The two masterpieces on the current Seattle Symphony program would be enough to attract any music lover: Beethoven’s great (and only) Violin Concerto, and Prokofiev’s fiery Fifth Symphony. When the ...

My apologies for a pun right off the bat, but Matthias Pintscher was a pinch hitter. He substituted for Herbert Blomstedt at the New York Philharmonic last night. Blomstedt was scheduled to conduct ...

A blazingly beautiful all-Beethoven program: First, Hilary Hahn performs the Violin Concerto, a work of singular scope, vision, and majesty. Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 isn't performed as often as his ...

Violinist Hilary Hahn’s #100DaysofPractice gave us a glimpse into the dedication it takes to master an instrument. You can hear that practice pay off in her performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, ...

In the New York music season now ending, I did not hear a better performance than one from Hilary Hahn: The young violinist played Bach’s Sonata No. 2 in A minor, instructively and transcendently. In ...