The violin and viola that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum ...

Playing Mozart's music on Mozart's own violin is like reaching through 250 years of history to commune with the legendary composer, says Christoph Koncz. Koncz, the principal second violinist of the ...

It is hard for Mozart’s violin concertos to win attention for themselves, living as they do in the gigantic shadow cast by Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Mozart’s own sublime Sinfonia Concertante for ...

How do you transport the priceless violin that Mozart used to compose his many masterpieces? Pop it in your hand luggage, apparently! We’re told that music philanthropist Marife Hernandez hosted a ...

The Suzuki method meets Mozart and Canada goes classical with the latest CD releases. There is even a touch of the TodiFest. Violinist Takako Nishizaki, long a staple on the Naxos label, is the ...

Jordan Hall was packed on Monday night for the first mainstage concert of the Boston Early Music Festival, an evening of Mozart’s chamber music. The performers were all accomplished period instrument ...

Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 16 February 2015. Following the success of her discs of Romantic violin music, Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang has recorded Mozart’s Concertos Nos. 1 and 5 'Turkish' ...

Next week, an outstanding new recording of the complete Mozart violin concertos hits the shops. Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer is joined by Kremerata Baltica – an ensemble he founded – and Simon Bates ...

Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all but one of them in the same year—1775, when he was nineteen. The Concerto No. 1 was written two years before, possibly. Musicologists are unsure. Are they great ...

Violinist Hilary Hahn is known for putting together some unusual programs. On her latest album, she pairs Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major with 19th century Belgian composer Henri Vieuxtemps' ...

Remembered as a child prodigy, how did Mozart craft the masterpieces that would remain well known over two hundred years after his death? Research from the Music Department has unearthed a new side to ...