Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page Unsuk Chin was inspired by Leonidas Kavakos to return to the genre, and the result comes to Carnegie Hall on Monday. By David Allen ...

In 1941, the Philadelphia Orchestra premiered a new violin concerto by West Chester-born composer Samuel Barber. The piece is ...

Henryk Wieniawski composed the "Violin Concerto in F sharp minor" in 1853. Its premiere took place on 27th October 1853 in Leipzig, with Wieniawski playing the solo part, accompanied by the famous ...

Discover Mendelssohn's lesser-known violin music in the context of his brilliant Violin Concerto in E minor. Drive Featured Album 28 January 2013. Mendelssohn's Violin Concertos are rarely anything ...

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 ...

The Australian Chamber Orchestra and Richard Tognetti present an unmissable album of Bach concertos. Bach is food for the soul, and this collection of four concertos explores the warmth, intimacy and ...

The mysterious story of the discovery of Schumann's only violin concerto. In March 1933, Baron Erik Kule Palmstierna – Sweden’s ambassador to London and an avid psychic researcher – was hosting a ...

Jazz great Wynton Marsalis, a virtuoso trumpet player and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, has written — wait for it — a violin concerto. As the daughter of the late virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg ...

Past winners and laureates of the Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition include Ginette Neveu, Ida Haendel, David and Igor Oistrakh, Keiko Urushihara, Piotr Janowski, Alena Baeva, Agata ...

— Albert Einstein In 1932, the 16-year-old Menuhin became the first to record Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto with the composer conducting, a recording that has never been out of print. At 18 and 19, ...