CLASSICAL MUSIC

Before becoming the most famous composer of his time, Handel gained a lifetime of experience in Italy. Welcomed by wealthy patrons, he traveled with the Scarlatti family and learned from Corelli and the masters of the Italian Style. Yoo returns to Italy to follow in ...

Join Scott Yoo in Spain and Morocco to discover the greatest composer you’ve never heard of: Domenico Scarlatti. He was the finest keyboard player in Europe, hired by the Queen of Spain as her personal instructor. Into Vivaldi’s melodies and Bach’s fugues, Scarlatti incorporated the ...

Scott travels to Madrid for a lesson in Scarlatti's greatest inspiration, Flamenco, from the great Ileana Gomez.

Scott Yoo heads to Germany to cross "play the Bach partitas for solo violin" off his bucket list, and play a duet with renowned concert pianist Alice Sara Ott.

In the series premiere, Scott Yoo crosses Northern Italy, chasing the story of one of the most recorded pieces of music in the world, Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons,” and discovers how the composer merged religious melodies, opera and a new level of violin playing to ...

In commemoration of the 2013 Verdi bicentennial, Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic perform Verdi’s towering Requiem Mass at the Hollywood Bowl in California. The maestro shares his enthusiasm for the iconic venue, the largest natural amphitheater in the country, and for ...

Gustavo Dudamel can describe Verdi's Requiem as passionately as he conducts it. "The theatrical elements of this piece is incredible," he says in this interview that includes rehearsal footage. Using his hands, growls and poetic descriptions, Dudamel conveys the intense emotions of the music. Watch ...

Set in the Vienna palace garden, the Vienna Philharmonic program celebrates Richard Strauss' 150th birthday with piano virtuoso Lang Lang and symphonic poems by Berlioz and Strauss.

The acclaimed outdoor performance celebrating the 200th anniversary of Verdi’s birth is interspersed with archival footage and features Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Master Chorale and internationally acclaimed soloists Julianna Di Giacomo, Michelle DeYoung, Vittorio Grigolo and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo. Airs ...

Julie Andrews hosts this annual New Year's Day celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic. Daniel Barenboim conducts a program of melodies by the Strauss family and their contemporaries. The City Palace (Stadtpalais Liechtenstein), which has returned to all its former glory after a renovation, is the ...