Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no 2 was completed just before the composer’s return to Russia in the mid-1930s. It’s a more elusive, evasive work than its magical predecessor; fairytale enchantment ...

Mark Wood, toting a seven-string electric violin of his own design that looks more Eddie Van Halen than Itzhak Perlman, did perhaps the scariest of things. He performed for the toughest critics -- a ...