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

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

Utopia, the new orchestra of conductor Teodor Currentzis, can be experienced for the first time in V...

For Mahler, symphonies always were a means of interpreting the most convoluted philosophical problem...

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

Beginning with the First Symphony, Bernstein reveals Mahler's position at the hinge of modernism, wh...

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

"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...

Leonard Bernstein made these recordings during his wonderfully productive collaboration with the Wie...

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...

Carlin returns to the stage in his 13th live comedy stand-up special, performed at the Beacon Theatr...

In this variety special, Olivia shares the evening with Andy Gibb, Elton John, Ted Knight, Gene Kell...

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

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

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...

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

This unique document from the 1978 Salzburg Festival has fortunately been released on DVD and is a m...