The 300-year-old Stradivarius violin that was taken from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster in an armed robbery is pictured in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in this February 6, 2014 handout photo ...

On Oct. 2, 4 and 5, global violin sensation Sarah Chang joins the Houston Symphony for a performance of Barber’s intensely lyrical Violin Concerto. The Korean-American violinist has been touted by The ...

Violinist Jennifer Koh performs Barber's Violin Concerto with the New York String Orchestra — an ensemble comprising gifted classical musicians ages 16 to 23 — on their annual late-December concert at ...

Given the great success of the Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber could have been forgiven for resting on his musical laurels in the late 1930s. But the American composer was having none of it: he set ...

The German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin plays Barber's Violin Concerto with the American violinist Randall Goosby. Ryan Bancroft leads the orchestra in a piece by Gabriella Smith inspired by the ...

What could be more romantic than being awakened by a birthday serenade played by 13 musicians on Christmas morning? That was Wagner’s gift to his beloved wife, Cosima. Gorgeous melodic lines, ...

Every now and then, a little wheeling and dealing goes into a new piece of music. That's especially true in the case of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, performed in concert here by James Ehnes at the ...

We’ve got the Parker boys on piano, and Isabel Bayrakdarian on voice—so the CBC was clearly in need of a poster boy for violin to add to its roster. Which is where James Ehnes comes in. In the past 11 ...

The violin concertos by William Walton and Samuel Barber are almost exactly contemporary – the Walton received its first performance in 1939, two years before the Barber – and they share not only a ...

Given the great success of the Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber could have been forgiven for resting on his musical laurels in the late 1930s. But the American composer was having none of it: he set ...