On November 10, 1909 in New York City, Gustav Mahler sat down at a harpsichord and led the New York Philharmonic in a performance of his own arrangement of music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The great ...

Since he became the Leipzig Gewandhaus's Kapellmeister in 2005, Riccardo Chailly has been at pains to emphasise the music of the two composers most closely associated with the city: Mendelssohn and ...

Flautist honoured alongside Neville Marriner, with the evening’s top honour going to Riccardo Chailly’s recording of Brahms with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Tonight’s Gramophone classical music ...

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Riccardo Chailly: 'You need the energy to describe your impulses. If you don’t have this element - this eternal fire - then the whole thing has no reason to exist' We spoke about his love of ...

LUCERNE, Switzerland -- The Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly has a reputation, in America, as an also-ran. Over the years his name surfaced as a likely candidate in music director searches for the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly knows that Milan's legendary La Scala opera house, where he takes over as principal conductor in January, is a political and cultural pressure ...