Demonstrating the many facets of the cello - from growling low chords to tripping semiquaver scales in the instrument's sweet high register - Haydn redefined orchestral playing with his fantastic ...

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, ...

Adam Satinsky isn't about to hand you his cello. It's only three months old, its spruce and maple freshly gleaming under the varnish from Colorado cellomaker Christopher Dungey. Satinsky would like to ...

Sonya Moomaw, 2nd Place Junior Laureate at the Sphinx Competition 2025, performs Cello Concerto in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1 I. Moderato by Franz Joseph Haydn.

Those drawn-out opening chords are some of the most memorable in all music. Stern, sensitive and dramatic, they connect this 20th century masterpiece with another monolith of the repertoire, Bach's ...

In Esa-Pekka Salonen’s radiant and surprisingly hopeful new Cello Concerto, Yo-Yo Ma is asked to be a combination wave-maker and cloud seeder. What with our winter of drought, those are not unwelcome ...