Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Today it’s one of the most well-loved violin concertos, but it wasn’t so popular at first... Violinist ...

Surprisingly Beethoven only wrote one violin concerto and it proved so popular that he transcribed it for the piano too Again, only one, and given its exceptional quality and the number of first-rate ...

You have to have a gimmick to put out yet another recording of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, and Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili has two dandy ones: She plays the Beethoven without a conductor, ...

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, normally encamped in Glendale’s Alex Theatre or UCLA’s Royce Hall, occasionally roams in search of different places and spaces. It’s a boon for music fans in this ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Daniel Lozakovich, Violin Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Valery Gergiev, Conductor This latest Beethoven Violin Concerto recording might, in a sense, be called a ...

Christian Tetzlaff has played Beethoven’s Violin Concerto hundreds of times, but still found a way to take it to another level with the LSO and Daniel Harding “It’s a big part of me,” Christian ...

In this DW Festival Concert, violinist Augustin Hadelich performs Beethoven's complex Violin Concerto in D Major. Inspired to create contemporary music that reflects the challenges of the age, from ...

James Ehnes here for the first time on disc takes on the warhorse that is the Beethoven Violin Concerto, and the result is more than worth the wait: the Canadian violinist does an uncommonly good job ...

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 ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Isabelle Faust, Violin Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Claudio Abbado, Conductor Mozart Orchestra Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 'To the memory of an angel' Alban ...

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Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major Opus 61 was written in 1806, but was not a success at its premiere. 200 years on and this Concerto is regarded as one of the greatest pieces ever written for the ...