Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

An exploration of personal and professional impact of the concerto written in 1844. With violinist Daniel Hope. From 2010. Show more Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional appeal.

Bach's concertos - they're essential listening. The Brandenburg Concertos, the keyboard concertos… they're all great, but what is it about the Violin Concerto in A minor that keeps people coming back ...

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 ...

In this all-Sibelilus disc, violinist Ava Bahari’s account of the Violin Concerto has heft and exuberance, while Rouvali’s dramatic nous suits the drama of the Four Legends of Lemminkäinen ...

Hot on the heels of his new Stabat Mater a fortnight ago come first recordings of two other works by James MacMillan. In each the numinous rubs shoulders with outbursts of high-decibel grandstanding.

Musical interpretations vary widely from smooth jazz covers of Disney's Frozen to faithful recreations of Baroque chamber music as it was played in its time. But what makes an interpretation different ...

Brahms often sought the advice of experts when writing for instruments other than the piano. He was particularly lucky when it came to the violin. From the Hungarian violinist Eduard Remenyi, with ...