violin concerto Archive

I listened to this recording today, and I loved it. Not only is Edward Elgar my favorite British composer, but also violinist Hilary Hahn plays it with a beautiful tone and fine style. Elgar composed …

Composer Jean Sibelius was trained as a violinist, although he never became a virtuoso performer. He auditioned, unsuccessfully, for a place in the Vienna Philharmonic when he was 26, and it was difficult for him …

Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B minor, Opus 61 was composed between 1909 and 1910 and dedicated to the violinist Fritz Kreisler. As the scheduled first performance of the concerto neared, Elgar recruited his family …

I have been a long-time admirer of violinist Nicola Benedetti. Her playing is direct, always supremely confident, and totally musical. The Elgar concerto is historic in that it was a young Yehudi Menuhin who travelled …

This is Alina Ibragimova’s and Vladimir Jurowski’s second collaboration on disc, following their 2012 accounts of the Mendelssohn concertos, and as on that recording Jurowski’s choice of orchestra suits the repertoire to perfection: if the …