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 ...

Flautist honoured alongside Neville Marriner, with the evening’s top honour going to Riccardo Chailly’s recording of Brahms with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Tonight’s Gramophone classical music ...

Riccardo Chailly is one of a select few conductors who are able to bring off ambitious concerts at Ravinia comparable to the finest work the Chicago Symphony Orchestra produces during the winter ...

With more than 250 years of music-making to its legacy, it is no surprise that the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra brings with it a real, unshakable sense of history. As chief conductor Riccardo Chailly ...

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 ...

The final Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert of the Ravinia Festival season brought yet another striking departure from the summer programming norm, courtesy of guest conductor Riccardo Chailly.

He was certainly at the top of mine. Who could be more desirable than a music director who balances musical maturity with the promise of a long career still ahead? He began primarily as an opera ...

In a classical music world that grows ever more globalised, conductor Riccardo Chailly cuts an old-fashioned figure. He is as European as they come: trained in Italy, with a distinguished composer for ...

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 ...