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

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 ...

The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra's wide-ranging 2026-27 season opens with a Cliburn winner, closes with video game music, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Half a century has passed since the memorable performances of Dvořák's Cello Concerto by the late Jacqueline du ...

Born in Dublin and raised in Stuttgart, Victor Herbert flourished in New York, playing cello professionally, composing the operettas for which he is just about remembered today, and teaching at the ...

"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 ...

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 ...