A Nicolo Amati violin, made circa 1645, and two others wait to be tried out by musicians from "A Far Cry" at Reuning & Son in Brookline. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Clara Kim stood in a sun-dappled room at ...

For a little more than a minute on Saturday night, the only sound that could be heard in the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox was the pure, silvery tone of a single violin. The hundreds of people in ...

Serenade Antoni Wit, Conductor Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, Composer Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, Composer Antoni Wit, Conductor Ilya Kaler, Violin ...

How significant is the conductor’s role in big concertos? Regarding Dvořák’s Violin Concerto sample Itzhak Perlman’s recording with the LPO (Warner Classics, 10/75), and although Perlman himself plays ...

The ubiquitous Tchaikovsky concerto is given a radiant facelift here by two musicians who have a marked instinct for the tone of the music. Ashkenazy, conducting his Sydney Symphony, understands the ...

On this week’s installment of Music in the Making, we’re exploring the genre of the classical serenade, with works by Mozart and Beethoven. The word “serenade” comes from the Italian word sereno, ...