This week we'll hear three violin concertos from three different centuries. Geneva Lewis solos on Mozart's third concerto, Jennifer Koh takes on Missy Mazzoli's modern concerto and Augustin Hadelich ...

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It was a great weekend for Shostakovich and Prokofiev concertos at the Aspen Music Festival, with a fine smattering of other concerto-like pieces to liven up the proceedings. Augustin Hadelich never ...

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst’s one-movement concerto, premiered by him in 1846, is his most ambitious work. Virtuosos ignore it today in the belief that its immense difficulties outweigh its aesthetic value ...

Polish Violin Concertos fills in the gaps between Chopin and Penderecki. Naxos has done much for New Zealand music, recording our two major orchestras playing composers from Jack Body and Lyell ...

Are we in a golden age of violinists? It looks like it. That astonishing young players keep coming up the ranks and capturing the public’s imagination is nothing new. But what really seems to mark our ...

J.S. Bach may have been light on concertos, but when he did compose them he made sure they were special. Here's where to start with his violin concertos. Concertos don't take up a huge amount of room ...

Playing Mozart's music on Mozart's own violin is like reaching through 250 years of history to commune with the legendary composer, says Christoph Koncz. Koncz, the principal second violinist of the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The 1930s saw a sudden flourishing of concertos for violin. In this selection, the first of a planned series, Shaham ...

THE BASICS: Violinist Nikki Chooi plays Behzad Ranjbaran’s Violin Concerto at Kleinhans as JoAnn Falletta also conducts the BPO in Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1 and Glinka’s Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila ...

Born in southern Finland in 1865, Jean Sibelius’ music helped to define Finnish national identity for many in the 19th and 20th centuries, as the country struggled for independence against the Russian ...

Augustin Hadelich's latest album of violin concertos offers two unlikely bedfellows. The tuneful, romantic classic by Johannes Brahms bumps up against the modernist mayhem of György Ligeti. The album, ...