All Mozart Violin Concertos articles
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Dmitry Sitkovetsky on Mozart Violin Concerto no.5 first movement
Violinist and conductor Dmitry Sitkovetsky uncovers a wealth of brilliant concepts in this masterpiece and demonstrates how an awareness of the whole is what brings a performance to life
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Ray Chen on Mozart Violin Concerto no.3
Ray Chen gives bowings, fingerings and ideas for interpretation in the first movement of the popular G major Concerto K216
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FocusThe Strad Podcast Episode #31: Nils Mönkemeyer on Mozart Sinfonia Concertante
The violist speaks about the spontaneity and openness of performing a work that is part solo and part chamber music, as well as what he really thinks about playing the viola part scordatura
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FocusMasterclass: Maxim Vengerov on Mozart Sinfonia Concertante K364
This masterwork is often treated as a party piece, but there is much more to it than that. Understanding harmony, history and opera is vital in performing it, says Maxim Vengerov, in this article from February 2007
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VideoViolinist Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider performs Mozart Violin Concerto no.5
Continuing our theme of exploring the Mozart Violin Concertos, here’s a throwback to 2006, the year in which Szeps-Znaider provided a masterclass on the first movement for The Strad
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FocusThe Strad Podcast Episode #29: Julia Fischer on Mozart Violin Concertos
‘I played the first movement of the G major concerto in the Philharmonie in Munich when I was eight’
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FocusMasterclass: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider on Mozart Violin Concerto no.5
The simplicity and purity of the master’s violin concertos belie their great technical and musical demands. Violinist Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider delves beneath the surface, in this article from August 2006
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VideoHenning Kraggerud performs Mozart Violin Concerto no.4
Kraggerud directs the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra in this performance from 2015
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Focus‘A feeling of waves and lightness’ - Francesca Dego on performing Mozart Violin Concerto no.4
Violinist Francesca Dego guides us through the finale to Mozart’s Violin Concerto no.4, illustrating how working with an orchestra can help maintain ‘the big picture’