violin concerto Archive

I was delighted when I listened to an amazing lyrical performance of the Brahms violin concerto today. The soloist was Sergey Khachatrian with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Sergey Khachatryan won First Prize at the …

Johannes Brahms composed his Violin Concerto for his friend and renowned violinist, Joseph Joachim. Many critics at the time claimed the music Brahms had written was too difficult as it included rapid broken chords, scales …

Jean Sibelius’s violin concerto is the most frequently recorded and performed concerto of the violin concertos composed in the 20th century. At the start of the 21st century there were over 50 recordings available. And …

Samuel Barber composed his violin concerto in 1939. The nature of its origin led to the aspect that is the weirdest: the seeming incongruity between the character of the first two movements and that of …

Jean Sibelius began to composed his violin concerto in September 1902. The work was completed in short score (that is, with the orchestration worked out but not written down in detail) in the fall of 1903. …