Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor; Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 Itzhak Perlman, violin; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, conductor (Erato). Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E ...

Audiences love Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor for its warmth and frequent pyrotechnics. The concerto also features playful innovations that would have shocked—or delighted—the audience at ...

American violinist Chad Hoopes was born in 1994. His debut CD pairs a work first heard in January of that year, the Violin Concerto by John Adams, with a staple from the middle of the 19th-century, ...

Karol Szymanowski's "Violin Concerto" was written in the autumn of 1916 in Zarudzie, Ukraine, on the estate of the composer's friend - Józef Jaroszyński. It is dedicated to Paweł Kochański. On this ...

The City of Birmingham Symphony’s leader talks about leading Mozart’s last Violin Concerto – a work full of sunshine, clarity and transparency.

Mendelssohn wrote these two concertos at the ages of 13 and 14, at a time when he was developing at astonishing speed. (He would write two of his best pieces while still in his teens, the Octet at 16 ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule 1 Allegro The violin was Elgar’s own instrument and his Violin Concerto is ...

Despite the status that Elgar’s Cello Concerto has acquired since its premiere, there is a case to be made for proposing that it was in fact the Violin Concerto that was truly the composer’s favourite ...

There was a time, in his twenties, when, if he’d been asked the question "What’s your occupation?" Sibelius would have answered, "Violinist". Having studied the violin from fairly early on, he soon ...

Mieczysław Karłowicz wrote his Violin Concerto in A major Op. 8 (1902) for his violin professor and outstanding violin virtuoso Stanisław Barcewicz, and it was Barcewicz who premiered the Concerto - ...

The violin was Elgar’s own instrument and his Violin Concerto is almost like a personal confession: it was ‘too emotional’, Elgar admitted, adding that he loved it nonetheless. The Spanish inscription ...