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Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter marks Mendelssohn's bicentennial with a new recording of his Violin Concerto, which she'll also perform Saturday and next Sunday with the San Francisco Symphony.

Audiences love Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor for its warmth and frequent pyrotechnics. The concerto also features playful innovations that would have shocked—or delighted—the audience at ...

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Rachel Barton Pine, heralded as a leading interpreter of the great classical masterworks, returns by popular demand to perform the lush and lyrical Violin Concerto by Mendelssohn, under Maestro ...

American violinist Chad Hoopes was born in 1994. His debut CD pairs a work first heard in January of that year, the Violin Concerto by John Adams, with a staple from the middle of the 19th-century, ...

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Mendelssohn wrote these two concertos at the ages of 13 and 14, at a time when he was developing at astonishing speed. (He would write two of his best pieces while still in his teens, the Octet at 16 ...

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter calls Felix Mendelssohn's music "immortal." And she's not saying that just because she's released a new CD of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, or just because it happens to ...

Have you seen violinist Ray Chen's videos? On Instagram, he reaches more than a million followers with funny behind-the-scenes stories and clips of performances looking daper in Armani. He’s one to ...

Violinist Kim Bomsoli will be performing with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time. The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra will hold its regular concert at the Concert Hall of the Seoul Arts ...

The Canadian Analekta label here showcases two gifted Canadian artists, the brothers Alain and David Lefèvre, in a perky Piano Concertino by the Québec-born composer André Mathieu (1929-1968), which ...