violin concerto Archive

Violinist Inmo Yang, the 26-year-old Korean violinist was recently named the winner of the Sibelius Violin Competition. He was awarded the top prize of €30,000. In addition, Yang was also awarded an instrument loan of …

Edward Elgar was at the height of his creative powers when this concerto was composed. At that time, in 1910, he was riding high on the successes of his “The Dream of Gerontius”, the Enigma …

Karl Goldmark composed his violin concerto in 1877, The premiere of the Violin Concerto was certainly held in Vienna on 10 November 1878, after the manuscript had been completed. The soloist, Johann Christoph Lauterbach, was …

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was 50 years old at the time of the 1947 debut of his Violin Concerto in D Major, a lyrical work begun a decade earlier. The half-century mark can seem significant to …

Samuel Barber composed his violin concerto in 1939. The nature of its genesis, including external factors, led to the aspect that is the unusual: the seeming incongruity between the character of the first two movements …