Mozart never made it to America: getting seasick crossing the English Channel put an end to any of his seafaring fantasies. But America was frequently on Mozart's mind. In fact, his closest ...

How do you transport the priceless violin that Mozart used to compose his many masterpieces? Pop it in your hand luggage, apparently! We’re told that music philanthropist Marife Hernandez hosted a ...

Playing Mozart's music on Mozart's own violin is like reaching through 250 years of history to commune with the legendary composer, says Christoph Koncz. Koncz, the principal second violinist of the ...

The Suzuki method meets Mozart and Canada goes classical with the latest CD releases. There is even a touch of the TodiFest. Violinist Takako Nishizaki, long a staple on the Naxos label, is the ...

Jordan Hall was packed on Monday night for the first mainstage concert of the Boston Early Music Festival, an evening of Mozart’s chamber music. The performers were all accomplished period instrument ...

The violin and viola that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum ...

If you are discovering Mozart's violin concertos for the first time, here are three great recordings to get you started Gramophone's David Threasher noted in his review of Isabelle Faust's recording ...

Next week, an outstanding new recording of the complete Mozart violin concertos hits the shops. Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer is joined by Kremerata Baltica – an ensemble he founded – and Simon Bates ...

Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all but one of them in the same year—1775, when he was nineteen. The Concerto No. 1 was written two years before, possibly. Musicologists are unsure. Are they great ...

Christoph Koncz has used gut-stringed baroque instrument to record Mozart’s violin concertos When he first dared ask the keepers of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s violin if he might be allowed to try it ...