Can a good workman give credit to his tools? According to the young champion violinist Ray Chen, they can. They say that recordings, books, films and paintings don’t happen by themselves, and he’s not ...
Despite its troubled early reception, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto has become a favourite among soloists and audiences. Mark Pullinger considers recordings spanning 70 years and selects his overall ...
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 ...
Kirill Gerstein’s supreme musicianship helped reveal Tchaikovsky’s original intentions in his Piano Concerto No 1 this year, both on disc and at the Proms. Now the violin concerto comes under the ...
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Julia Fischer, Violin Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Yakov Kreizberg, Conductor Russian National Orchestra Sérénade mélancolique Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, ...
Teodor Currentzis and his MusicAeterna are a welcome astringent in the modern recording world, giving us daring period takes on Così fan Tutte and Le nozze di Figaro and making Rameau’s wonderfully ...
Taiwanese-Australian violinist Ray Chen gives us all a lesson in how to recover an unexpected instrument mishap without missing a beat. While performing Tchaikovsky’s majestic Violin Concerto with the ...
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 ...
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