They may have sensed, as well, that acoustical challenges are not the only difficulty rock-fusion works pose. Rock fans often hear the results as watered down, while classical listeners hear them as ...

Just how hard is it to make Mozart’s splendid music sound like, well, Mozart? “It’s always a challenge to bring forward, in the best way possible, the simple beauty of Mozart and make it work,” says ...

Classical violinists turned YouTubers Brett Yang and Eddy Chen (aka TwoSet Violin) collaborated with the virtual platform Moment House to broadcast a world tour virtually on December 28. Image: ...

We rank the all-time great, most stirring violin concertos… from Bruch and Beethoven, to Mozart and Marsalis, here are the very best. The violin is one of the most expressive instruments in the ...

The Danish violinist Anna Agafia, who’s now in her mid-20s, has a remarkable CV. She had a career as a child actor, leaving her with five entries in IMDb. She was a young figure skater whose prospects ...

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For his latest release on Sony Classical, violinist Leonidas Kavakos goes back to Bach - varied and vivid orchestral works from the first half of the 18th century in which the composer combined the ...

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 ...

When the soloist goes it alone, something very special happens. Here's seven of the very best instances. Brahms wrote one violin concerto and it was dedicated to Joseph Joachim, his closest friend and ...