Live, Video: Kritiken zu klassischen Konzerten, Opern, Ballett und Tanz finden | Caprice no. 24 for solo violin in A minor, Op.1 no.24

Au cours d'un récital consacré à la transcription, le pianiste et le violoniste ont rivalisé de virtuosité dans les Caprices de Paganini et dans la Chaconne de Bach.

The Pittsburgh Symphony flanks Khachaturian’s flamboyant Violin Concerto with a Brahms symphony and a recent piece from Sean Shepherd. 

Santtu-Matias Rouvali's second New York Phil subscription programme of the season opens with the US premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Catamorphosis. 

Scotch snap aplenty in evening of “Scottish Fantasy” with Hong Kong Philharmonic. 

A superb concert from the London Philharmonic Orchestra under an inspirational Vasily Petrenko who brought vivid colours to two ballet scores straddling the Great War, and an excusite rendtion of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. 

Berlin’s Konzerthaus Orchestra began its new season with works by two composers set against the artistic orthodoxies of their day.

In a program inspired by Italy, Roberto Abbado and Sergej Krylov join the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in powerhouse performances that featured some dazzling solo violin playing. 

A dark, intense performance of Tchaikovsky's Manfred, the black sheep of his symphonic canon, is the highlight of Vladimir Ashkenazy's latest concert with the Philharmonia. 

A virtuosic performance from Nemanja Radulović of Paganini was the highlight of Fabien Gabel's concert with the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France.

There was something for everyone in Maxim Vengerov and Itamar Golan’s recital programme at the Barbican last night. The music of nine different nations was represented in a multicultural extravaganza of shifting horizons, moods and styles.

“The name Stradivarius had an air of magic to me.” Virtuoso violinist James Ehnes’ statement manages to capture the air of reverence which underpinned Friday’s Music at Oxford concert. The gala marked the opening of the UK’s first Stradivarius exhibition at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, and two violins from the exhibition were on temporary release for the evening.