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 ...

Gustavo Dudamel launches the fall season with a world premiere by the Hawaiian composer Leilehua Lanzilotti and Charles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The highly acclaimed Xian Zhang begins her tenure as Seattle Symphony's music director Saturday. She's the first woman and ...

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 ...

Sometimes, says virtuoso violinist Alexander Markov, life has a way of coming full circle. On Oct. 9, 1983, the Moscow-born, Connecticut-reared phenom made his Carnegie Hall debut on classical violin.

Yehudi Menuhin saw Schumann’s D minor Violin Concerto of 1853 as a missing link between Beethoven and Brahms. The reason it had been missing was that the great Hungarian virtuoso Joseph Joachim, whose ...

Choo Hoey, the conductor who has died aged 90, made it his mission to bring the Western canon to Asian audiences.

“This is complete madness,” the maestro tells the orchestra. He glances to the soloist, the world-famous violinist Rachel Barton Pine, then says simply, “Let’s go.” You wouldn’t know from the title on ...