When you're all grown up, you — at least theoretically — put away childish things. But there are exceptions, as violinist Hilary Hahn proves in her latest recording project. The album is a pairing of ...

Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all but one of them in the same year—1775, when he was nineteen. The Concerto No. 1 was written two years before, possibly. Musicologists are unsure. Are they great ...

Mozart's concertos are still some of the most widely performed - horn concertos, clarinet concertos, violin concertos, piano concertos... They're all as popular as they ever were, but why? Showing off ...

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 ...

Two decades on from his Deutsche Grammophon recordings, the Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer revisits Mozart's Violin Concertos, this time in the company of his own group, Kremerata Baltica. It's almost ...

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What’s the difference between a viola and a trampoline? You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline. Those damn viola jokes! Though usually good-natured and funny, they nonetheless belittle a ...

An inspired coupling together with A-list casting make this disc a must. In a booklet note Isabelle Faust pays due homage to the artistry of Claudio Abbado, but it works both ways. These performances ...

When the soloist goes it alone, something very special happens. Here's seven of the very best instances. Brahms wrote one violin concerto and it was dedicated to Joseph Joachim, his closest friend and ...