Felix Mendelssohn’s 1844 Violin Concerto in e-minor was his last large orchestral work. Not only is it one of the most popular and frequently performed violin concertos of all time, it’s also regarded ...

Bach's concertos - they're essential listening. The Brandenburg Concertos, the keyboard concertos… they're all great, but what is it about the Violin Concerto in A minor that keeps people coming back ...

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 ...

STUDIO CITY >> Fourteen-year-old Nathan Benning cradled a violin 14 months in the making, fitted it to a freckly chin, then launched into a deep and resonant minor violin concerto. Its rich vibrato ...

Violin aficionados don’t flock to Pinchas Zukerman’s recitals to be blown away by flashy bowing, heart-on-the-sleeve drama or radical deconstructions of thrice-familiar classics. They go to experience ...

Felix Mendelssohn's e-minor Violin Concerto qualifies as a warhorse. And violinist Geneva Lewis rode that warhorse to victory and beyond Saturday night at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance ...

Discover Mendelssohn's lesser-known violin music in the context of his brilliant Violin Concerto in E minor. Drive Featured Album 28 January 2013. Mendelssohn's Violin Concertos are rarely anything ...

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 ...

The three finalists performed a concerto in a bid for the title of BBC Young Musician 2010. Prodigy is a strong thread running through musical history, and so it's fitting that Lara Ömeroğlu played 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 ...

Violinist Augustin Hadelich performs Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of guest conductor Carlo Montanaro at Bass Performance Hall in ...