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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The Piatigorsky International Cello Festival began big Friday night at ...

Cellist Gautier Capuçon plays Camille Saint-Säens’ Concerto for Cello No. 1. Guest cellist Gautier Capuçon plays Camille Saint-Säens’ Concerto for Cello No. 1 alongside the Vienna Philharmonic ...

Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta made her first appearance in Ireland at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in 2008. Her star turn was in Vivaldi, not just actual cello concertos, but also in a cello ...

"I remember the very moment," says Johannes Moser, recalling the first time he ever heard Dvorák's Cello Concerto. "My dad took me. I had just started playing the cello, I was nine years old. Onto the ...

There are at least three common denominators to the programs offered this weekend and next by the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra and the Allentown Symphony Orchestra. Both will feature cello ...

The Harrisburg Symphony concert taking place twice this weekend is about the most exciting ever in the long time I've been a fan of the orchestra, and that's really saying something. I began attending ...