Both the Penderecki (1982) and Halffter (1985) cello concertos were written for Mstislav Rostropovich and are further tributes to that artist`s unwavering commitment to the contemporary cello ...

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein will join Palm Beach Symphony for the Masterworks Series Concert at Dreyfoos Hall at the Kravis ...

In Esa-Pekka Salonen’s radiant and surprisingly hopeful new Cello Concerto, Yo-Yo Ma is asked to be a combination wave-maker and cloud seeder. What with our winter of drought, those are not unwelcome ...

Demonstrating the many facets of the cello - from growling low chords to tripping semiquaver scales in the instrument's sweet high register - Haydn redefined orchestral playing with his fantastic ...

The adage goes that Vivaldi did not so much compose hundreds of concertos as write the same concerto hundreds of times. However, this disc featuring the estimable cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras ...

"I remember the very moment," says Johannes Moser, recalling the first time he ever heard Dvorák's Cello Concerto. "My dad took me. I had just started playing the cello, I was nine years old. Onto the ...

The Cello Concerto was the last of the three scores Antonín Dvorák wrote during his three-year residency in the U.S., when he served as director of the National Conservatory in New York City from 1892 ...

Like father, like son. C P E Bach, second surviving son of the great J S, also composed a wide range of concertos, some of which (like his father’s) exist in versions for different instruments. It is ...

As with Bach’s St Matthew Passion, this disc presents an unfamiliar early version of a known masterpiece. Prokofiev wrote his Cello Concerto in the 1930s, but it failed to win favour (“grunting and ...

As bow ties are plumped and hair is coiffed for this evening’s First Night of the Proms, an orchestra will be preparing to play Elgar’s biblical oratorio The Kingdom. But that isn’t the only curtain ...