In his last performance with the Cleveland Orchestra, pictured here, at the Smith Center in Las Vegas, violinist Nikolaj Znaider performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto. This week, in lieu of Pierre ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The program opens with Alexandre Tansman's tribute to Stravinsky, Stèle - In ...
In orchestral concerts, the opening act sometimes steals the show. That was certainly the case in Thursday”s San Francisco Symphony program at Davies Hall, when guest conductor Stephane Deneve and ...
Violinist Nikolaj Znaider is only 31, but his favorite violinists are from almost a century ago. Znaider joins us to talk about what made Jascha Heifetz so special, and then we'll hear Znaider in ...
Who would have imagined that the classical music year would limp to a close with allegations of flagrant sexual misconduct scarring the careers of several prominent conductors? At times like these, ...
It's one of those hoary musical anecdotes, to be taken with salt. A society hostess invited the great violinist Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) to a dinner party. "Of course you'll bring your violin?" ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Manfred Honeck will return to the New York Philharmonic to conduct Sibelius's ...
To the extent that anyone talks about Nielsen’s concertos at all, it’s the two late ones for flute and clarinet that get all the attention. Nobody, it seems, has any love to spare for the Violin ...