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

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...

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

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

Between 1981 and 1984 Leonard Bernstein recorded nearly all of Brahmss orchestral works with the Wie...

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

The Süddeutsche Zeitung summed up this highly acclaimed performance of Bruckner's monumental Fifth S...

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

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...

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

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, ...

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

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

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