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 ...

A remarkable run of major monuments in the classical-Romantic violin repertoire began in L.A. a few weeks ago when Joshua Bell played Bruch’s First Concerto. It signaled the start of what amounts to a ...

While KQED was selling wrinkle cream to its aging audience two weeks ago, many other PBS affiliates were reveling in horsehair. The delayed "Great Performances" show "The Art of Violin" finally ...

Conductor Li Xincao's excellent Beethoven programme with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta last season proved to be difficult to forget, so there was great hope of a repeat with this concert. Conducting from ...

Premiered in 1806, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major paved the way for three great violin concertos of the 19th and 20th centuries: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Sibelius. Extremely expressive and ...

Simon Rattle's farewell concert with the London Symphony Orchestra was, of course, Mahler's Ninth Symphony, the farewell of all farewells. But on a happier note, Rattle led a performance of Benjamin ...

Where: Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, 211 E. Desmet Ave., Gonzaga University campus Tickets: $18, $15 for seniors and military, and $14 for non-GU students, available by calling (509) 313-2787 ...

Among all of the great violin concertos, sonatas and other works that populate Itzhak Perlman‘s extensive catalogue, there is one piece that has become his most requested from audiences. “It is a very ...

A link to the early-20th-century school of violin playing, Ms. Haendel was a noted champion of the concertos of Britten, Walton and Sibelius. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Ida Haendel, the ...

A remarkable run of major monuments in the classical-Romantic violin repertoire began in L.A. a few weeks ago when Joshua Bell played Bruch’s First Concerto. It signaled the start of what amounts to a ...