Five CSO music directors—Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Fritz Reiner, Artur Rodziński, and Sir Georg Solti—lead orchestral excerpts from operas by Beethoven, Copland, Mascagni, Rossini, and Strauss. The program closes with several selections from Wagner’s Ring cycle.

Were these composers doomed or divinely inspired? Decide for yourself!

Béla Bartók is a renowned composer, but let’s cast some light on his career as a pianist, in music he wrote as well as works by Beethoven and Debussy.

Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil lead Strauss’ Don Quixote, an epic tone poem that pits the infamous “Man of La Mancha” against a flurry of windmills and wizards, featuring the LA Phil’s Principal Cello Robert deMaine and Principal Viola Teng Li as soloists. Maria João Pires‘s performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4.

A program of Beethoven featuring his works for Strings and Piano.

Effortlessly sailing through its melodic yet meticulous runs, Inon Barnatan demonstrates why No. 25 ranks among Mozart’s top piano concertos.

Schubert’s epic Sixth Symphony is a rollercoaster of somberness, charm, serenity, and humor, with the wind section shining brightest here.

Beethoven’s Opus 132: a string quartet.

Giancarlo Guerrero leads Piazzolla’s Aconcagua Concerto for Bandoneón and Orchestra with Daniel Binelli, followed by Beethoven’s First Symphony. The broadcast closes with Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony under the baton of eighth music director Sir Georg Solti.

A 1945 recording of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, featuring conductor Bruno Walter and soloist Nathan Milstein who performed more than 70 concerts with the Orchestra.

In this broadcast, we hear Pierre Boulez conduct three French works: the score to the ballet La Péri by Paul Dukas, the Symphony No. 3 by Roussel, and the Mother Goose suite by Ravel. We’ll also hear Leonard Bernstein lead a performance of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto from the keyboard.

This music will stay with you—drawing you back to these pieces time and again.

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is a thriller and a longtime audience favorite.

Be transported to the Viennese countryside as Zubin Mehta and the LA Phil instill vivid and picturesque life into Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony.

Season Finale: Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the San Francisco Symphony in Beethoven’s expansive Symphony No. 3, Eroica, while pianist Igor Levit plays the composer’s Emperor Concerto.

Alan Gilbert conducts Brahms and Beethoven.

Kurt Masur conducts Dvořák and Beethoven.

Music and the struggle for freedom go hand in hand. The program pairs Beethoven overtures with two works championing freedom and social justice in our own country.

Part two of an exploration of a fruitful collaboration features works by Beethoven, Bloch, and Shostakovich.

On this New York Philharmonic broadcast, Beethoven’s first symphony will be followed by Symphony No. 7 in E major by Anton Bruckner. Kurt Masur is the conductor on this program and Alec Baldwin is your host.

An all-Beethoven program from the CSO’s Archives.

Across four programs, performers including violinist Paul Huang, pianist Alessio Bax, and the festival’s co-founders explore a range of chamber music rep.

Riccardo Muti conducts three of Beethoven’s works, beginning with his Coriolan Overture and followed by his eighth and fifth symphonies. Plus, the CSO Brass performs Barber’s Mutations from Bach, selections from Bach’s The Art of Fugue and Michael Tilson Thomas’s Street Song.

“The proportions alone are staggering,” says Grammy-winning conductor Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra.

An all-star cast: soprano Christine Brewer, mezzo-soprano Jane Henschel, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, and bass-baritone Eric Owens, and the New York Choral Artists directed by Joseph Flummerfelt.