Herbert von Karajan conducts La Scala Orchestra and Chorus with soloists Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, Luciano Pavarotti, and Nicolai Ghiaurov.

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...

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

A comprehensive portrait of one of the 20th century's most brilliant and charismatic conductors work...

Steve Martin's fourth NBC special was in the spirit of his previous association with Saturday Night ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the 1960s Karl Böhm (1894–1981) had made his mark as interpreter of Mozart with the the Berlin Ph...

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

In the awe-inspiring Teatro Olimpico,Vicenza, Cecilia Bartoli, recognised as one of the best singers...