Learning a Violin Concerto by Heart
It is now a couple of weeks since I performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto for the first time with an orchestra. Many people have said it’s not a work violinists should attempt before the age of 40 and as I am rapidly approaching that age (big birthday next year!) and have loved that piece for the last 32 years of [...]
Coming Out of the Silence
I have recently been learning the Beethoven violin concerto from memory for a performance last Saturday with a local orchestra, and the whole process has been full of insights and rewards at every step. Like few other works of this kind for the violin, the Beethoven is a true journey which organically develops from the opening, magical [...]
