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.

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

Daniel Barenboim is an expert in exploiting the impact of cyclical performances of composers works: ...

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

Live 1973 concert performances by celebrated Polish-American virtuoso concert pianist Arthur Rubinst...

Almost any recording of a Mozart symphony by Austrian conductor Karl Bohm (1894-1981) is a sure thin...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

For Peter and the Wolf, premiered in 1936, Prokofiev chose the form of a symphonic tale, featuring a...

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...

The Waldbühne in Berlin, one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheatres on the European continent, ...