Christoph Koncz has used gut-stringed baroque instrument to record Mozart’s violin concertos When he first dared ask the keepers of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s violin if he might be allowed to try it ...

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' ...

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 ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 Bruno Weil, Conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Lena Neudauer, Violin German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern Concerto for Violin ...

Vilde Frang is a brilliant arrival on the violin scene; it seems slightly odd to combine her piercing but heavily vibrato-laden sound with the period-instrument practices of Arcangelo. Her extrovert ...

It is hard for Mozart’s violin concertos to win attention for themselves, living as they do in the gigantic shadow cast by Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Mozart’s own sublime Sinfonia Concertante for ...

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Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 Francesca Dego, Violin Royal Scottish National Orchestra Roger Norrington, Conductor Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 Francesca Dego, Violin Royal ...

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 ...

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