Mischa Elman News Today

One of the finest violinists of his or any generation, Ysaÿe was also a composer of considerably greater talent than he himself was inclined to believe, says Julian Haylock. Meet the king of the violin

Born in Buffalo, Eudice Shapiro was a virtuoso violinist whose celebrity was limited to a small circle of mavens.

Gramophone’s historical recordings expert Rob Cowan shares his enthusiasm for old recordings and reveals what can be learnt from them

Despite its troubled early reception, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto has become a favourite among soloists and audiences. Mark Pullinger considers recordings spanning 70 years and selects his overall top choice

Julie Andrews sang Lerner and Loewe on this week's Music by Request. There were also requests for piano, percussion and Traverse Symphony Orchestra performances.

Reviews of the year’s notable new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Have you by any chance been hanging on to your grandparents’ old 78 rpm records? Carting them around, perhaps, and storing them on shelves or in boxes whenever you’ve moved from place to place?

Esther was born in 1877 in London of German/Jewish descent.  At the age of five, she made her first public appearance in London as a pianist and won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music - an amazing opportunity for such a young child – but unfortunately, she was not able to take it…

Todays column is part of a series about a famous Arkansas Gazette reporter, Joe Wirges, who ran for office in 1922.

The 1714 "da Vinci, ex-Seidel" Stradivari was sold on Thursday for $15.34 million, a price for a Strad violin that is second only to the "Lady Blunt" Strad, sold in 2011 for $15.9 million. Both violins were sold through Tarisio Auctions. The "Golden Period" Strad was used for almost 40 years by Russian-American violinist Toscha Seidel (1899-1962), who was once a classmate of Jascha Heifetz, Efrem Zimbalist, Mischa Elman and Nathan Milstein in the studio of Leopold ...