Written in 1806, Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major was premiered by his colleague Franz Clement, just before Christmas of that year, on 23 December. Nine symphonies, five piano concertos, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An inspired coupling together with A-list casting make this disc a must. In a booklet note Isabelle Faust pays due homage to the artistry of Claudio Abbado, but it works both ways. These performances ...

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Pinchas Zukerman, the second program of the three-weekend 2017 Winter Festival, January 20-22 in Princeton, Newark and ...

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 ...

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Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major Opus 61 was written in 1806, but was not a success at its premiere. 200 years on and this Concerto is regarded as one of the greatest pieces ever written for the ...

Christian Tetzlaff plays the solo part in Beethoven's (1770-1827) magisterial Violin Concerto—the last installment of our weeklong look at classic fiddle concertos. He joins the German Symphony ...

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 ...