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 ...

Years ago I bought an lp of the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich on which he performed Benjamin Britten’s Cello Suites 1 & 2. It was truly stunning, both the composition and performance. A ...

Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han gave the Baker-Baum Concert Hall a satisfying workout Friday evening for the La Jolla Music Society. Their well-curated program was a chronological survey of ...

As they make clear in the sleeve notes, Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley designed the programme on this disc as a tribute to Mstislav Rostropovich and Benjamin Britten, who made extraordinary ...

Sonata for Cello and Piano Daniel Grimwood, Piano Jamie Walton, Cello Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Sonata for Cello and Piano Jamie Walton, Cello Daniel Grimwood, Piano Benjamin Britten, Composer ...

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 2 Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello Sinfonia of London John Wilson, Conductor Sonata for Cello and Piano Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello Isata Kanneh-Mason, Piano Sonata for ...

This is a brilliant anthology, wonderfully performed and beautifully recorded. Britten’s cello music was written for Mstislav Rostropovich, whom the composer had met in 1960 at the UK premiere of ...

Suggested donation $10 to $20. Pianist Joonghun Cho (BM Eastman School of Music, MM & DMA University of Michigan, and Artistic Director of the Gibson Centre Classical Concert Series) & cellist Peter ...

A WEB of musical connections among several generations of teachers, pupils and friends inspired this disc of works by three British composers, vividly interpreted by two other Britons, the cellist Guy ...

Britten’s suites for solo cello are not perhaps an easy listen any more than they are easy to play, but Jamie Walton’s absorbing performances of all three seem to expose and explore the emotional ...