Performing Saint-Saëns’ concerto, Kim shows proficiency and poise, with the ability to make her notes angelic. Flawless as her bow leaps across strings, her fingers vigorously nailing each note of the ...

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 ...

Performances include music by Montgomery, Copland, Marquez, Saint-Saens and Brubeck. Performances include: Starburst (Montgomery), Quiet City (Copland), Danzon #2 (Marquez), Violin Concerto #3, 1st ...

The violin was Elgar’s own instrument and his Violin Concerto is almost like a personal confession: it was ‘too emotional’, Elgar admitted, adding that he loved it nonetheless. The Spanish inscription ...

Christian Tetzlaff performs Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under conductor Daniele Gatti. Beethoven's third symphony completes the programme. John Shea presents.

A little over a year ago, conductor Darko Butorac was in New York City taking in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of ...

Written in 1932-3, Concerto No. 2 is very different from the first one - primarily in the sparing use of technical means. Complicated harmony and chromatisms have given way to diatonics and modal ...

There is nothing new in the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrating John Williams, as the orchestra did for its annual opening-night gala at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Tuesday night. The orchestra has ...

Written in 1806, Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major was premiered by his colleague Franz Clement, just before Christmas of that year, on 23 December. Nine symphonies, five piano concertos, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As John Williams celebrates his 90th birthday this year, the music that he has written away from Hollywood has ...

Audiences love Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor for its warmth and frequent pyrotechnics. The concerto also features playful innovations that would have shocked—or delighted—the audience at ...

THE BASICS: The Buffalo Philharmonic (BPO) in concert, Leon Botstein, guest conductor, Melissa White, violin soloist, in Max Reger’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven, Op. 86; Florence ...