The Symphony’s premiere on December 22, 1808, was part of a frigid four-hour affair in which audience members heard piece after piece while shivering in Vienna’s Theater an der Wien.

The 11-piece orchestra, formed in Vienna, Austria, in 1998, has performed a total of 344 concerts using specially-made instruments, such as a carrot recorder, a cucumberphone, radish bass flute ...

It had been a decade and a year since the Vienna Philharmonic came our way to remind us how, for this storied ensemble of like-minded musicians, the medium can be magically both the message and ...