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Chicago, the summer of 1893. The World's Columbian Exposition, in a hall built to show what women had made. Amy Beach was at the piano and Maud Powell had the violin, playing a Romance Beach had writt … read more

A few bars of orchestra, and the soloist is already playing. There is no introduction to speak of, no cadenza anywhere in the movement, and when the first movement runs out of things to say it does no … read more

Most people know the Bruch Violin Concerto in G minor. Fewer know that the version they play is not quite the one Bruch wrote. By the time Joseph Joachim had finished with it, he had reworked the virt … read more

It's one of the minor ironies of Sarasate's career that two of his most famous works have almost nothing to do with Spain. Zigeunerweisen draws on Hungarian and Roma folk idioms. The Carmen Fantasy ta … read more

Three composers, three masterpieces, one violinist. Édouard Lalo wrote the Symphonie espagnole for him. Saint-Saëns wrote the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for him. Bruch wrote the Sc … read more