Completed in 1919, the Cello Concerto was Edward Elgar's last major work for orchestra, and his most confessional. In spite of fleeting moments of idyllic release, it's dominated by disillusionment, ...

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, ...

Steven Isserlis, cello; other soloists; Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Roger Norrington, conductor (RCA Victor). Schumann: Cello Concerto Isserlis, cello; Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Christoph ...

Anna Clyne’s impressive new work is a cello concerto inspired by Persian poetry and outshining the familiar Elgar work in Inbal Segev’s performance Dance is Anna Clyne’s hugely impressive new cello ...

I met Johannes again at the Dusseldorf. Tonhalle. It's funny that the master symphonist Brahms ended up writing for his last symphonic work, not a symphony, but a concerto for two instruments. Yeah, ...

Robert DeMaine knows something about the “king of all cello concertos” since he possesses the Stradivarius made in 1684 that was used for the composition’s premier performance two centuries later.

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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, ...

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Christian Poltéra, Cello Malmö Symphony Orchestra Arthur Honegger, Composer Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen, Conductor Sonata for Cello and Piano Christian Poltéra, Cello ...

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 ...