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One of the highest visibility classical music contests in the world, the Cliburn has been held quadrennially in Fort Worth ...
The group performs under the artistic direction of its founder, concert pianist Warren Mailley-Smith and focuses on the virtuoso concerto repertoire of the baroque, classical and early romantic ...
on Analeketa This week violinist James Ehnes joins the Gramophone Podcast to talk to Editor Martin Cullingford about his new recording of Bach's complete violin concertos, recorded with Canada's ...
Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of the Allegro from Bach’s Concerto No.3 in D Major by Beatrice Rana. The video features the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, and the recording can be found on Rana’s ...
From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) presented a masterful performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete “Brandenburg Concertos ... The violin introduced a theme ...
The violin has become the third most expensive musical instrument ever sold at auction. It was made 300 years ago. https://p.dw.com/p/4qCES The Joachim-Ma ...
Accepting with alacrity, because there were two concertos that had rarely been heard before, which were performed back-to-back, first at St John’s Church and subsequently at the GD Birla Sabhaghar.
In October, the hugely popular musical duo TwoSet Violin announced they would be hanging up their ... A teaser video titled B²TSM – ‘I’m Bach’ Official Teaser, appeared on their YouTube channel on ...
Bach. Crashing chords ... Instead: Philip Glass’s violin concerto, Einojuhani Rautavaara’s “Cantus Arcticus: Concerto for Birds and Orchestra,” and, on the jazz side, Nina Simone ...
Elgar’s cello concerto and Sibelius’s violin concerto. Some composers, like Stravinsky, decided to look back to the early concertos of Corelli and Bach for inspiration, and some pioneered entirely new ...
Last night, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment launched the first concerto with ... in flute and violin with rhythmic stretches and shimmies that suggest a ...
All but the last of Johann Sebastian Bach’s six sonatas for violin and harpsichord (BWV ... as in the careening rhythmic games and other concerto-like thrills of the last movement of the third ...