10K views · 316 reactions | Beethoven may not have known Mozart’s early violin concertos but was familiar with Franz Clement's D major concerto, which Clement performed at an 1805 concert where Beethoven debuted the 3rd Symphony, Eroica. Beethoven dedicated his own concerto to Clement, who premiered it in December 1806, famously sight-reading from Beethoven's messy manuscript and performing a sonata on a single string with the violin upside down... | Cho-Liang Lin | Facebook

Violinist Gil Shaham demonstrates nearly a dozen places where the Beethoven and Brahms violin concertos mirror one another, in this interview with Laurie Niles. Gil has made a new recording of these works, with The Knights and Eric Jacobsen, that will be released March 12. Read more here: https://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/20211/28623/ | Violinist.com