Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Today it’s one of the most well-loved violin concertos, but it wasn’t so popular at first... Violinist ...

"I would say that this recording was something that didn't get affected by COVID. It was the last thing that I actually, so to say, did before the lockdown." That's Midori talking about her new ...

A fascinating study in comparisons, and an auspicious DG debut for Vadim Repin and Riccardo Muti. Muti’s conducting of the Concerto is leisurely, at times even a mite imperious, though always flexible ...

“As close as I get to having a religious experience through music,” is how Thomas Gould has described playing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. The lanky, long-haired violinist has become a familiar figure ...

This is a recording with an intelligent difference. At first the opening bars startle, as their four repeated kettledrum-strokes are tapped out with a much firmer stick than usual. Then, as the long ...

We rank the all-time great, most stirring violin concertos… from Bruch and Beethoven, to Mozart and Marsalis, here are the very best. The violin is one of the most expressive instruments in the ...

Beethoven wrote 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets and nine symphonies, but only one violin concerto. It happens to be one of the greatest ever. Lucky , a fiddler born in Tokyo and raised in New ...

In this DW Festival Concert, violinist Augustin Hadelich performs Beethoven's complex Violin Concerto in D Major. Inspired to create contemporary music that reflects the challenges of the age, from ...

LENOX — A torrential rainstorm lashed the southern Berkshires two and a half hours before the first Boston Symphony Orchestra concert of the Tanglewood 2024 season, turning the roads into rivers and ...

There's something extra- special about the way Isabelle Faust and Claudio Abbado bring a sense of tentative wonder and discovery to the opening of the Berg Violin Concerto. The Berg bridges many ...

András Keller’s orchestra offers intensity, finesse and sheer dramatic sweep, from Tchaikovsky’s infernal tragedy to a ...

In the DW Festival Concert, violinist Augustin Hadelich performs Beethoven's complex Violin Concerto in D Major. When Beethoven's music was considered 'peculiar' (Fotolia/ Thorsten Schmitt ) Inspired ...