With their epic Mozart piano concerto cycle barely out of the starting gate, Jeffrey Kahane and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra made an abrupt swerve into other matters Mozart at the Alex Theatre on ...

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 ...

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 ...

We rank the all-time great, most stirring violin concertos… from Bruch and Beethoven, to Mozart and Marsalis, here are the very best. The violin is one of the most expressive instruments in the ...

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra’s “Mozart and the Masters” program drew fervent applause last night at the Southern Theatre. The program, featuring pianist Alessio Bax and violinist and leader Vadim ...

The violin and viola that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Pekka Kuusisto breaks into an impish grin. “I’m in my late forties now, and getting to that time when everyone ...