A childhood collection of some 12,000 CDs helped shape Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor and director of three major orchestras, into the musician he is today. "I would go to a record store and buy CDs ...

On April 15, 2025, The Philadelphia Orchestra, under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, presented Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony at Carnegie Hall in a performance defined by its precision, ...

The foray of the Met Orchestra under Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin into the concert hall the other night—Carnegie Hall to be specific, during its “Fall of the Weimar” series—was in some ways ...

Hilary Hahn returns to Philadelphia for Korngold's Violin Concerto. This colorful and cinematic score stemmed from his success in Hollywood writing many treasured film soundtracks. Trademark fanfares, ...

In Maestro, director, actor, and co-screenwriter Bradley Cooper’s magnetic new film, the multi-hyphenate tackles the topic of Leonard Bernstein with the same zeal the late composer-conductor put into ...

After his stupendous leadership of Wagner's "Das Rheingold" on European tour last summer, I vowed I'd never say another bad word about Yannick Nezet-Seguin. The release of his "Beethoven Symphonies" ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philly hasn't heard anything like our Grammy- Award winning Philadelphia Orchestra this upcoming season! Under the dynamic leadership of Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet ...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin is a conductor operating at triple tempo, at once the director of three major orchestras—in Philadelphia; in his hometown of Montreal and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, ...

The Mahler Third is the longest symphony, at least in the standard repertoire. But we should not make too much of length: it is one of the greatest works of music we have. Is it your favorite Mahler ...