The Arts Videos

Visual and Musical Arts bring beauty into our lives. These stories explore and reveal the inspiration behind great artworks, the challenges to create them and their impact on the world.

Before he became conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen directed this interpretation of Jean Sibelius' Symphony No.

Before he became conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen directed this interpretation of Jean Sibelius' Symphony No.

Before he became conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen directed this interpretation of Jean Sibelius' Symphony No.

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was 63 years old - and living in Vienna - when he started to compose his oratorio, "The Creation" (known as "Die Schpfu...

What are the sounds of a mandolin?

Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Orchestra on the 15th of September, 2001 in honor of all who died four days before.

This clip is from The Agony and the Ecstasy, a 1965 film about the Italian artist Michelangelo and his incredible:sculptures (such as the Moses, David...

Beethovens Piano Sonata in C-sharp Minor, Opus 27, No.

Michael Levy, a musician who plays ancient Greek melodies on his lyre, has recently released a CD of "mystical, ancient lyre music.

One of the greatest musicians in Greece, Orpheus plays so beautifully that Eurydice (a wood nymph) is released from her tree-trunk domain.

This hauntingly beautiful work for cello, composed by the great cello virtuoso Pablo Casals, is entitled "Song of the Birds.

Beethoven premiered his Ninth Symphony on May 7, 1824 at the Krntnertortheater in Vienna.

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