The solo violin’s entry at the end of the orchestral prelude settles the argument by resolving the first theme in B minor. Then it takes wing in a flight of ecstatic elaboration, laying claim to ...

Chen first performed the opening of Saint-Saëns’s “Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61” while Yang gently coerced a toddler into spinning the wheel so that it landed on Mendelssohn’s ...

When I first encountered Aisha Orazbayeva’s haunting, gossamer version of the Allemande and Double from the B Minor Partita, I heard her two-violin arrangement as a surreal, heterophonic micro ...

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Despite the status that Elgar’s Cello Concerto has acquired since its premiere, there is a case to be made for proposing that it was in fact the Violin Concerto that was truly the composer’s favourite ...

80, F minor Violin Sonata, and closes bathed in a beautiful, warm sunset of Johannes Brahms' Vienna, with his Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115. "like the wind blowing through the gravestones ...

Bach composed his Mass in B minor around 1748–49, a year before his death in 1750 ... The beautiful flighty soprano solo in the Laudamus te, coupled with a violin, is an outpouring of musical ...

One year on it was simply fascinating to hear another titan of the romantic repertoire — Saint-Säens' Violin Concerto No.3 In B Minor — played on the same fine antique instrument now that ...