Musicians describe the thrill and pressure of performing on museum-grade instruments, whose real power lies as much in their ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Never does the Cleveland Orchestra come closer to the perfection it seeks every day than when Mitsuko Uchida is in town. When Uchida sits at the piano and presides over Mozart Piano ...

January 24, 2006 • In the last installment of the Must-Have Mozart series, the BBC's Nicholas Kenyon offers a final pick. He recommends a recording of the "Gran Partita," the Serenade, K. 361, by Sir ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 (Il) Giardino Armonico Ensemble Giovanni Antonini, Conductor Isabelle Faust, Violin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 ...

Re-discover Mozart's piano concertos with these intimate chamber orchestra recordings. Album of the Week, 4 March 2013. Combining the intimacy of a string quintet with the power of an orchestral piece ...

Classy collections usually come at a price, but the best of Universal's three-disc "Trio" packages offer both quality and quantity without breaking the bank. Take Ravel's orchestral works. Anyone ...