The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra should know all there is to know about Beethoven's nine symphonies. For a start, they're one of the oldest orchestras in the world, and even more importantly, they ...

Conductor Riccardo Chailly is at the height of his powers, so why is he determined to slow down? He tells Fiona Maddocks about leaving Leipzig’s Gewandhaus and his return to La Scala, Milan “The sound ...

Decca Classics is proud to announce the renewal of its longstanding exclusive recording contract with the great Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly. Projects under discussion in the new five-year ...

Classic FM's Tim Lihoreau has been speaking to the Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly all about the Gewandhausorchester's performance of Beethoven's symphonies at London's Barbican Hall. This week saw ...

LUCERNE, Switzerland — The Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly has a reputation, in America, as an also-ran. Over the years his name surfaced as a likely candidate in music director searches for the ...

On November 10, 1909 in New York City, Gustav Mahler sat down at a harpsichord and led the New York Philharmonic in a performance of his own arrangement of music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The great ...

Riccardo Chailly is a native of Milan and made his conducting debut in 1978 Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly has been named as new musical director of Milan opera house La Scala. The 60-year-old ...

The Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly began his career as an opera conductor before making his name as a formidable conductor of symphony orchestras. Chailly was born in Milan on February 20th 1953 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The hype that has surrounded Riccardo Chailly’s arrival at La Scala is evidently well founded. As principal conductor ...

The La Scala conductor talks about the controversy that has greeted its revival of the 'racist' ballet ‘La Bayadère’ Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works ...