Violinist Archive

  Fritz Kreisler: Violin Music Fritz Kreisler was a legendary violinist and composer during his own lifetime. His specialty became the adaptations and arrangements that he wrote based on earlier composers’ music. In this collection, …

  Concert Event: “Vienna: City of Dreams”: At Carnegie Hall, NYC. Carnegie Hall’s three-week Vienna festival, wraps up with three concerts by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, with three distinctive conductors on the podium. March 13 …

Goldmark and Brahms: Violin Concertos On this recording, we get an unusual coupling of ‘Hungarian’ Romantic violin concertos, one rather more familiar than that by the other composer: Carl Goldmark’s concerto premiered in Nuremberg, October …

Julian Rachlin, violinist. Here is yet another young artist, who impresses me with his style, his presentation, and his confidence. The music of the future is well served by people like that. I listened to …

Another young performer: Jennifer Pike plays Brahms and Schumann Every amateur violinist has at one time or another struggled with the three wonderful sonatas by Brahms. Historically the composer may well have written these for …