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His label sold millions of records, but at the LSO he upset the players when he described them as ‘a beer-swilling crowd’

Hear Brahms and Rachmaninoff with Bignamini and Babayan this Friday.

Few 87-year-olds would have the stamina to conduct over 100 minutes of Mahler. Bernard Haitink, though, has always kept a steady, unruffled hand on the interpretative tiller, and if his way with the longest of all the symphonies, the Third, hasn't changed that much since his first recording made half a century ago with his Concertgebouw Orchestra, there's still reassurance in the sheer beauty of the music-making.

The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Elena Schwarz, in music by Tom Coult, Ravel and Weill.

Greatest living conductor lights the way as mentor in three days of musical excellence. Classical/opera feature by David Nice

Sheer perfection and personality in Mozart and Schumann. Classical review by David Nice

Bernard Haitink was the conductor of more than 450 recordings and his repertoire ranged widely from Bartók and Shostakovich to Mozart, Janáček and Debussy. Here are some of his finest moments on record

The Bard College Conservatory of Music presents the Bard Conservatory Orchestra with members of The Orchestra Now performing Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony, “Resurrection” conducted by music director Leon Botstein.

NATS selects 10 mentees to participate in its 2021-22 Mentoring Program for Composers.

As he took the stage before a crowded theater at the Oregon Symphony, acclaimed Austrian musical director David Danzmayr introduced the night’s performance to a masked audience. The feature of the night was Mahler’s Second Symphony, better known by its subtitle, “Resurrection.”    “We chose it tonig