Conductors Archive

Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven & Haydn This recording is quite unusual because we get to hear music that is rarely performed. This includes a transcription for string orchestra of Beethoven’s string quartet Op. 135, and …

Mahler’s disappointment Back around 1961 I relocated from Colorado to Minneapolis to start my career after getting my undergraduate degree. One of the first things I did after arriving in a city where I did …

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Orchestra bring their amazing energy to one of the masterpieces of the orchestral repertoire – Beethoven’s mighty Symphony No.3, the “Eroica”. Beethoven’s third symphony is …

Boulez’s Mahler Pierre Boulez conducts Mahler Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (12 songs, complete) Magdalena Kožená & Christian Gerhaher Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major – Adagio Performed by the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Pierre …

Bela Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra I listened to this amazing music carefully again last night. The recorded performance was coupled with a documentary that I also found quite interesting because it presented the historical aspects …