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 ...
A good, steady, spacious account of the Academic Festival Overture precedes the Violin Concerto, and this is recorded in very good sound which has plenty of clarity, impact and warmth. When the ...
Cleveland favorite Augustin Hadelich returns to Severance with Brahms’s exquisite Violin Concerto, which positions its fiendishly difficult solo lines as part of a symphonic whole. Elim Chan also ...
The piano was Johannes Brahms’ instrument of choice, and it’s clear from his many compositions featuring the piano that he knew the instrument inside out. But when it came time to compose a violin ...
Passing through the lobby of the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox on Friday evening, one repeatedly heard people remark, “I can’t wait for the Brahms!” “The Brahms” they referred to was that composer ...
Rising young violinist Geneva Lewis demonstrated her musicality with the Santa Rosa Symphony last March, when she performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major with a precise focus on each note, ...
It's been six years since the violinist Benjamin Beilman was last in Spokane, but he remembers that 2017 performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto all too well. Or at least a few ...
Jane Jones urges you to put one of the Big Four in your Top Three! It’s January, which means only one thing in the Classic FM calendar – nominations are invited for the top 300 pieces of classical ...
Brahms and Bartók make unlikely companions. In playing the Brahms concerto so introspectively and then focusing on the sense of mystery that opens Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1 Janine Jansen finds a ...
The many-faceted Brahms Violin Concerto, with a powerful soloist, is the main event for this concert, the last classical performance of the season for the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Richard ...
Classical violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major. The complete Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, performed by violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine with the La Crosse ...
Stefan Jackiw makes his debut with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra playing Brahms’ Violin Concerto, conducted by Andrew Gourlay. In May 1879 Brahms wrote to the great violinist Joseph Joachim, for ...