As you wrap up your year, here are some of CapRadio Music's classical music hosts' favorite pieces from 2021. Victor Forman, Jennifer Reason and Mike Nelson write…..Classical music can be both timeless and intimately connected to the times we are living through today. As new music is written and old favorites reinterpreted, the music can connect the past to the present and the future. Included on capradio's...

Daniel Hope says; “Music doesn't let me go. I always knew that it was the focus of my life, but it became a lifeline,” violinist Daniel Hope said about the pandemic. “It became a lifeline to the outside world. It was the luxury of time and connections to so many musicians that were willing to experiment and improvise that helped me find hope.”That resulted in his most creative project to date, his new recor...

"The real legacy of Schnittke's music is its multidimensional exploration of what musical truth in the twentieth century might be, from chaotic polystylism to heartfelt spirituality." - The Guardian This podcast focuses on violinist Daniel Hope's encounter with one of the twentieth century's most original and fascinating composers; Alfred Schnittke. LISTEN Mr. Hope was fifteen when he first heard...

When the first European lockdowns began last March, the multi-talented British violinist Daniel Hope immediately sprang to action with a DIY show called Hope@Home. Hope -- who has experience writing, producing and broadcasting - seemingly overnight created a high-production, high-quality show which he broadcast every single day six weeks from his living room in Berlin. It's lovely to watch, and h...

"Hope@Home" features a selection of the livestream concerts that violinist Daniel Hope presented during his period of social distancing. Performed from his living room in Berlin as well as with an assortment of prestigious guests for Arte Concert, "Hope@Home" includes appearances from Christoph Israel, Max Raabe, Till Brönner, Joy Denalane, Matthias Goerne, and Jacques Ammon, among others. Hope comm...

It didn't take violinist Daniel Hope long to pivot in the pandemic era. By the end of March, this "he's everywhere" artist had launched Hope@Home, a series of livestreamed salons featuring fellow performers of all sorts, from pianist-composer Christoph Israel to singers, actor Sebastian Koch (Homeland), and even a pair of post horn players. The "@Home" designation was literal at first, with Hope and ...

The Belle Époque, the period between the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and the outbreak of World War One in 1914, was a time of apparent peace and prosperity but with a darker reality of social and economic deprivation lying not far beneath its gilded surface. This era of creativity and contradiction has long fascinated Daniel Hope: "I often wish I had a time machine to go back to the sal...

Violinist Daniel Hope has been soloist, first violinist, guest conductor, and "artistic partner" with the ensemble, and yet when he leads the New Century Chamber Orchestra Feb. 7-10, it will be a notable debut, his first appearance as new music director. The NCCO's theme is "recomposition," with Max Richter's Recomposed: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, from Hope's 2012 bestselling Deutsche Grammophon a...

From March 28 through April 13, 2019, the Savannah Music Festival (SMF) celebrates its landmark 30th season with a stellar lineup of concerts, recitals, dance parties and presentations, and family-friendly performances in nine venues across Savannah's Historic District. From its origins as Savannah On Stage, SMF has grown to become one of the nation's leading multi-disciplinary musical arts events, disti...

The organisers of a charity concert in Heidelberg, Germany, are taking an unusual approach to ticket sales to the 23 November Stadthalle Heidelberg concert featuring violinist Daniel Hope with the ensemble L'Arte del Mondo under Werner Ehrhardt in Vivaldi's Four Seasons, followed by Max Richter's 2012 reinterpretation of the piece, ‘Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seas...

‘I am completely in awe at the scale of his genius,' writes Daniel Hope about Mozart. A pure Mozart album would be too easy, though, and Hope takes the thoughtful route – a ‘Journey to Mozart'. So there's one of Haydn's charming but light concertos and slow movements by Josef Mysliveček – a friend and mentor of Mozart's – and Johann Peter Salomon, the violinist who enti...

"EVERY time I play Mozart I can only shake my head, because I can't even begin to fathom the scale of his genius." So says dynamic British violinist Daniel Hope. His Journey to Mozart is out now. The album features pieces by Christoph Willibald Gluck, a key figure in the transition from the Baroque to Classical periods, Joseph Haydn and two lesser figures, eclipsed by Mozart, in the Czech Josef M...

The Zurich Chamber Orchestra has announced the contract extension of Music Director Daniel Hope - through to the end of the 2021/2022 season. The 44 year old British violin virtuoso joined the ensemble in the 2014 as their artist-in-residence – before being promoted to the music directorship in January 2016. "I am delighted to be extending my contract with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra ahead of time...

After some off-the-beaten-track recordings, violinist Daniel Hope returns to core repertory with his latest, Journey to Mozart. Music of Mozart (of course), including his popular Violin Concerto #3, plus works by Mozart contemporaries: Haydn, Gluck, Myslivecek, and Salomon. Hope is joined on the album by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. For the Week of March 5th 2018, the KDFC: San Francisco pick for Al...

After some off-the-beaten-track recordings, violinist Daniel Hope returns to core repertory with his latest, Journey to Mozart. Music of Mozart (of course), including his popular Violin Concerto #3, plus works by Mozart contemporaries: Haydn, Gluck, Myslivecek, and Salomon. Hope is joined on the album by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.   For the Week of March 5th 2018, the KUSC: ...

A stylish player and imaginative programmer, Daniel Hope would never give us just a Mozart violin concerto album. Instead, as the title implies, he leads us towards the composer, putting him in context, and taking us down some intriguing and delightful byways. So, before Mozart's ever-charming Third Concerto, he offers works by Gluck, Haydn, and Salomon. Coaxing crisp, sprightly playing from his Zurich C...

Violinist Daniel Hope   has released some ear-catching albums, especially in the past few years. Air - A Baroque Journey, released in 2010, is a staff favorite around our office - it's varied, it's zippy, and it's full of earworms. His vivacious For Seasons​, a recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons interspersed with contemporary works and supplementary art pieces, was so...

"For the Record," Violinist.com's weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists and other classical musicians, features Violinist Daniel Hope - Journey to Mozart.    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; m...

Violinist Daniel Hope has decided to celebrate Mozart's birthday with the New Century Chamber Orchestra and two (other) soloists: Menahem Pressler, and Sebastian Knauer. They'll play the Piano Concerto no. 23, on a program that includes the 29th Symphony, and Hope playing the third Violin Concerto. They'll give four Bay Area performances (Pressler will play on the birthday itself, on the 27th at Herbst T...

Daniel Hope receives the ECHO KLASSIK Award for The ‘Klassik Ohne Grenzen' Prize (Classical Without Borders). The ECHO KLASSIK trophies will be handed out on Sunday, 29 October 2017 during a gala event in the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall in Hamburg. All of the artists receiving an ECHO KLASSIK this year have made outstanding contributions to Classical Music in the 2016/17 music year. Thei...

Violinist Daniel Hope recently received a lot of attention for his work with composer Max Richter who deconstructs familiar classics by incorporating newer aesthetic sensibilities, techniques, and technology. For Seasons, not Four Seasons maintains the tremulous and and assertive elements of the Vivaldi, but new and subtly radical alterations are made both in performance style and in the use electronic i...

Concerned with nature's eternal cycle of decline and renewal, Daniel Hope's latest album for Deutsche Grammophon explores the creative relationship between music, art and the ever-changing calendar. For Seasons includes the violinist's first recording of Vivaldi's evergreen collection of seasonal concertos together with a dozen companion works associated with the months of the year. His c...

Sometimes the chore of reviewing turns to delight. I have heard recordings and performances of Vivaldi's Four Seasons beyond number, but this one, performed by violinist Daniel Hope with members of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and guests as recorded last year by Deutsche Grammophon, is something special. It is rounded out with a selection of shorter compositions, some of them arrangements by Ho...

Tune in throughout the week for tracks from KDFC: San Francisco - Album of the Week. For the Week of April 17th, KDFC selects - For Seasons by Daniel Hope. Violinist Daniel Hope's new release For Seasons, (and yes, that's the correct spelling), includes his first-ever recording of the perennial favorite, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, together with a dozen other works inspired by the seasons of the ...

Violinist Daniel Hope's new album, "For Seasons," is inspired by the perennial Vivaldi concerto cycle known as The Four Seasons. Hope began learning the Vivaldi concertos at age 7, performing them live for the first time only six years later. As Hope's career continued to evolve and expose him to new music, The Four Seasons always held a special place in his heart. Finally, after accepting the position a...

Daniel Hope is not only one of the most talented musicians of our time, but also one of the most imaginative, seemingly incapable of making a dull or predictable album. This is no exception. The first half is taken up with an eloquent performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, where, as well as contributing some dazzling violin solos, Hope also directs the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, a band of which he is musi...

Since the inception of recording technology, hundreds of recordings of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons have been captured by one brilliant mind after the next. With so many excellent recordings out there already, how can a soloist bring a fresh approach to the set of four violin concertos? One violinist has managed to do just that: Daniel Hope, Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. There's no wa...

Celebrated for his musical versatility as well as his dedication to humanitarian causes, Daniel Hope has been associate artistic director of the Savannah Music Festival since 2004, with his contract recently extended through the 2018 season. Concerned with nature's eternal cycle of decline and renewal, Hope's latest album for Deutsche Grammophon explores the creative relationship between musi...

p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; min-height: 12.0px} Violinist Daniel Hope presents a personal celebration of the seasons on this new album. His first recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons is complemented by 12 pieces linked to the months of the year, ranging from Bach and Rameau to Aphex Twin and Chilly Gonzales, and conveying the feelings and emotions associated with th...

Ever since the announcement by New Century Chamber Orchestra that its music director will leave at the end of the current season, the organization has been faced with Mission Impossible: replacing the irrepressible and - not to mince words - irreplaceable Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. And yet, the news today is of success. Taking the first chair (with some constraints) will be Daniel Hope, a violinist very m...

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Daniel Hope plays the violin in a business suit and tie. But there's nothing strait-laced about his platform manner. He bobs, he bounces, he bends almost double – turning round to face the members of the L'Arte del Mondo orchestra, nodding, and all the while spinning a rich, glittering stream of notes. He reminded me of someone and when, as an encore, he launched into a funkily re-composed version ...

The following is an extract from The Strad's Memories of Menuhin article, featuring interviews with friends, family and colleagues of the great violinist and published in the May 2016 issue – download on desktop computer or through The Strad App. Yehudi Menuhin was the reason I became a violinist. Neither of my parents had a musical background, but my mother was Menuhin's secretary for 24 years...

One hundred years ago, on April 22, 1916, a legend was born. His name was Yehudi Menuhin and once he picked up the violin, the classical music world was never the same. Violinist and filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon describes his teacher and friend as "a normal genius" and to honor his legacy, Monsaingeon has compiled a new box set of Yehudi Menuhin's recordings. (You can enter for a chance to win that se...

The great violinist and educator Yehudi Menuhin was born 100 years ago on 22 April. Daniel Hope, one of his many star pupils, knew him from early childhood, in part because his mother was Menuhin's manager. This mixed repertoire recital, part chamber, part orchestral, draws on Menuhin's own eclectic interests: he gave the world premiere of Mendelssohn's less well-known violin concerto, in D minor, when i...

Growing up with giants - an anti-apartheid activist dad and the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin, a lifelong family friend - shaped Daniel Hope's life. Now 44 and a world-renowned violinist himself, Hope's an active supporter of Live Music Now, which brings music to hospitals and retirement homes and gives young artists a place to shine. "I use music to make a statement," says Hope, whose father co-founded...