Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is not unusual for musicians to talk about their instruments as though they were temperamental spouses. But ...

The Suzuki method meets Mozart and Canada goes classical with the latest CD releases. There is even a touch of the TodiFest. Violinist Takako Nishizaki, long a staple on the Naxos label, is the ...

Jordan Hall was packed on Monday night for the first mainstage concert of the Boston Early Music Festival, an evening of Mozart’s chamber music. The performers were all accomplished period instrument ...

The violin and viola that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum ...

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 ...

Next week, an outstanding new recording of the complete Mozart violin concertos hits the shops. Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer is joined by Kremerata Baltica – an ensemble he founded – and Simon Bates ...

A lone violin piece that replaced one of Mozart's concerto movements, this piece has become legendary in its own right. In addition to his five complete violin concertos, Mozart composed a few ...

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 ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 4 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer London Symphony Orchestra Nikolaj Znaider, Conductor, Violin Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 5, "Turkish" Nikolaj ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 Julien Chauvin, Conductor, Violin Le Concert de la Loge Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter" Julien Chauvin, Conductor Le Concert de la Loge (Le) nozze di Figaro, '(The) ...

Brendan Slocumb remembers that moment that classical music just clicked for him. BRENDAN SLOCUMB: The first piece of classical music that I heard was Mozart's "Symphony No. 40." (SOUNDBITE OF ...