Conductors Archive

This recording invites us to study six symphonies from Haydn’s ‘Sturm und Drang’ period. Daniel Barenboim had been conducting the English Chamber Orchestra for 20 years when he made the first of the three LPs newly …

After “Don Giovanni”, “Così fan tutte” and “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” this is the fourth of DG’s series of seven Mozart operas conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and initiated by Rolando Villazón, Festspielhaus Baden Baden, …

It seems that the Ninth is a limit. He who wants to go beyond it must pass away. Those who have written a Ninth stood too close to the hereafter.’ Arnold Schoenberg wrote those …

Conductor Seiji Ozawa showered praise on his orchestra during maestro’s Dec. 5 comeback performance after overcoming his serious illness. With Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in attendance, the audience applauded Ozawa’s first public performance since …

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony bring excellent storytelling and musicality to their latest recording of Berlioz’s dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette. With a narrative that Berlioz deemed “too beautiful, too musical” to …