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.
A festive event marking the 10th anniversary of the Czech Republic's accession to the European Union...
Performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by J. Bělohlávek. Slavonic Dances are among ...
Chopin Year 2010 coincides with the 60th anniversary of Daniel Barenboims stage début, and as a pian...
In April 1981 violinist Gidon Kremer performed Vivaldi's Four Seasons leading the English Chamber Or...
"Four Ways to Say Farewell" is a personal introduction to Mahler and his Ninth Symphony, during whic...
Released as a memorial for the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who passed away on 27 Ap...
Every year, the Berliner Philharmoniker hold a kind of classical-music fête with a bright, cheerful ...
Leonard Bernstein made these recordings during his wonderfully productive collaboration with the Wie...
Karajan conducts rehearsal and performance of Schubert's Symphony No. 4 with the Vienna Symphony in ...
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s European Concert, held each year on 1 May, is invariably an internatio...
The Süddeutsche Zeitung summed up this highly acclaimed performance of Bruckner's monumental Fifth S...
This large-scale live recording (Gardiner's second) was made in Venice's St Mark's Basilica. It capt...
For their annual season end concert, the Berliner Philharmoniker take the audience on a dreamy, magi...
There is hardly a better way to approach Ludwig van Beethoven than through his piano concertos. Beet...
Ludwig van Beethoven headed for Symphony No. 9 literally his entire life. As early as the 1790s, he ...
For Mahler, symphonies always were a means of interpreting the most convoluted philosophical problem...
Utopia, the new orchestra of conductor Teodor Currentzis, can be experienced for the first time in V...
In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performanc...
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...