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, ...

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

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.

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 ...

It was a concerto, her 2001 work for violin, that won Unsuk Chin the high-profile Grawemeyer award for music three years later. The three works here – the Piano Concerto composed in 1997, the other ...

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Concerto for Cello and Strings Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca Walter Vestidello, Cello Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Concerto for Cello and Strings Walter Vestidello, Cello Antonio Vivaldi, Composer ...

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 ...

Truls Mørk performs Shostakovich's first cello concerto with the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin and conductor Tabita Berglund. In Metacosmos, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir captures the dynamic of plunging ...