Amedeo Baldovino could have panicked. The ship that the cellist was on had caught fire between Uruguay and Argentina, causing him and the other two members of the Trieste Piano Trio to jump into the ...

The husband and wife team of David Finckel and Wu Han are longtime Aspen favorites. Their recitals together and independently often are among the best-attended. They seem to be able to play anything ...

Even today, 50 years after his death in October 1973 at age 96, Pablo Casals remains the world’s most celebrated cellist—the man and his instrument inextricably linked in the minds of music lovers the ...

All right, so I'm a sucker for string instruments - something that makes Scottie Rowell's already delightful Super Cello: Hero Practice even more adorable to watch. Anything that features strings as ...

Audiences usually expect high-powered musicians to step out in front of orchestras as concerto soloists. But sometimes, as in the Houston Chamber Orchestra's final concert of the season, solo players ...

Canadian-bred, New York-based cellist and composer Rufus Cappadocia is a world music traveler, having studied and performed in a variety of traditions—from American blues, folk and jazz to Spanish ...

Lots of comics come out all the time — some contemplative, some silly, some violent, and some meaningful. Once in a while, a comic comes along that's actually different. Since 2003, the writer of this ...

French cellist Gastinel has, for most of the last decade, been steadily amassing a discography that could well serve as a primer on the most essential compositions for her instrument. To that catalog, ...

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 ...