Canadian violinist James Ehnes couples Khachaturian's cheer-fully garrulous 1940 Violin Concerto with two of Shostakovich's finest string quartets, both written in 1960s: the Seventh, dedicated to the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. David Halen. Photo by Dilip Vishwanat St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concertmaster David Halen always has a place in the spotlight.

Armenian-Siberian violinist Mikhail Simonyan strode onto Oakland’s Paramount Theatre stage last Friday evening, tucked his violin under his chin, and proceeded unabashedly to win over his capacity ...

Born to Armenian parents in Tbilisi, Georgia, Aram Khachaturian was a favorite composer of Soviet Union authorities because he was world famous and wrote tuneful, accessible music that also reflected ...

What happens when you have hall and a producer reserved and ready to go, and your musical collaborator has to back out at the last minute? If you're violinist Rachel Barton Pine, you find a new ...

The program was enough to attract violin fanciers to the debut concert of 16-year-old violinist Jimmy Tagala Jr. The Beethoven and Khachaturian violin concertos couldn’t be more than challenging.

Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D, performed by David Oistrakh and the Stockholm Festival Orchestra, Sixten Ehrling conducting, Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D Minor, performed by Oistrakh and the ...

Most people would know the Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian for just one composition, the Sabre Dance from his Soviet ballet Gayaneh. The frenetic pace of the piece’s percussive melody makes it one ...

James Ehnes has released more than 30 discs since 2000, making a major mark in significant swathes of the concerto repertoire including the Elgar, the two Bartóks and Prokofievs, the Tchaikovsky, ...

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concertmaster David Halen always has a place in the spotlight. As concertmaster, the first of the first violins, he’s the last one out onstage before the conductor and the ...