As the pianist and writer about music Charles Rosen put it, "it's like tightrope walkers. Unless you start when you're four you tend to fall off." While it is true that almost all professional ...

This young Norwegian violinist is being marketed in a way that has become a cliché for female classical artists. In Frang’s case, the musical goods dwarf the alluring image. She proves an unusually ...

There’s a sweet spot for young artists after they’ve started to be recognized but before they’ve gotten really famous. Actually, the sweet spot is for audiences who get to hear them in intimate venues ...

In his first recording as conductor, Pekka Kuusisto is insightful and in control, and Vilde Frang brings electricity to both concertos There are two violinists at work on this recording, and it ...

Ms. Hahn has withdrawn from all concerts through the end of November on the advice from her medical team to abstain from strenuous performance and travel as she continues to recover from a double ...

(La) Capricciosa Franz Ries, Composer Vilde Frang, Violin José Gallardo, Piano Myrthen, Movements: No. 1, Widmung (wds. Rückert) Robert Schumann, Composer Vilde Frang, Violin José Gallardo, Piano (2) ...

Violinist Olwen Miles recounts her experience as part of the joint Royal Academy of Music and Juilliard School orchestra ...

Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page. A cartoonish evening at the symphony on Tuesday began with Berlioz’s Corsair overture, replacement ...

Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 16 February 2015. Following the success of her discs of Romantic violin music, Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang has recorded Mozart’s Concertos Nos. 1 and 5 'Turkish' ...

The top billing went to Strauss’ epic “Also Sprach Zarathustra.” The scene-stealer at Seattle Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night, however, was the young Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang and her ...

Vilde Frang tends to attract adjectives like feisty, quirky, organic, irreverent. "There is nothing polished or calculated about her playing," wrote one German critic; "Vilde Frang is only herself," ...

Some of the very best recordings of Elgar’s Violin Concerto take me back in my imagination to the Queen’s Hall on November 10, 1910, when Elgar conducted Fritz Kreisler in a now legendary world ...