This set was recorded in the late 1960s to early 1970s. Herbert von Karajan is widely acknowledged to be one of the finest conductors of the 20th century, and around 1970 he was at his peak.
Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. 1.Symphony no 1 in C ...
The renowned orchestra presents the world's biggest annual classical open air concert live from thei...
In the ancient theater of Delphi, against the backdrop of the ruins of the Temple of Apollo, musicAe...
Guiseppe Verdi’s Requiem is still heard mainly in theatre and concert halls. However, the author him...
In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performanc...
The evocative music of Claude Debussy has been described as the foundation of modern music. But how ...
For their annual season end concert, the Berliner Philharmoniker take the audience on a dreamy, magi...
Every year, the Berliner Philharmoniker hold a kind of classical-music fête with a bright, cheerful ...
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Almost any recording of a Mozart symphony by Austrian conductor Karl Bohm (1894-1981) is a sure thin...
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s European Concert, held each year on 1 May, is invariably an internatio...
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 ...
In Anton Bruckner’s 7th Symphony, the listener encounters a music characterized by great spaciousnes...
There is hardly a better way to approach Ludwig van Beethoven than through his piano concertos. Beet...
In the 1960s Karl Böhm (1894–1981) had made his mark as interpreter of Mozart with the the Berlin Ph...
These recordings, filmed in March and April 1974 for the BBC, occurred at the tail end of the old pe...
Beginning with the First Symphony, Bernstein reveals Mahler's position at the hinge of modernism, wh...