Superb artistry shines through this excellent new release. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 5 May 2014. Born in 1981 to a German father and Japanese mother, the violinist Arabella Steinbacher has had ...

It is hard for Mozart’s violin concertos to win attention for themselves, living as they do in the gigantic shadow cast by Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Mozart’s own sublime Sinfonia Concertante for ...

Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all but one of them in the same year—1775, when he was nineteen. The Concerto No. 1 was written two years before, possibly. Musicologists are unsure. Are they great ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Violin Concertos 1, 3, 4 et al., Frank Peter Zimmermann, BR Chamber Orchestra, Radoslaw Szulc (leader), Hänssler Classic To say that Mozart wrote some pieces that are greater ...

If you are discovering Mozart's violin concertos for the first time, here are three great recordings to get you started Gramophone's David Threasher noted in his review of Isabelle Faust's recording ...

Playing Mozart's music on Mozart's own violin is like reaching through 250 years of history to commune with the legendary composer, says Christoph Koncz. Koncz, the principal second violinist of the ...

Mozart’s violin concertos, all composed in the same period in his early career, are not the most highly regarded part of his oeuvre, but in the hands of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and their ...

What’s the difference between a viola and a trampoline? You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline. Those damn viola jokes! Though usually good-natured and funny, they nonetheless belittle a ...

Mozart: Sonatas for piano and violin Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Mark Steinberg (violin) (Philips 475 6200) Mitsuko Uchida just gets better and better. The Japanese-born, London-based pianist is the star ...

When you're all grown up, you — at least theoretically — put away childish things. But there are exceptions, as violinist Hilary Hahn proves in her latest recording project. The album is a pairing of ...