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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The star violinist’s appearance as artist in residence included an announcement that she had received the $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize. By Joshua Barone With #100daysofpractice, the star violinist has ...

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, ...