Written in 1806, Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major was premiered by his colleague Franz Clement, just before Christmas of that year, on 23 December. Nine symphonies, five piano concertos, ...

Surprisingly Beethoven only wrote one violin concerto and it proved so popular that he transcribed it for the piano too Again, only one, and given its exceptional quality and the number of first-rate ...

a way of imagining and conveying the music that is absolutely hand in glove. Harmonia Mundi has already released valuable, revelatory Faust CDs, not least her Beethoven violin sonatas with ...

Devorina Gamalova recalls being entranced by this music as a child. And violinist Christian Tetzlaff talks about what it's like to play the Beethoven Violin Concerto. Series exploring famous ...

Devorina Gamalova recalls being entranced by this music as a child. And violinist Christian Tetzlaff talks about what it's like to play the Beethoven Violin Concerto.

It’s a boon for music fans in this spread ... The main draw was Beethoven, and the vehicle was his ubiquitous Violin Concerto, which LACO can play in its sleep. But with the fascinating ...

The scene was set; now all we needed was the music ... and ends with Beethoven. The first sound of the opening-night concert was the lone timpani that begins the Violin Concerto, the season ...

The Beethoven Violin Concerto, 130-odd years older, seems to be from a world sure in certainties that Berg had lost. Faust and Abbado's illuminating performance uses cadenzas (adapted from the ...

The Beethoven and Berg violin concertos ... of the work as a piano concerto. This is often an uncomfortable option: Beethoven’s cadenzas (that in the first movement includes an important role for ...