Classical music meets Halloween and the paranormal Thursday night when the National Symphony Orchestra plays the Schumann Violin Concerto, a work buried for nearly a century and recovered — or so the ...

Anthony Marwood is the latest violinist to go into bat on behalf of Schumann's late and much criticised D minor Violin Concerto, a work that was completed in 1853, but withheld by Clara Schumann after ...

The concerto is the consummate musical form for instrumental virtuosity – but which ones are the best of the best? Most commonly written for the violin, piano or cello, concertos make up some of the ...

How significant is the conductor’s role in big concertos? Regarding Dvořák’s Violin Concerto sample Itzhak Perlman’s recording with the LPO (Warner Classics, 10/75), and although Perlman himself plays ...