Wynton Marsalis' rare musical versatility has long been a beacon in the worlds of jazz and classical music. Now the Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer brings those ...

Performed by soloist Sandy Cameron conducted by John Mauceri, Elfman's album opens with his violin concerto in four movements: Grave – Animato, Spietato, Fratasma, and Giocoso – Lacrimae. The album ...

After all the hype I tried to generate for Nicola Benedetti playing Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto, I thought it would be good to revisit some of the traditional violin concerto repertoire. I will ...

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 ...

Scotsman critic Ken Walton names his top five classical albums of the year ...

Classical violinists turned YouTubers Brett Yang and Eddy Chen (aka TwoSet Violin) collaborated with the virtual platform Moment House to broadcast a world tour virtually on December 28. Image: ...

These concertos of baroque composer Josef Antonín Guretzky (1709-1769) are a joy! Picking a composer out of Moravian obscurity, the “Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen” have put down world ...

Twenty-five years on from its premiere John Adams’s Violin Concerto has proved its staying power. Adams has said that he adopted the concerto form as a kind of “Platonic model” and the work stands in ...

A holiday album that cuts through seasonal glut, a late collaboration by Jim McNeely and Helmut Lachenmann’s string quartets ...

They may have sensed, as well, that acoustical challenges are not the only difficulty rock-fusion works pose. Rock fans often hear the results as watered down, while classical listeners hear them as ...

From principal oboist Mary Lynch’s reedy mastery to the politely timed coughing of its die-hard patrons (a mini-explosion between movements), the Seattle Symphony holds an eternal soft spot in my ...