Both the Penderecki (1982) and Halffter (1985) cello concertos were written for Mstislav Rostropovich and are further tributes to that artist`s unwavering commitment to the contemporary cello ...

3 ICYMI: Next On Stage: Season 5- Meet the Top 5 4 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists The Santa Rosa Symphony, Francesco Lecce-Chong, Music Director, has announced Ellen as Artistic ...

Antonin Dvorak composed “Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B Minor” in 1894. But the cello on which this piece will be played on Saturday and Sunday, April 9–10, in Grand Junction is older than that ...

Clemens Schuldt kept the volume high in an inconsistent evening in which the BBC Symphony Orchestra ranged across Tchaikovsky’s Hamlet, Mel Bonis’s Ophélie and a suite from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier ...

Ever since those unforgettable umbrellas of Cherbourg the sun has been shining on Michel Legrand. Here he is showing how the classical concerto can be reinvigorated with infusions from popular songs, ...

In Esa-Pekka Salonen’s radiant and surprisingly hopeful new Cello Concerto, Yo-Yo Ma is asked to be a combination wave-maker and cloud seeder. What with our winter of drought, those are not unwelcome ...

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performs Robert Schumann's cello concerto with Umberto Clerici. Despite being raised by non-musician parents, cellist and conductor Umberto Clerici and his brother ...

Shostakovich wrote his First Cello Concerto for the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. He loved it so much, he learnt the whole piece off-by-heart in four days. Timecodes refer to the ...

The Boston Chamber Symphony will present Classical Romantics on Saturday, February 14, 2026, at 7:30 p.m., featuring Franz ...

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 ...

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 Symphony ...