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 ...

Arguably the most instantly recognisable and dramatic pieces of music ever written for the instrument, Elgar’s Cello Concerto is one of the greatest pieces of music written in the early 20th century.

The Cleveland Orchestra, led by Kevin John Edusei, performed dance-inspired works, featuring Mark Kosower in Martinů's Cello ...

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Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule 1 Adagio – Moderato The Cello Concerto was the last important work that ...

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, ...

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 ...

As the piece turns 100, Ivan Hewett pays tribute to one of the great works of the 20th century This year marks the centenary of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a piece that is dear to the heart of so ...

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 ...

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 ...