In his first recording as conductor, Pekka Kuusisto is insightful and in control, and Vilde Frang brings electricity to both concertos There are two violinists at work on this recording, and it ...

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 ...

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 ...

German violinist Anton Steck couples the Beethoven Violin Concerto with a work by the little-known violinist and composer Franz Alexander Pössinger, who appears to have been involved in editing the ...

Augustin Dumay follows in the great tradition of Franco-Belgian violinists, which can be traced back to such legendary figures as Eugène Ysaÿe, Henri Vieuxtemps, and Arthur Grumiaux. Here he tackles ...

THE BASICS: JoAnn Falletta conducts the first of a two-weekend Beethoven festival, featuring the BPO’s Concert Master, violinist Nikki Chooi in Beethoven’s Concerto in D major for Violin and Orchestra ...

Beethoven is lionized as a composer and artist. His music is treated with a reverence that can sometimes hide the intellect and passion he intended to convey to the audiences of his era. The first ...

Surprisingly Beethoven only wrote one violin concerto and it proved so popular that he transcribed it for the piano too Again, only one, and given its exceptional quality and the number of first-rate ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Isabelle Faust, Violin Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Claudio Abbado, Conductor Mozart Orchestra Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 'To the memory of an angel' Alban ...

A violin recital by Lyu Siqing will be staged at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing on Nov. 13. In memory of the 250th anniversary of the birth of composer and pianist ...

You’re in for a triple treat this Saturday evening, November 23, at 7:30 pm when the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra encores its BPO Classics Series Friday morning “Coffee Concert” at Kleinhans Music ...