The Violin Concerto of Robert Schumann was written in the fall of 1853, at the end of the composer’s productive life, and only in 1937, more than 80 years after it was composed, did it get its first performance. It’s one of the young Chinese-born violinist Dan Zhu’s favorite concertos, and deep in the recesses of YouTube he can be seen playing it with the Schleswig-Holstein … [Read more...]