"We listen to the concert and if we close the eyes, we perhaps even think of Mozart playing the violin," he says. "There are typically two methods to deal with historic instruments. One would be ...

Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all but one of them in the same year ... Immediately, everything was better. The orchestra was playing in a rich, confident E flat. The music was both elegant and ...

Mozart had many admirers and would no doubt have countless followers on Instagram today. But did he have real friends? Or did ...

Michael Abels is not a household name — yet. If you’ve heard of him, it’s probably because he wrote the film scores to the ...

A major between two major Strauss symphonic poems did not quite work, even with violinist Lisa Batiashvili, no less. She is a ...

How do you transport the priceless violin that Mozart used to compose his many masterpieces? Pop it in your hand luggage, apparently! We’re told that music philanthropist Marife Hernandez hosted ...

I was staging "The Magic Flute" (the Mozart opera). I loved "The Magic ... one-to-one relationship that goes far beyond just playing the violin, because you can only play as good as you are ...

They are on top form here, as is Perahia, and the finesse of detail is breathtaking... This is the most beautiful of Mozart playing, his last piano concerto given here by Emil Gilels with total ...

Tucking the violin back under her chin, she returned to playing it. Was it Mozart or Beethoven? One couldn’t help but wonder – how a child so young had become a classical virtuoso and a prodigy?