Bits & pieces put together to present a semblance of a whole.” Those words adorned the Walker Art Center’s east wall for several years, part of a piece of conceptual art by Lawrence Weiner. I found ...

Some big-time concertos, such as Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 are coming up in the next few months. I wonder, ...

Felix Mendelssohn’s 1844 Violin Concerto in e-minor was his last large orchestral work. Not only is it one of the most popular and frequently performed violin concertos of all time, it’s also regarded ...

Anyone who has ever been asked to name a favorite movie, play, song or novel will identify — and perhaps envy — this definitive, “top on the list” statement from classical violinist, Stefan Jackiw. “I ...

Itzhak Perlman plays the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London. Itzhak Perlman plays the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, conducted by ...

Sergey Khachatryan and the San Francisco Symphony, led by guest conductor David Afkham in his Symphony debut, deliver a poised Tchaikovsky Concerto and gripping Shostakovich 8.

It was a great weekend for Shostakovich and Prokofiev concertos at the Aspen Music Festival, with a fine smattering of other concerto-like pieces to liven up the proceedings. Augustin Hadelich never ...