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 ...

Violinist Geneva Lewis brings her expressive artistry back to the Santa Rosa Symphony for Brahms’ Violin Concerto, and ...

When Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto in D Major premiered 127 years ago, the conductor and pianist Hans von Bülow remarked that the piece seemed almost as if it were written "against the violin," not ...

Doha, Qatar: On Saturday, May 4, the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO), with violin virtuoso Aisha Syed Castro, will bring Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77, to life at the Qatar National ...

Classical music meets Halloween and the paranormal Thursday night when the National Symphony Orchestra plays the Schumann Violin Concerto, a work buried for nearly a century and recovered — or so the ...

Brahms lived and worked under the shadow of Beethoven throughout his career. Brahms was very conscious of this – indeed, it was one of the main reasons why he took so long to compose a symphony – and ...

Karol Szymanowski's "Violin Concerto" was written in the autumn of 1916 in Zarudzie, Ukraine, on the estate of the composer's friend - Józef Jaroszyński. It is dedicated to Paweł Kochański. On this ...

Max Bruch absolutely embodied the Romantic period of Classical music. Every single one of his musical ideas is like a dictionary definition of what it meant to be a Romantic composer – extraordinary, ...

Classical music meets Halloween and the paranormal Thursday night when the National Symphony Orchestra plays the Schumann Violin Concerto, a work buried for nearly a century and recovered — or so the ...