Founded in 1842, the Vienna Philharmonic is known for a unique structure that forgoes a music director or permanent conductor. This independence allows the orchestra to create its own sound.

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Ronald Zak/AP Photo) The most striking aspect of these Central European orchestras, from an American perspective, is the lack of Asians. Not a single Asian is to be ...

Performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Vienna under its conductor Vijay Upadhyaya, it was the music from a video game that made this strangely composed crowd rub shoulders ...

Disover The Delaunay Bar's ‘Fifth Season’ celebration with The Royal Philharmonic, taking inspiration from Austria ...

Igor Levit, piano; Vienna Philharmonic; Christian Thielemann ... the clarinets and bassoons are quietly humid before the full orchestra comes in with that slicing heat you want in Brahms.

The Berlin Philharmonic has many standouts. Stefan Dohr is one of the best horn players in the world, and one of the best, ...