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Vilde Frang revealed the expressionistic bones of Korngold’s Violin Concerto in her performance of this 1945 work, part of a concert that included Imogen Holst’s Persephone and a drama-filled reading ...

As the pianist and writer about music Charles Rosen put it, "it's like tightrope walkers. Unless you start when you're four you tend to fall off." While it is true that almost all professional ...

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 Hahn has withdrawn from all concerts through the end of November on the advice from her medical team to abstain from strenuous performance and travel as she continues to recover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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The top billing went to Strauss’ epic “Also Sprach Zarathustra.” The scene-stealer at Seattle Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night, however, was the young Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang and her ...

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 ...

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 ...