Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter marks Mendelssohn's bicentennial with a new recording of his Violin Concerto, which she'll also perform Saturday and next Sunday with the San Francisco Symphony.

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THE BASICS: The Buffalo Philharmonic (BPO) in concert, Leon Botstein, guest conductor, Melissa White, violin soloist, in Max Reger’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven, Op. 86; Florence ...

The Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos has been signed to the Sony Classical label – and his first UK release is an outstanding one. Winner of both the Sibelius and Paganini violin competitions, Kavakos ...

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 ...

Sometimes you really want to belt out a great passage of your favourite concerto. Great! But what if it's a summer's afternoon and you don't have an orchestra immediately to hand? That's no problem ...

Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is one of the most frequently performed works in the repertoire, so most violinists might have to consider how to make it fresh for audiences. Violinist Geneva ...

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is one of the most loved and famous of all violin concertos. For this performance, virtuoso violinist Augustin Hadelich plays a 1744 Guarneri 'del Gesù' violin. Anton ...

You may be surprised by the recessed, almost faint profile of the solo violin at the start of Isabelle Faust’s new recording of Mendelssohn’s E minor Violin Concerto. That balance and her unusually ...

Stephen Johnson explores Mendelssohn's rarely heard Concerto for violin and piano to examine how the composer was already racing from being a child prodigy to an incipient genius. Show more ...

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.

Ralph Matson takes the solo spotlight in the Violin Concerto in E Minor, by Felix Mendelssohn. He performed it at the Grand Teton Music Festival in June, and so he's joined by the Grand Teton Music ...