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, ...

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, ...

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Sébastien Hurtaud, Cello New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Northey, Conductor Cello Concerto 'Chemin des Dames' Sébastien Hurtaud, Cello New Zealand Symphony ...

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 ...

This year’s BBC Proms provide an unexpected feast of cello music. It is the first time in 126 years that the four warhorses of the concerto repertoire — Elgar, Dvořák, Saint-Saëns and Walton — have ...

NaqoyqatsiOriginal motion picture soundtrack. Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Philip Glass Ensemble conducted by Philip Glass. Directed by Godfrey Reggio; Philip Glass Ensemble conducted by Philip Glass Miramax DVD, ...

Those drawn-out opening chords are some of the most memorable in all music. Stern, sensitive and dramatic, they connect this 20th century masterpiece with another monolith of the repertoire, Bach's ...

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 ...

Though it's never been as popular as his violin concerto, the Symphonie Espagnole, Lalo's Cello Concerto is an imposing piece, composed two years after the violin work in 1876. Pieter Wispelwey pairs ...

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Jonathan Cohen, Conductor Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello Arcangelo Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Composer Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello Carl Philipp ...

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 ...