Celebrate the centenary of the premiere of Edward Elgar’s ‘Cello Concerto’ by exploring the story behind the legendary masterpiece. Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be, goes the old joke. And no one ...

Cellist Christian Poltéra and conductor Thomas Dausgaard give Dvoπák’s Cello Concerto a lusty warmth and spontaneity in Berlin’s Jesus-Christus Kirche. The acoustic is resonant but detailed, and the ...

Few works in all of music begin as ominously as Elgar's Cello Concerto. When the soloist's bow bites into those stark E minor chords, it's like a summons - and not to cocktails and a gossip. No, what ...

21-year-old Philipp Schupelius plays the virtuosic finale of Haydn’s Cello Concerto No.1 in C major at Classic FM’s Rising ...

Somebody once said that the way Elgar chooses to open his Cello Concerto, with those tortured chords sounding as if they have to be excavated from the cello face, is as if Shakespeare had started ...

Stanislas Kim performs Elgar's concerto with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra.

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 ...

A performance full of finely realised detail and lacking in bombast ensures these two great and contrasting British cello concertos shine Two great British cello concertos, one extremely well known, ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule 1 Adagio – Moderato The Cello Concerto was the last important work that ...

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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 ...

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 ...