Mozart's concertos are still some of the most widely performed - horn concertos, clarinet concertos, violin concertos, piano concertos... They're all as popular as they ever were, but why? Showing off ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two decades on from his Deutsche Grammophon recordings, the Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer revisits Mozart's Violin Concertos, this time in the company of his own group, Kremerata Baltica. It's almost ...
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 ...