Along with the violin concertos of Bruch and Mendelssohn, this warhorse by Tchaikovsky is one of the most important works for the instrument in the history of Romantic music. It is also a piece that, ...

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 ...

Teodor Currentzis and his MusicAeterna are a welcome astringent in the modern recording world, giving us daring period takes on Così fan Tutte and Le nozze di Figaro and making Rameau’s wonderfully ...

Australian violinist Christian Li performs Tchaikovsky's beloved Violin Concerto with Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in this week's Feature Album on ABC Classic. Li became the ...

In February 1877, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky claimed that he could compose only "weak and rotten little themelets." The next year he composed the brave and cheerful tunes of his Violin Concerto in D ...

Elegance and poise may not be the qualities that first come to mind for Tchaikovsky's bravura Violin Concerto. But in a performance built on just those virtues, Armenian virtuoso Sergey Khachatryan ...

The ubiquitous Tchaikovsky concerto is given a radiant facelift here by two musicians who have a marked instinct for the tone of the music. Ashkenazy, conducting his Sydney Symphony, understands the ...

Acclaimed violinist Ray Chen made his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut on March 13, performing Tchaikovsky’s iconic “Violin Concerto in D Major” from March 13–16 alongside American conductor Teddy ...

“Where words fail, music speaks,” said Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra based in DuPage County, presents concerts featuring works tied together ...

Sometimes even when things go wrong, everything comes out right. Such was the case Sunday afternoon in the Klein Music Tent for violinist Augustin Hadelich. Just as he and the Aspen Festival Orchestra ...

“Music that stinks in the ear!” That is how one critic described this concerto after its first performance. A harsh comment, you may say, but the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto had a somewhat troublesome ...

Elizabeth Alker marks the 90th birthday of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, she also has exclusive recordings of great Romantic violin concertos and chamber music from Sweden. Show more Throughout ...