Howcast - Learn how to find good violin practice music from musician Julie Artzt Becker in this Howcast video.

Howcast - Learn what a violin concerto is from musician Julie Artzt Becker in this Howcast video.

Award-winning violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin describes the subjective element that all musicians bring to music-making.

Award-winning violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin relates the results of the fascinating double-blind tests to determine if expert musicians could tell new violins from old, and muses on how it's really hard to remove subjective...

Suzy Klein talks about the second movement in Summer from Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

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Antonio Vivaldi was an Italian composer of the Baroque era and was very well known during his time as a performer and a teacher. One of the types of music that he like to compose was called “concerto”. A concerto is a type of composition...

Suzy Klein talks about how Vivaldi uses Operatic devices to convey drama and visuals in his music.

Rachmaninoff's piano concerto No. 2 is one of his most well known pieces, but did you know that Rachmaninoff struggled with depression and writer's block before being able to write this lovely piece of music? We look at the history...

Muscia meets French pianist Hélène Grimaud as she takes to the stage with Lionel Bringuier and the LA Philharmonic Orchestra at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.





Not afraid to take...

Leonidas Kavakos has a unique timbre and a flawless techinque. In Luxemburg the Greek violin virtuso recently interpreted Stravinsky's extraordinary Violin Concerto in D major, and "Musica" was there to...

A child prodigy, Yuja Wang discovered the piano at the age of six. A year later, she gave her first concert.



Now 31, the Chinese musician is one of the most highly-regarded pianists of

our...

A child prodigy, Yuja Wang discovered the piano at the age of six. A year later, she gave her first concert.



Now 31, the Chinese musician is one of the most highly-regarded pianists of

our time....

The versatile virtuoso, Anoushka Shankar recently performed the Sitar concerto No. 2 at Lyon's Auditorium, accompanied by the Orchestre National de Lyon.



Composed by her late...