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The young Belgian violinist Yossif Ivanov (born 1986) here tackles two key 20th-century concertos, Bartók’s Second of 1938 and Shostakovich’s First, which was written in 1948 but kept in a drawer ...

There’s a thing that some classical musicians do when they see a folk tune, and French violinist Augustin Dumay does it here. Bartók marked the opening of his Second Violin Concerto “tempo di ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Romantic” is not the first word that comes to mind with Bartók, but there is no mistaking the romantic influences ...

Rhapsody No. 1 Béla Bartók, Composer Tanja Becker-Bender, Violin Péter Nagy, Piano Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 Béla Bartók, Composer Péter Nagy, Piano Tanja Becker-Bender, Violin Rhapsody No. 2 ...

Last year, Janine Jansen filled Auckland Town Hall playing Tchaikovsky with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, her performance melting all but the stoniest of hearts. The Dutch violinist's new CD ...

Gil Shaham’s survey of the violin concertos of the 1930s arrives at two works that see their composers at their most lyrical. Prokofiev’s initial idea for the work that became his Violin Concerto No 2 ...

Bartok: Sonata for Solo Violin; 44 Duos for Two Violins, Books I-IV Gyorgy Pauk, Kazuki Sawa, violins (Naxos). Having recorded most of the mainstream repertoire, the Naxos budget label is now moving ...

Banjo wizard Béla Fleck has crafted a fascinating career from infiltration. He's embedded his instrument in musical zones from jazz to classical to West African music. Now he's written himself a ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 Peter Eötvös, Conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Violin Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Béla Bartók, Composer Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Peter Eötvös, ...