Audio for this feature is no longer available. The album was released on Oct. 6, 2009. "It's an unkickable drug habit. And I'm happy to be a junkie until the end of my days." So says 54-year-old ...

Classical For an inviting foretaste of this week's two-night Davies Symphony Hall visit by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, you could hardly do better than their new box set featuring ...

These two DVDs present Berlin Philharmonic performances under the orchestra's last two principal conductors. Ironically, the older of the two, recorded in 1993 in the Berlin Philharmonie, is led by ...

In April 1989, the glamorously autocratic Herbert von Karajan resigned from his post as music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, the West German ensemble he had led for 35 years and made into the ...

Experience the power of Barenboim’s sublime musicality as he revisits Australia for the first time in nearly five decades. Over the first two nights you’ll hear a complete cycle of Brahms’ symphonies, ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Unless period instruments are involved, a new recording of Brahms symphonies today ranks almost as superfluous: there ...

Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra have won Gramophone's Recording of the Year 2014 for their recording of the Brahms symphonies. Chailly was presented with the Award by Sir Neville ...

The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSB) opened with Carl Maria von Weber’s “Oberon” Overture at the Seoul Arts Center on March 13, an ideal preamble to a night of flamboyant technique and refined ...

Experience the power of Barenboim’s sublime musicality as he revisits Australia for the first time in nearly five decades. Over the first two nights you’ll hear a complete cycle of Brahms’ symphonies, ...