A performance full of finely realised detail and lacking in bombast ensures these two great and contrasting British cello concertos shine Two great British cello concertos, one extremely well known, ...

Sterling Elliott triumphs over the Royal Albert Hall in this note-perfect rendition of the first and second movements of ...

Cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper will join the Beer sheva Sinfonietta under the baton of Music Director Constantine Orbelian at Performing Arts Center Beer sheva in July.

This is one of the two most performed cello concertos in the world (the other being by Elgar) and with such a story to tell that it would make a great weepy all on its own. Like the New World Symphony ...

Sometimes a recording comes along that you feel you've been waiting your whole life for. Like so many of us living in a Delius-drought, I and countless others have been longing for a disc to be ...

Somebody once said that the way Elgar chooses to open his Cello Concerto, with those tortured chords sounding as if they have to be excavated from the cello face, is as if Shakespeare had started ...

Hans Pfitzner wrote three cello concertos, the first as a 19-year-old in 1888 (eight years before the première of Dvorak's great Concerto in B minor). The others were in 1935 and 1943, when Pfitzner ...

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 ...

Music of profound sorrow and exceptional beauty: Elgar’s Cello Concerto is a phoenix rising from the ashes of a world at war, an elegiac lament for an England lost forever. Much of Edward Elgar’s ...

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 ...

Dorilla in Tempe, Movements: Sinfonia Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Georg Kallweit, Conductor Jean-Guihen Queyras, Cello Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Concerto for Cello and Strings Akademie für Alte ...