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 ...

Praised for his rich, gorgeous tone and playing that can range from lovely and elegant to a vigorous rock star energy, German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser returns to the NAC Orchestra after his ...

Two weeks before Halloween, the Redlands Symphony Orchestra opened its 2015-16 season with a treat of a concert. The Saturday evening concert in the University of Redlands Memorial Chapel treated the ...

As with Bach’s St Matthew Passion, this disc presents an unfamiliar early version of a known masterpiece. Prokofiev wrote his Cello Concerto in the 1930s, but it failed to win favour (“grunting and ...

It was only a matter of time before Jamie Walton recorded the Cello Concerto by his namesake, Sir William. To do so earlier might have smacked of opportunism, but he is already known as a musician of ...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has released details of its 12-concert festival, May 27 to June 12 at Symphony Center, celebrating the music of Russia’s most important composer of the 20th Century, ...

FOR ALL the bad weather, there was a full house Wednesday night at Davies Symphony Hall. Credit the power of Yo-Yo Ma, who arrived on stage with the beaming, “aw shucks” goodness that is his trademark ...

There aren’t many soloists left on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s contact list who can draw a sold-out crowd to Symphony Hall for one concert, much less four, but if anyone could still do it in this ...

The BBC Phil's chief conductor led a relentless account of Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, paired with Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.

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