“Where words fail, music speaks,” said Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra based in DuPage County, presents concerts featuring works tied together ...

In February 1877, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky claimed that he could compose only "weak and rotten little themelets." The next year he composed the brave and cheerful tunes of his Violin Concerto in D ...

In 1878 Tchaikovsky dedicated his newly written Violin Concerto to the renowned violinist and teacher Leopold Auer, with the idea that Auer would perform the premiere of the work in March 1879.

When the Ukrainian-born Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman last performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Lafayette College’s Williams Center in 2011, it was in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2.

Violinist Geneva Lewis brings her expressive artistry back to the Santa Rosa Symphony for Brahms’ Violin Concerto, and ...

If a musician travels across an ocean just to play one piece of music, then that piece of music must be pretty great. Violinist Sharon Roffman said Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto” ...

“Music is not illusion,” Tchaikovsky reportedly said, “but revelation.” Last evening at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, his Violin Concerto turned out to be exactly that – a revelation. Yes, it was, on paper ...

On Thursday evening, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and music director Peter Oundjian played Tchaikovsky, Tchaikovsky and more Tchaikovsky. Such a concert carries with it the temptations of emotional ...

“Music that stinks in the ear!” That is how one critic described this concerto after its first performance. A harsh comment, you may say, but the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto had a somewhat troublesome ...

Lara St. John squeezes the soul out of a note or a melody — she’s the Duane Allman of classical violin. If you heard her Friday night at the Bankhead Theater in Livermore, where she performed ...

Tchaikovsky’s thrilling violin Concerto played on the very same instrument that inspired the work. Russian violinist Vadim Gluzman joins the West Australian Symphony Orchestra with the 1690 ...