Some of the very best recordings of Elgar’s Violin Concerto take me back in my imagination to the Queen’s Hall on November 10, 1910, when Elgar conducted Fritz Kreisler in a now legendary world ...

Jay Nordlinger on a concert of the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, with Vilde Frang, violin soloist ...

In his first recording as conductor, Pekka Kuusisto is insightful and in control, and Vilde Frang brings electricity to both concertos There are two violinists at work on this recording, and it ...

Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang calls Britten’s Violin Concerto “one of the greatest dramas in the repertoire” and has described “never feeling closer to death” than when playing the piece. What she ...

Ms. Hahn has withdrawn from all concerts through the end of November on the advice from her medical team to abstain from strenuous performance and travel as she continues to recover from a double ...

Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 16 February 2015. Following the success of her discs of Romantic violin music, Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang has recorded Mozart’s Concertos Nos. 1 and 5 'Turkish' ...

This young Norwegian violinist is being marketed in a way that has become a cliché for female classical artists. In Frang’s case, the musical goods dwarf the alluring image. She proves an unusually ...

Absolutely stunning. Had the Heifetz-Piatigorsky team tackled Enescu’s string Octet, I doubt that they would have topped this version by Vilde Frang and friends. Although a relatively early work, the ...

Mozart left five violin concertos, all written before his 20th birthday. Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang plays the first and fifth with a high-spirited vitality that is fitting for the music of a ...

The Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick panned Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in 1881, even suggesting that its finale "transfers us to a brutal and wretched jollity of a Russian holiday. We see plainly ...

Headlining the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s concerts for the next couple of weeks will be two important violinists, both appearing here for the first time. Vadim Gluzman will perform on Jan. 24 and 26 ...