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 ...

Sir Yehudi Menuhin's second recording of Bartok's Second Violin Concerto under Antal Dorati (he made three with him in all, plus one under Furtwangler, now on EMI References, 10/89) was taped at ...

Isabelle Faust, as she explains in her excellent booklet notes accompanying this CD, has a particular penchant for the violin music of Bartók, fostered by her studies with a violinist who knew the ...

Florida Orchestra concertmaster Jeffrey Multer gave a stunning performance Friday of one of the most interesting, as well as notoriously difficult, pieces in the violin repertoire: Béla Bartók's ...

Bartók's two violin concertos were composed three decades apart, and Isabelle Faust here skilfully brings out the contrasts between youth and maturity, particularly in her detailed attention to the ...

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 ...

Isabelle Faust made her debut with Stuttgart's Bach-Collegium, recorded as part of the Hanssler label's reputable Bachakadamie edition. Moving to Harmonia Mundi in 2003 enabled the German violinist to ...

Leonidas Kavakos appeared in both the Double Concerto and the Violin Concerto during Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus's Brahms residency at the Barbican in London in October. Their superb ...

The opening movement of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto has a kind of confused identity. Is it a fast movement or a slow one in disguise? Years ago I heard a performance so strung- out it sounded as if ...

Here’s yet another fearsomely talented young violinist making her mark on CD, this time the German-Japanese Arabella Steinbacher. She brings great warmth to the lyrical First Concerto by Bartók, ...

Brahms and Bartók make unlikely companions. In playing the Brahms concerto so introspectively and then focusing on the sense of mystery that opens Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1 Janine Jansen finds a ...

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 ...