On Thursday and Friday evening at Baker-Baum Concert Hall, the La Jolla Music Society presented violinist Midori in the six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach.
In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...
Musicians who perform works from before the 19th century face many challenges, including the need to decipher what the composer may have intended. The notes tell only part of the story. Allow Paul ...
Music for unaccompanied violin reminds me of the “challenging” category on the sushi menu. It’s not for everybody. There’s a certain stark nakedness about it. Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – For Alan Choo, “Violin Fantasy” is a dream come true. Not only, in the next Apollo’s Fire program, does the rotating concertmaster get to play many of his favorites with a close-knit ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook With an ear for dance and a new five-string violin, Johnny Gandelsman set out to transform a towering classic. By Joshua Barone ...
CAMBRIDGE — Bach’s Six Cello Suites are the beating, deep-souled heart of the cello repertoire. Cellists do not just perform the Suites and move on. They study them, internalize them, and map their ...
The Guitar Foundation of America recently hosted dozens of classical guitarists for six days of music at Metropolitan State University of Denver. CPR Classical was lucky enough to host three of the ...