Brahms often sought the advice of experts when writing for instruments other than the piano. He was particularly lucky when it came to the violin. From the Hungarian violinist Eduard Remenyi, with ...

Brahms lived and worked under the shadow of Beethoven throughout his career. Brahms was very conscious of this – indeed, it was one of the main reasons why he took so long to compose a symphony – and ...

Hilary Hahn, violin; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, conductor (Sony Classical). Brahms: Violin Concerto; Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 Kyung ...

Leonidas Kavakos appeared in both the Double Concerto and the Violin Concerto during Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus's Brahms residency at the Barbican in London in October. Their superb ...

Jane Jones urges you to put one of the Big Four in your Top Three! It’s January, which means only one thing in the Classic FM calendar – nominations are invited for the top 300 pieces of classical ...

Rising young violinist Geneva Lewis demonstrated her musicality with the Santa Rosa Symphony last March, when she performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major with a precise focus on each note, ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Johannes Brahms, Composer James Gaffigan, Conductor Lucerne Symphony Orchestra Vadim Gluzman, Violin Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 Angela Yoffe, Piano Vadim ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Christian Tetzlaff, Violin Johannes Brahms, Composer Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in Hungarian sty ...

Last year, Janine Jansen filled Auckland Town Hall playing Tchaikovsky with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, her performance melting all but the stoniest of hearts. The Dutch violinist's new CD ...

Christian Tetzlaff is one of the most thoughtful and musically satisfying of the younger generation of European violinists, and it's typical of his considered approach that his first recording of one ...

Classical violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major. The complete Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, performed by violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine with the La Crosse ...

Brahms and Bartók make unlikely companions. In playing the Brahms concerto so introspectively and then focusing on the sense of mystery that opens Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1 Janine Jansen finds a ...