Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Acclaimed violin virtuoso Randall Goosby is set to solo in the New Jersey Symphony ...

Vadim Gluzman presents an effortless reading of Tchaikovsky's notoriously technical violin concerto with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under Jakub Hrůša. As a soloist, Gluzman is equal parts ...

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 ...

Few warhorses in the classical music canon have had a rockier start to life than Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto.” Two star violinists in Tchaikovsky’s orbit, Iosif Kotek and Leopold Auer, both ...

“Where words fail, music speaks,” said Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra based in DuPage County, presents concerts featuring works tied together ...

“Music that stinks in the ear!” That is how one critic described this concerto after its first performance. A harsh comment, you may say, but the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto had a somewhat troublesome ...

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto: a deep-dive into the best recordings Mark Pullinger Monday, February 6, 2023 Despite its troubled early reception, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto has become a favourite ...

The opening movement of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto has a kind of confused identity. Is it a fast movement or a slow one in disguise? Years ago I heard a performance so strung- out it sounded as if ...

Jennifer Higdon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2008 Violin Concerto, here appearing on disc for the first time, wasn’t just written for Hilary Hahn. It was custom-created to show her playing off to ...