In February 1877, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky claimed that he could compose only "weak and rotten little themelets." The next year he composed the brave and cheerful tunes of his Violin Concerto in D ...

Violinist Geneva Lewis brings her expressive artistry back to the Santa Rosa Symphony for Brahms’ Violin Concerto, and ...

Doha, Qatar: On Saturday, May 4, the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO), with violin virtuoso Aisha Syed Castro, will bring Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77, to life at the Qatar National ...

Classical music meets Halloween and the paranormal Thursday night when the National Symphony Orchestra plays the Schumann Violin Concerto, a work buried for nearly a century and recovered — or so the ...

Nathan Milstein (violin) with Erich Leinsdorf conducting The Philharmonic Orchestra. Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61 (Beethoven) (AFRTS RL-25-8). 33-1/3 rpm.

Beethoven wrote 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets and nine symphonies, but only one violin concerto. It happens to be one of the greatest ever. Lucky , a fiddler born in Tokyo and raised in New ...

Don't be fooled by the sweeping, warm musicality of Johannes Brahms's great Violin Concerto in D Major. The three-movement work is a technical minefield, as even Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, one of the ...

Jazz great Wynton Marsalis, a virtuoso trumpet player and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, has written — wait for it — a violin concerto. As the daughter of the late virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg ...