

A favorite warhorse of violin virtuosos until the 1950s, Karl Goldmark’s A minor Concerto’s fortune has progressively faded out. This excellent new recording makes a

Far from being Richard Strauss’ most successful orchestral work, the early Violin Concerto in D minor conceals moments of undeniable beauty and appeal. The grandiose

Robert Craft’s successful survey of Schoenberg’s orchestral and chamber works continues with this important disc, which couples Schoenberg’s (recently) popular orchestration of the Brahms G

Fans of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto will need no urging from me to snap up this classic performance, which, in Josef Suk features one of our

Recorded live in concert at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, December 1986, the Richter-Kagan-Gutman Tchaikovsky trio has circulated on an impossible-to-find Japanese Laser Disc, which

On December 28th, 1941, Dimitri Mitropoulos led the New York Philharmonic in a concert commemorating the music of Busoni, with whom the Greek conductor studied

Back in 1970, Kyung Wha Chung’s early success helped to open the doors of international concert halls to dozens of Asian violinistic “Wunderkinder”. Thirty years

Collectors familiar with Ulf Wallin and Roland Pöntinen’s initial CPO volume devoted to Max Reger’s violin and piano music will not be disappointed with this

With its personal, concise, and disciplined but mainly reserved style, the music of English composer Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971) doesn’t have any of the usual crowd-pleasing

Bach’s three surviving violin concertos–the A minor, E major, and D minor (“double”)–have long enjoyed standard repertoire status, and their continued popularity with audiences has
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