Unlike his fiddle-playing British colleague Kennedy, who appeared here about a week ago, Gil Shaham does not require pop-idol accoutrements to win over his audience. An infinitely varied tone, an ...

This interview originally aired on April 21, 2021. We rebroadcast it on July 7, 2021. Gil Shaham/Eric Jacobsen and the Knights — Beethoven, Brahms: Violin Concertos (Canary Classics) Jump to CD ...

Unlike Gil Shaham and Goeran Soellscher’s earlier collaboration on DG, “Paganini for Two,” their new Schubert disc consists entirely of transcriptions. (Well, almost entirely: Schubert himself ...

Stradivarius violins are lately on the minds of many Americans, thanks to the media’s coverage of the theft and subsequent recovery of a Strad owned by the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony. One ...

Most concertos begin with the orchestra stating a theme, the soloist taking a turn at it, and then they all elaborate on it. Brahms’ Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor starts with a brief ...

Gil Shaham, one of the 21st century’s pre-eminent violinists, will perform as part of the 14th InClassica International Music Festival. Alongside the Franz Schubert Filharmonia and Spanish conductor ...

The 1930s were a vibrant time for the violin, a fact that Gil Shaham is exploring in a characteristically vivacious and thoughtful series of recordings encompassing the concertos from that decade. On ...

The Waco Symphony Orchestra opens its 2022-23 season on Sept. 29 with a concert that hits multiple sweet spots. For the WSO, it’s the presence of violinist Gil Shaham as guest artist, the latest ...

Somehow when Gil Shaham talks about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a couple of hundred years seem to vanish. Suddenly Mozart, the prodigious, 18th-century composer, could be just a continent away, a young ...

We know that Gil Shaham is a magician with a violin. Who knew he could control the weather, too? A thunderous downpour began one hour before Sunday afternoon’s Aspen Festival Orchestra concert at the ...

“These pieces have some kind of sibling connection. They are born of the same muse.” That’s what noted violinist Gil Shaham said recently about the violin concertos by Beethoven and Brahms, works he ...

SCHENECTADY — The legend behind ‘Butterfly Lovers Concerto’ is a folk tale as old as time itself, but the music for solo violin and orchestra by Chinese composers Chen Gang and He Zhanhao is rarely ...