The piece was first performed in Warsaw by two outstanding musicians, violinist Paweł Kochański and pianist Artur Rubinstein, on 3rd April 1909. "as such it must be the greatest instrumental work of ...

These pieces of music are all terrifyingly ambitious and virtuosic – and they might just make your fingers bleed. Here are the most difficult pieces ever written for the violin. Looking for some ...

ABC Classic is proud to release the latest instalment in its composer commission series with this world premiere recording of Alex Turley’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, featuring violinist Anna da ...

The booklet for this CD maintains that César Franck’s Piano Quintet is “organised cynically”. This is presumably a misprint for “cyclically”, since there is nothing remotely cynical about this bold, ...