Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major Opus 61 was written in 1806, but was not a success at its premiere. 200 years on and this Concerto is regarded as one of the greatest pieces ever written for the ...

Beethoven described his 10 sonatas, written over 15 years in the "early" and "middle" periods of his career, as works "for piano and violin". We tend to think of them as the reverse: for solo violin ...

Surprisingly Beethoven only wrote one violin concerto and it proved so popular that he transcribed it for the piano too Again, only one, and given its exceptional quality and the number of first-rate ...

Beethoven’s violin sonatas have always been in the shadow of his much better-known piano sonatas and trios and quartets. They’re slight works on the whole, graceful and sprightly rather than grand, ...

The most famous of Beethoven’s violin sonatas have nicknames. The Spring is named for its air of pastoral ease – although that choice of name had nothing to do with the composer. The Kreutzer got its ...

Tremendous new releases from Kati Debretzeni and Leonidas Kavakos, plus 50 years of the Met on BBC Four Violinists who specialise in baroque music don’t tend to get the same limelight as those playing ...

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) continues its 50th anniversary celebrations with the release of a landmark new album, Beethoven & Brahms: Concertos for Violin and Orchestra, featuring Artistic ...

German violinist Anton Steck couples the Beethoven Violin Concerto with a work by the little-known violinist and composer Franz Alexander Pössinger, who appears to have been involved in editing the ...

Get a preview of Beethoven’s only violin concerto performed by the 'frighteningly awesome' Avery Fisher-winning violinist Francisco Fullana. The magic and romance of Stravinsky’s soaring Firebird ...

The Beethoven Violin Concerto represents the pinnacle of violin writing. It is the work by which violinists are judged. Jaime ...