The world of the Romantic violin concerto is richer and more varied than many of us think, and this latest installment in Hyperion's series on the subject uncovers two little-known Russian gems. Anton ...

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 ...

Bits & pieces put together to present a semblance of a whole.” Those words adorned the Walker Art Center’s east wall for several years, part of a piece of conceptual art by Lawrence Weiner. I found ...

A remarkable run of major monuments in the classical-Romantic violin repertoire began in L.A. a few weeks ago when Joshua Bell played Bruch’s First Concerto. It signaled the start of what amounts to a ...

The influence of Mendelssohn is reflected also in the ninth instalment of Hyperion's Romantic Violin Concerto series. Ferdinand David (1810-73) is best remembered as the violinist who premiered ...

Italy-born, German-American Augustin Hadelich, if not yet a household name, is very probably the planet’s most booked ...

Last Saturday’s Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra concert in Allentown Symphony Hall was billed as a “celebration of cultural diversity.” In current terms there wasn’t in fact much diversity. All of the ...

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'I've always had love affairs through music," says Jorja Fleezanis. She's speaking, as she's wont to do, with her whole body; her home studio, lined with scores and LPs, is too small to contain her ...

A remarkable run of major monuments in the classical-Romantic violin repertoire began in L.A. a few weeks ago when Joshua Bell played Bruch’s First Concerto. It signaled the start of what amounts to a ...