Classical music meets Halloween and the paranormal Thursday night when the National Symphony Orchestra plays the Schumann Violin Concerto, a work buried for nearly a century and recovered — or so the ...

Performed by soloist Sandy Cameron conducted by John Mauceri, Elfman's album opens with his violin concerto in four movements: Grave – Animato, Spietato, Fratasma, and Giocoso – Lacrimae. The album ...

Augustin Hadelich is steeped in the repertoire of classical violin concertos and travels the globe to perform them with the world's major orchestras. The cosmopolitan violinist — born in Italy to ...

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 ...

The 1930s were a vibrant time for the violin, a fact that Gil Shaham is exploring in a characteristically vivacious and thoughtful series of recordings encompassing the concertos from that decade. On ...

"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 ...

Sir Edward Elgar, the Englishman who put English music back on the the international map early in the 20th century with his Enigma Variations, wrote his grand Violin Concerto in B-Minor in 1910. It ...

An arresting, decisive call to action from Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra launches a powerful performance of Dvoˇrák’s Violin Concerto, in which Julia Fischer is a soloist with a mix of strong projection ...

Two months ago at the Barbican in London, Lisa Batiashvili was the soloist in the UK premiere of the violin concerto that Magnus Lindberg completed for her last year. It seemed, then, to be a major ...

Yehudi Menuhin saw Schumann’s D minor Violin Concerto of 1853 as a missing link between Beethoven and Brahms. The reason it had been missing was that the great Hungarian virtuoso Joseph Joachim, whose ...

What: An Eclectic Evening with Robert McDuffie and R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, presented by the Aspen Music Festival and School Where: Benedict Music Tent When: Thursday, Aug. 11, 7 p.m. How much: $35-$60 ...

These concertos of baroque composer Josef Antonín Guretzky (1709-1769) are a joy! Picking a composer out of Moravian obscurity, the “Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen” have put down world ...