Completed in 1919, the Cello Concerto was Edward Elgar's last major work for orchestra, and his most confessional. In spite of fleeting moments of idyllic release, it's dominated by disillusionment, ...

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Interlochen Center for the Arts and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra are collaborating on a performance for America's 250th ...

Truls Mørk plays Shostakovich's first cello concerto with the German Symphony Orchestra.

Anna Clyne’s impressive new work is a cello concerto inspired by Persian poetry and outshining the familiar Elgar work in Inbal Segev’s performance Dance is Anna Clyne’s hugely impressive new cello ...

Thorvaldsdottir’s new cello concerto, “Before We Fall,” is a bange, sonically and intellectually, dense with ideas and meriting repeat hearings. It launches explosively, which is not an unusual ...

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 ...

From the dramatic intensity of Cello Concerto in B minor by Antonín Dvořák to the elegance of Cello Concerto No. 1 by Camille Saint-Saëns, these concertos define the instrument’s greatest moments.

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 ...

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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 ...