The pieces so powerful that you’ll be out of your seat, air-conducting to the full force of an imaginary orchestra, or ...

Explore our selection of the best violin concertos featuring the greatest works by composers including Brahms, Bruch, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky. Written in 1880, Saint-Saëns’s violin concerto ...

Discover our selection of the best Mendelssohn works including ‘The Hebrides Overture’, the ‘Scottish Symphony’ and his ‘Violin Concerto’. Felix Mendelssohn composed music for William ...

Listen out for: The fast and intricate violin parts. This piece is labelled Allegro which means play at a lovely speed. Saint-Georges was one of the best violinists of his time and wrote complex ...

Note: The most famous makers of violins, such as Stradivari, Guarneri, Maggini, Amati, da Salo, and Stainer, had many followers and imitators. Often a disciple placed a facsimile label in a violin to ...

A striking work of art depicting a violinist playing in a South Bristol street has been named as one of the best new pieces of street art in the world, after it was named as a nominee in the ...

He is universally hailed as one of the world's finest violinists, if not the greatest living string player in the world today. Born into a Jewish family with musical tradition Vengerov began learning ...