Cellist Watkins’ career-long immersion in the composer pays dividends in his pairing with Alessio Bax’s unfussy virtuosity ...

Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han perform in the Dallas Chamber Music Society series at Southern Methodist University's Caruth Auditorium on March 10, 2025. Scott Cantrell Russia, Russia, ...

Emanuel Gruber, a cello and chamber music professor in East Carolina University’s School of Music, has released a new recording of Johannes Brahms’ cello sonatas with pianist Arnon Erez. Gruber said ...

One of the musicians I miss most in this current deep freeze is the Russian pianist Arcadi Volodos. He always loved eluding the press – when I was commissioned to interview him in Madrid, he almost ...

Benjamin Britten first met Mstislav Rostropovich in 1960, when the Russian cellist came to London for the UK premiere of the concerto that Shostakovich had written for him. Rostropovich immediately ...

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Christian Poltéra, Cello Malmö Symphony Orchestra Arthur Honegger, Composer Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen, Conductor Sonata for Cello and Piano Christian Poltéra, Cello ...

(6) Sonatas for Cello and Continuo, Movements: A Enrico Bronzi, Cello Francesco (Xaverio) Geminiani, Composer Michele Barchi, Harpsichord (6) Sonatas for Cello and Continuo, Movements: D minor Michele ...

The Watkins brothers' third volume of British cello sonatas focuses on works written between 1945 and 1948. Edmund Rubbra's sole cello sonata opens in a sombre, stately, flowing manner. The style has ...

The cello sonata as we know it today was effectively created by Beethoven in the two virtuosic Sonatas, Op 5, he wrote in 1796 for the King of Prussia. The composer added three more, the largest and ...

Last year marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, but planned celebratory concerts in Singapore had to be cancelled or deferred because of the Covid-19 ...

'Cello Sonata in C' was written in 1949 after Prokofiev was inspired by a performance by renowned cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. Prokofiev had been effectively banned by the Soviet regime as a ...

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