Partway through his recital of Mozart and Schubert violin sonatas with Andrew Manze in the Doheny Mansion at Mount St. Mary’s College on Wednesday night, Richard Egarr stopped to describe his ...
The idea of a concept album built around violin fantasies from various periods by composers with distinctly different voices is so good I’m surprised other fiddlers haven’t ventured it. Jennifer Koh, ...
SF Symphony Collaborative Partners Bryce Dessner--a composer, songwriter, and founding member of the band The National--and violinist Pekka Kuusisto--lauded for bridging genres and bringing fresh ...
Unlike Gil Shaham and Goeran Soellscher’s earlier collaboration on DG, “Paganini for Two,” their new Schubert disc consists entirely of transcriptions. (Well, almost entirely: Schubert himself ...
Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cedric Tiberghien, both former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, combine to perform all three of Schubert's Violin Sonatinas, live at Wigmore Hall in London.
The fruitful artistic partnership between Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien has already yielded Hyperion discs of Ravel (CDA67820) and Szymanowski (CDA67703). Here they turn their attention to ...
Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, D. 574, Op. Posth. 162: I. Allegro moderato Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, D. 574, Op. Posth. 162: II. Scherzo ...
Having risen like a phoenix back into the classical mainstream, pianist Leon Fleisher was ready to move on to new projects, like the cycle of Schubert violin/piano sonatas that he is performing with ...
One of classical music’s great melodies is now a viral duet, thanks to this lyrical washing machine. A catchy classical melody sometimes pops up in the most unexpected places. And wherever there’s a ...