Christoph Koncz has used gut-stringed baroque instrument to record Mozart’s violin concertos When he first dared ask the keepers of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s violin if he might be allowed to try it ...

Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all but one of them in the same year—1775, when he was nineteen. The Concerto No. 1 was written two years before, possibly. Musicologists are unsure. Are they great ...

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 a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is not unusual for musicians to talk about their instruments as though they were temperamental spouses. But ...

Jordan Hall was packed on Monday night for the first mainstage concert of the Boston Early Music Festival, an evening of Mozart’s chamber music. The performers were all accomplished period instrument ...

Mozart never made it to America: getting seasick crossing the English Channel put an end to any of his seafaring fantasies. But America was frequently on Mozart's mind. In fact, his closest ...

Playing Mozart's music on Mozart's own violin is like reaching through 250 years of history to commune with the legendary composer, says Christoph Koncz. Koncz, the principal second violinist of the ...

The Singaporean violinist plays Mozart with a clean focused tone, an elegant turn of phrase and a quiet wit. As Chloe Chua points out in her notes, Mozart’s Violin Concertos were written by a teenager ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1, Movements: Allegro moderato Kremerata Baltica Gidon Kremer, Violin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 4, Movements: ...

Superb artistry shines through this excellent new release. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 5 May 2014. Born in 1981 to a German father and Japanese mother, the violinist Arabella Steinbacher has had ...

What’s the difference between a viola and a trampoline? You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline. Those damn viola jokes! Though usually good-natured and funny, they nonetheless belittle a ...

Violin Sonatas Nos 17 - 28 Renaud Capuçon, Violin Kit Armstrong, Piano Variations, '(La) bergère Célimène' Renaud Capuçon, Violin Kit Armstrong, Piano (6) Variations, 'Hélas, j'ai perdu mon amant' ...