The Cello Concerto was the last important work that Elgar wrote. Its first performance, in October 1919, with the composer himself conducting, opened the first post-war season of the London Sympho ...

Only last month I reviewed a recording of the Cello Concerto in B flat arranged by Friedrich Grutzmacher (CBS IM39964, MK39964, 2/88) that has long been Boccherini's best-known work (his famous minuet ...

To the array of recent recordings of the Haydn cello concertos, that of the young Norwegian virtuoso Truls Mork comes as a breath of fresh air—not bracing, as one might imagine from one who grew up ...

Born into a family of professional musicians, Raphael Wallfisch discovered the cello at the age of eight. At 24 he won the ...

Senja Rummukainen joins the orchestra for Elgar's Cello Concerto, a lament written in the aftermath of the First World War, for things lost, and a very personal search for a way forward.

In stark contrast to Lang Lang’s ferocious account of Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto, Yo-Yo Ma performed one of the most beautiful and calming pieces of classical music ever written: Bach’s iconic ...