Nikolaj Znaider is the violinist in the Violin Concerto by Tchaikovsky. Valery Gergiev leads the Rotterdam Philharmonic.

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 ...

The ubiquitous Tchaikovsky concerto is given a radiant facelift here by two musicians who have a marked instinct for the tone of the music. Ashkenazy, conducting his Sydney Symphony, understands the ...

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 ...

“Where words fail, music speaks,” said Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra based in DuPage County, presents concerts featuring works tied together ...

Sometimes even when things go wrong, everything comes out right. Such was the case Sunday afternoon in the Klein Music Tent for violinist Augustin Hadelich. Just as he and the Aspen Festival Orchestra ...

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 ...