The money from the sale of the violin, which was once owned by the 19th-century virtuoso Joseph Joachim, will benefit a ...

Stradivarius played by Joseph Joachim fetches £9m at auction - The sale is being used by the New England Conservatory to ...

Accompanied by pianist Sheng-Yuang Kuan of the Lynn University Conservatory of Music, Koljonen will play violin warhorses including J.S. Bach’s Chaconne (in D minor, from Partita No. 2), Ravel ...

It’s hard to imagine, but six concertos written in hopes of a job have become Johann Sebastian Bach’s most popular music.

Soovin Kim remembers studying Johann Sebastian Bach’s B Minor Partita, BWV 1002, for solo violin when he was 10 or 11 years — and his reaction predicted a lifetime surrounded by the music of Bach. “It ...

From Billy Joel’s inability to resist a good Beethoven melody to Lady Gaga’s sampling of rhapsodic violin solos, here are the greatest ... and use various Italian musical terms”. Music history’s most ...

Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001-1006, are the pinnacle of music for the violin with their unique mix of virtuosity and musical and emotional depth. They are also perhaps the most personal works ...

and his adaptability makes him an ideal guest for the Hermann’s Jazz Club date, where he will blend Scottish baroque-folk music with Bach for solo violin.

Shakespeare did not write musicals as we know them in the Broadway or West End form, closer now to his English roots. But incidental music, most often played ...

No baroque blowout would be complete without the music of J.S. Bach, and who better to bring out the “infectiously spritely bounce and exhilarating dramatic tension” (BBC) of his Violin ...