Sergey Khachatryan and the San Francisco Symphony, led by guest conductor David Afkham in his Symphony debut, deliver a ...

JoAnn Falletta conducts the first of a two-weekend Beethoven festival, featuring the BPO’s Concert Master, violinist Nikki ...

Violinist Gregory Walker didn’t know his famous composer father was writing a piece of music just for him until after it was finished. “Dad’s not really a collaborative temperament,” said Walker, ...

Are we in a golden age of violinists? It looks like it. That astonishing young players keep coming up the ranks and capturing the public’s imagination is nothing new. But what really seems to mark our ...

"It's a little piece called the Beethoven Violin Concerto," Pervinca Rista says, and then, underscoring the understatement, almost imperceptibly laughs. Beethoven's Violin Concerto, properly known as ...

Not much has changed in this dynamic over the years: the composer wants to write something that works well for the instrument ...

This interview originally aired on April 21, 2021. We rebroadcast it on July 7, 2021. Gil Shaham/Eric Jacobsen and the Knights — Beethoven, Brahms: Violin Concertos (Canary Classics) Jump to CD ...

Haydn, Violin Concertos, Midori Seiler, violin and conductor with the Concerto Koln. (Berlin Classics). Haydn’s music, though the work of a master, often has to be “sold” in a kind of special way. Our ...

Audio for this feature is no longer available. Her new CD, released Sept. 21, is an unusual pairing of two concertos -- one warhorse and one freshly minted -- which may, on the surface, seem like ...

“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 ...

The DeMarina Trio returns to Wesley Church Feb. 22 with a concert that mixes some well-known standards of the clarinet/violin/piano repertoire with something a bit unusual, at least for Western ears.