Orchestral & Symphonic

The audience knows that the performance of a Mahler symphony is not only a musical experience, but is also emotionally effective' (Chailly). This counts especially for Mahler's enigmatic sixth symphony, an emotionally stirring challenge for both...

Unanimously acclaimed, Peter Sellars' new production of these two masterpieces was one of the great highlights of Gerard Mortier's season at the Teatro Real. The orchestra and cast, including Ekaterina Scherbachenko and Paul Groves, are lifted to rare...

The New York Philharmonic - America's preeminent symphony orchestra gave 'A Concert for New York' to mark the tenth anniversary of the events of 9/11. What work could be better suited to the occasion than Mahler's 'Resurrection' Symphony with it's...

Mahler 4 Blu-Ray

Lan Shui conducts the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in this seldom-heard completion of Mahler's Symphony No. 10 by American musicologist Clinton Carpenter live in Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore.

Don Quixote Blu-Ray

The Philharmonics, founded by members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, fill the Cafe Sperl with the most authentically Viennese sounds imaginable - this is music the players have in their blood.

Already brimming with symbols and transformations, the epic fairytale recounted by Strauss and his librettist Hofmannsthal in Die Frau ohne Schatten acquires a further allegorical dimension in Christoph Loy's inventive production for the Salzburg...

Abbado's approach to the music of Bruckner is soft and songlike, at times tense and urgent, but constantly filled with warmth of feeling" - not only the Neue Zurcher Zeitung is full of praise when Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra play...

Handel: Saul Blu-Ray

Evgeny Kissin and Nikolai Demidenko perform with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Antoni Wit at Warsaw's Philharmonic Hall on Feb. 27,2010.

This music is more serious and more significant than one had thought, the Berliner Zeitung summarized in it's review of Daniel Barenboim's celebrated Bruckner cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin. Bruckner's unfinished Symphony No. 9 brought to an end, in...