For Mahlerites, his symphonies are much more than musical performances--they can be an emotional or spiritual journey through the struggles, fears, and triumphs of life. This Sixth Symphony is a 1976 performance in the Vienna Musikvereinssaal with PCM stereo and DTS 5.1. The 2 dvd set also includes the 4th and 5th symphonies, which are performed as magnificently as the Sixth.

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

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

In April 1981 violinist Gidon Kremer performed Vivaldi's Four Seasons leading the English Chamber Or...

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

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

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...

The renowned orchestra presents the world's biggest annual classical open air concert live from thei...

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

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...

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

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

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

Released as a memorial for the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who passed away on 27 Ap...

For Peter and the Wolf, premiered in 1936, Prokofiev chose the form of a symphonic tale, featuring a...