Since he began composing in the 1950s, Christian Wolff has made the embrace of the unexpected a central part of his work. As just a teenager studying with John Cage, the Nice-born composer became the ...

Music for unaccompanied violin reminds me of the “challenging” category on the sushi menu. It’s not for everybody. There’s a certain stark nakedness about it. Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili ...

The Devil’s Violin is a lively and richly textured program by the Australian Chamber Orchestra that lives up to its highly ...

Classic FM’s Artist in Residence, Maxim Vengerov, reveals – and plays – the pieces of violin music closest to his heart. “People often ask me ‘what are the five pieces you would take to a desert ...

Violin pieces are an essential element of the musical output of Grażyna Bacewicz. In the works written for this instrument the composer - being a very good violin player herself - uses her profound ...

More info: The program will include five pieces, Sarasate’s ‘Carmen’ Fantasy and Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise among them. As his concert tours were canceled this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic and ...

Conductor Andrew Davis and warm-toned soloist James Ehnes vividly connect Berg’s early music to his later scores and the composers who were his models Alban Berg’s two best known orchestral works ...

When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday; doors open 1½ hours prior and pre-concert lecture begins 1 hour prior Where: Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. Tickets: $39-88; online at ...

Rudolf Botta was an inspirational and influential violin teacher - and a refugee who found a welcome in the UK sixty years ago. He touched composer Philip Venables’ life and inspired his newest work ...