Extase Svetlin Roussev, Violin Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Conductor Eugène (Auguste) Ysaÿe, Composer Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège Divertimento Svetlin Roussev, Violin Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ...

On this week’s episode, we’re celebrating the birthday of virtuoso violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe, who was born 158 years ago on July 16th, with music by Ernest Chausson, Gabriel Fauré, César ...

Lockdown may not have served many practical purposes but in musical terms this superb home-recorded set of Ysaÿe’s Solo Violin Sonatas (composed in 1924) has provided at least one, James Ehnes having ...

The smell of coffee, and a Haydn quartet: hard not to feel that the first morning chamber concert of the Edinburgh International festival was offering an oasis of civilisation in an otherwise chaotic ...

Admirers of Thomas Zehetmair's peerless playing - for my money he is the most satisfying and musically imaginative violinist working today - will have already heard a sample of his thrilling approach ...

Fauré and Ysaÿe, contemporaries and paragons of French style, are showcased in the Society’s next program, with the musicians Anne-Marie McDermott, Wu Han, Nicolas Dautricourt, Yura Lee, and Colin ...

Alina Ibragimova: perhaps her greatest strengths are the lucidity and authority of her phrasing. Ibragivimova is an instrumentalist with more or less no technical barriers to expression, and is ...

Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), one of the towering violin virtuosos of his time (a dedicatee of Franck’s Violin Sonata and Debussy’s String Quartet), was also an important teacher, conductor and composer.