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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Overture to 'Don Giovanni' Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra / Romanian Youth Orchestra Manfred Honeck, ...

The violin concertos by Sibelius and Schoenberg are two of the greatest of the 20th century. But where the Sibelius has been firmly established in the repertory and widely performed for more than half ...

Simon Rattle takes the concerto back to the 19th century and Renaud Capuçon’s partnership with Stephen Hough for the sonata is a meeting of equals The Violin Concerto is not only one of Elgar’s ...

An arresting, decisive call to action from Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra launches a powerful performance of Dvoˇrák’s Violin Concerto, in which Julia Fischer is a soloist with a mix of strong projection ...

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Classical music meets Halloween and the paranormal Thursday night when the National Symphony Orchestra plays the Schumann Violin Concerto, a work buried for nearly a century and recovered — or so the ...

Augustin Hadelich is steeped in the repertoire of classical violin concertos and travels the globe to perform them with the world's major orchestras. The cosmopolitan violinist — born in Italy to ...