet...
In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keep...
This set was recorded in the late 1960s to early 1970s. Herbert von Karajan is widely acknowledged t...
Ever since his first visit to the magical Hall of Mirrors at Versailles Palace, superstar classical ...
Beginning with the First Symphony, Bernstein reveals Mahler's position at the hinge of modernism, wh...
Ludwig van Beethoven headed for Symphony No. 9 literally his entire life. As early as the 1790s, he ...
The evocative music of Claude Debussy has been described as the foundation of modern music. But how ...
Utopia, the new orchestra of conductor Teodor Currentzis, can be experienced for the first time in V...
Leonard Bernstein made these recordings during his wonderfully productive collaboration with the Wie...
Famed conductor Herbert Von Karajan leads the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of what may be Vi...
The production itself is quite beautiful: recorded in the Basilica di San Marco in Venice in Novembe...
"Four Ways to Say Farewell" is a personal introduction to Mahler and his Ninth Symphony, during whic...
Released as a memorial for the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who passed away on 27 Ap...
In the 1960s Karl Böhm (1894–1981) had made his mark as interpreter of Mozart with the the Berlin Ph...
Like many of John Adams’ operas, Doctor Atomic is based on recent world historical events—here, the ...