An unplayable finale and a meddling violin teacher? Jane Jones sheds light on the story behind Barber's only Violin Concerto. The American composer Samuel Barber was – depending on who you talk to – ...

Given the great success of the Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber could have been forgiven for resting on his musical laurels in the late 1930s. But the American composer was having none of it: he set ...

Every now and then, a little wheeling and dealing goes into a new piece of music. That's especially true in the case of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, performed in concert here by James Ehnes at the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook At the New York Philharmonic, concertos by Samuel Barber and Wynton Marsalis offered contrasting musical ideas: lyrical cohesion and ...

On Oct. 2, 4 and 5, global violin sensation Sarah Chang joins the Houston Symphony for a performance of Barber’s intensely lyrical Violin Concerto. The Korean-American violinist has been touted by The ...

It’s not news that Augustin Hadelich played an immaculate, astonishing Barber Violin Concerto on Sunday’s Aspen Festival ...

We’ve got the Parker boys on piano, and Isabel Bayrakdarian on voice—so the CBC was clearly in need of a poster boy for violin to add to its roster. Which is where James Ehnes comes in. In the past 11 ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Stella Chen, Violin Academy of St Martin in the Fields Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Conductor Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Stella Chen, Violin Academy of St Martin in ...

The violin concertos by William Walton and Samuel Barber are almost exactly contemporary – the Walton received its first performance in 1939, two years before the Barber – and they share not only a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dance Review By Roslyn Sulcas Three ballets choreographed to violin concertos could have been a nice idea on paper but a bad one in practice.