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...
Christian Thielemann conducts the Vienna Philharmonic. Also included is Discovering Beethoven - Documentaries about Symphonies Nos. 4,5, & 6 with Joachim Kaiser. Included is legendary performance...
Shostakovich may have hidden a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5. After his opera Lady MacBeth was publically condemned as immoral by Pravda, the Soviet...