It’s a bleak and overcast day in Warsaw, but Maxim Vengerov seems to have brought some Mediterranean sunshine with him from his Monaco home. He’s in the Polish capital to rehearse music by Mozart and ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the 19th century travelling violinists such as Paganini and Sarasate were hugely popular in virtuoso recitals. The ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The last time many of us heard violinist Maxim Vengerov, he performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Melbourne Symphony ...

It all began with a Maxim Vengerov recital: A little girl in the audience, who, like most kids her age enjoyed singing tunes from the Pororo cartoon series, found herself suddenly drawn to the world ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. But for an accident of orchestral seating, the world might have lost what many consider the world's leading violinist. Maxim ...

Vengerov, 41, is one of classical music’s great showmen. A Siberian child prodigy, he burst on the stage in his teens as the unlikely new rock star face of a venerable Russian-Jewish violin tradition ...

There are two potential problems with recitals consisting of virtuoso bonbons: the first is that they tend to be less nourishing than main courses; the second is what to do as an encore. Maxim ...

It's been a particularly good year for memorable recordings by young violinists what with Nikolaj Znaider (RCA), Ilya Gringolts (DG) and Antal Szalai (BMC). Now Armenian-born Sergey Khachatryan's new ...