Anthony Marwood is the latest violinist to go into bat on behalf of Schumann's late and much criticised D minor Violin Concerto, a work that was completed in 1853, but withheld by Clara Schumann after ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...