“Where words fail, music speaks,” said Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra based in DuPage County, presents concerts featuring works tied together ...

Nicola gave us an exclusive guide to one of the greatest pieces for violin and orchestra ever written. This Saturday evening, Alex James celebrates one of this country's finest virtuosos, Nicola ...

In 1878 Tchaikovsky dedicated his newly written Violin Concerto to the renowned violinist and teacher Leopold Auer, with the idea that Auer would perform the premiere of the work in March 1879.

In February 1877, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky claimed that he could compose only "weak and rotten little themelets." The next year he composed the brave and cheerful tunes of his Violin Concerto in D ...

Tchaikovsky’s thrilling violin Concerto played on the very same instrument that inspired the work. Russian violinist Vadim Gluzman joins the West Australian Symphony Orchestra with the 1690 ...

Jennifer Higdon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2008 Violin Concerto, here appearing on disc for the first time, wasn’t just written for Hilary Hahn. It was custom-created to show her playing off to ...

One of the most daunting concertos in the violin repertoire, Tchaikovsky's masterpiece has benefitted from some classic interpretations on disc Thanks for exploring the Gramophone website. Sign up for ...

Explore a Romantic world of destiny, fate and shocking climaxes with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony lead by LA Opera Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados. Plus, International Tchaikovsky ...

Even if the New York Philharmonic’s first Hong Kong concert had not coincided with American Independence Day, it was a sure bet that one of the world’s finest orchestras – and, having been founded in ...

Surging with ardent passion and calling for virtuoso feats of the highest order, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is one of classical music’s most thrilling live concert experiences. At just 27 years old ...

A health warning on the cover might be appropriate. Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a violinist rooted in contemporary music and Teodor Currentzis a conductor of catholic tastes with a penchant for the ...