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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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