In 1966, the conductor arrived in Vienna with a mission: to restore Gustav Mahler’s place in 20th-century music.

To play Beethovens music is to give oneself over completely to the childspirit which lived in that grim awkward violent man Without that utter submission it is impossible to play the Adagio of the ...

In Viennas Musikverein Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic ... performance of his Piano Concerto No 1 in C Major Maestro Bernstein conducts the orchestra from the keyboard in this ...

For much of the 20th century, the world of classical conducting was dominated by two figures: Herbert von Karajan and Leonard ... Bernstein that took place in the Blue Bar of the Hotel Sacher in ...