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Intimate and powerful, Fischer's performance with Camerata Salzburg feels like a match made in heaven. 

Julia Fischer ends her London Philharmonic Orchestra spring residency with Elgar's Violin Concerto and a chamber encore which sees Jurowski turn to the piano.

Julia Fischer's final concert in her series with LPO exploring Mozart's violin concertos tackled Nos 1 & 2, thoughtfully balanced with Tchaikovsky's gleaming Serenade for Strings.

Vladimir Jurowski conducts Tchaikovsky, Britten and Scriabin viewed through Oliver Knussen's palette to open the London Philharmonic's 2019-20 season. 

Kirill Petrenko paid attention to details that many times get lost.

In the last week, the LPO has been on a journey through the seasons. Tonight, it was mists and mellow fruitfulness, courtesy of rarities by Respighi and Marx.

Two young, widely championed string players – violinist/pianist Julia Fischer and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott – recently joined to perform an eclectic concert at the city’s stunning new concert hall.

While premiered only some 60 years apart, the Béla Bartók and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky works that Charles Dutoit recently conducted in the Zurich Tonhalle couldn’t have called up more disparate moods.

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

There can be no better reason to see a concert of Beethoven than to be offered a fresh point of view; Julia Fischer and Igor Levit did just that.

Riccardo Muti presented a serene program of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, with Julia Fischer, and Brahms’ Serenade no. 1.

Violinist Julia Fischer and pianist Igor Levit performed all ten of Beethoven’s violin sonatas in a marathon at the Tonhalle that culminated in Sunday night’s “Kreutzer” and the “Tenth”. 

Elgar shines after a fresh performance of Tchaikovsky with Julia Fischer and the St Petersburg Philharmonic. 

Joyful Haydn and intense Schoenberg from Julia Fischer and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, joined by Oliver Schnyder for some energetic Mendelssohn.

After 19 years, David Zinman took his leave from the post of music director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich yesterday with an affectionate Proms programme of Strauss, Dvořák and Beethoven. 

Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott demonstrate faultless command of Brahms' consumately crafted Double Concerto, which makes a telling contrast with Bruckner's wayward early Symphony no.2 in C minor in Jurowski's committed LPO performance.

Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, and violinist Julia Fischer triumph in a weekend of Brahms, including the Tragic Overture, the Violin Concerto, and the Second Symphony.

In recent decades, the infatuation with youth and beauty has affected many industries including classical music. In fact, it seems that classical musicians must begin their studies practically while they are still breast-feeding in order to ensure any kind of career at all. Bright stars burn out quickly, however, and few Wunderkinder show signs of true artistry and sophistication.

Prom number 40 saw a Russian conductor at the helm of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, playing a selection of music from some of the great Russian composers of the last two centuries, all with very distinct styles. Rimsky Korsakov’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Night on a Bare Mountain began the concert and conjured up all the fantastical imagery the name promises.