Vivaldi's sequence of four concertos for violin and orchestra, the so-called "Four Seasons," have over the years acted as a magnet for the great and the good, and many more besides. Christian Li is a mere 13 years old. What were you doing at 13? Like

It was fascinating to see, last Thursday evening (September 9)  the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra in the German Premiere of Rebecca Saunders' piano concerto ... to an utterance at the Phiharmonie in Berlin; the soloist was Nic Hodges. The concert was conducted by Enno Poppe, better known in the UK

Four works of chamber music here,  representing all of Sir William Walton’s chamber music involving both violin and piano, spanning the years 1918 and 1950. Part of a Guildhall School research project entitled ‘Walton: his voice through the violin’, inspired by violinist Matthew Jones’s lifelong love of Walton’

Volume 35 of BR Klassik's Musica Viva series centres on the composer Rebecca Saunders, winner of the Siemens Prize in 2019 (you can read my report of the prizewnners' concert here [https://seenandheard-international.com/2019/06/a-terrific-evening-of-contemporary-music-shows-the-worth-of-the-ernst-von-siemens-musikpreis/] ). Saunder's Piano Concerto to an utterance to a

Nice to add a sort of semi-didactic element to a post - I've learned loads via this disc, which centres on "virtuoso violin ornamentation from the dawn of the Italian Baroque"; the years around 1600, in other words. Billed as the "Monteverdi String Band In