Wynton Marsalis' rare musical versatility has long been a beacon in the worlds of jazz and classical music. Now the Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer brings those ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Performed on original instruments, the composer’s neoclassical works – particularly his Violin Concerto, brilliantly played by Isabelle Faust, come into sharper focus It was through their recordings ...

Try “Parade”, with its “cruel procession of talentless poseurs” and “crafty fakers of places and persons” delivered with a near-improvisatory swagger, making the reprise of the cycle’s opening fanfare ...

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 ...

“This is complete madness,” the maestro tells the orchestra. He glances to the soloist, the world-famous violinist Rachel Barton Pine, then says simply, “Let’s go.” You wouldn’t know from the title on ...