After all the hype I tried to generate for Nicola Benedetti playing Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto, I thought it would be good to revisit some of the traditional violin concerto repertoire. I will ...

Are we in a golden age of violinists? It looks like it. That astonishing young players keep coming up the ranks and capturing the public’s imagination is nothing new. But what really seems to mark our ...

"It's a little piece called the Beethoven Violin Concerto," Pervinca Rista says, and then, underscoring the understatement, almost imperceptibly laughs. Beethoven's Violin Concerto, properly known as ...

Haydn, Violin Concertos, Midori Seiler, violin and conductor with the Concerto Koln. (Berlin Classics). Haydn’s music, though the work of a master, often has to be “sold” in a kind of special way. Our ...

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is one of the most loved and famous of all violin concertos. For this performance, virtuoso violinist Augustin Hadelich plays a 1744 Guarneri 'del Gesù' violin. Anton ...

This interview originally aired on April 21, 2021. We rebroadcast it on July 7, 2021. Gil Shaham/Eric Jacobsen and the Knights — Beethoven, Brahms: Violin Concertos (Canary Classics) Jump to CD ...

Sergey Khachatryan and the San Francisco Symphony, led by guest conductor David Afkham in his Symphony debut, deliver a ...

“This is complete madness,” the maestro tells the orchestra. He glances to the soloist, the world-famous violinist Rachel Barton Pine, then says simply, “Let’s go.” You wouldn’t know from the title on ...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor devotees are working to revive his music and legacy coinciding with the 150th anniversary of his ...

Auckland Philharmonia musician John Mietus is preparing to perform the well-known Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto in his ...

Two of the most famous names in the violin world — Stradivarius and Leopold Auer — will fold into the hands of Hungarian-born violinist and composer Edvin Marton on Saturday at the Plaza del Sol ...

The DeMarina Trio returns to Wesley Church Feb. 22 with a concert that mixes some well-known standards of the clarinet/violin/piano repertoire with something a bit unusual, at least for Western ears.