There was a time, in his twenties, when, if he’d been asked the question "What’s your occupation?" Sibelius would have answered, "Violinist". Having studied the violin from fairly early on, he soon ...

It is a remarkable enough fact that Mendelssohn wrote his String Octet at the age of only 16, a work of such youthful freshness and prodigious command of texture that it immediately marked him out as ...

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 ...

I chanced upon Russian born Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman during my 2006 summer visit to Budapest where he performed Mendelsohn’s D minor violin concerto with superb musicality and virtuoso ...

"You gotta love Brahms," Joshua Bell says, a little short of breath. He's wiping sweat from his brow after the big rock 'n' roll conclusion to the composer's D minor Violin Sonata. Bell and the astute ...

102 de Falla, M.: Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breve" / Violin 103 Scriabin, A.: Nocturne, Op. 5 No. 1 / Violin 104 Prokofiev, S.: March from "The Love for Three Oranges" / Violin 105 Albeniz, I.: Song ...

We think of Mozart as the prototypical musical wunderkind, but compared with Felix Mendelssohn, little Wolfgang was a piker. The latest evidence on that score emerged in Davies Symphony Hall on ...

Classical music wouldn’t be classical music without the legacy and lasting supremacy of Baroque composer J.S. Bach’s music. Here are some of his best works. Ah Bach. Bach’s music is at once majestic ...

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 ...

Rather than her customary unshod stance lowering our body temperatures in sympathy on a freezing Sunday afternoon, guest director-lead violin Patricia Kopatchinskaja took the Australian Chamber ...