Halffter: Concerto No. 2 for Cello and Orchestra; Parafrasis (Rostropovich, cello; Orchestre National de France, Cristobal Halffter, cond.; Erato, 57:09). Both the Penderecki (1982) and Halffter (1985 ...

Camille Saint-Saëns wrote two of the most popular pieces in the cello repertoire: his First Concerto in 1872 and The Swan in 1886. This luscious and lyrical account of the concerto, with rich ...

Well before his operettas "Babes in Toyland" and "Naughty Marietta" made him famous, Victor Herbert had a thriving career as a cellist, conductor and orchestral composer, and his Cello Concerto No. 2 ...

With two superior new recordings of the Dvorak Cello Concerto appearing more or less simultaneously, both by talented young cellists, making a clear-cut choice is difficult. German cellist Jan Vogler ...

The Mantovani-style fanned chords at the start of Arthur H Lilienthal’s all-strings rewrite of the Cello Concerto does not augur well, though Raphael Wallfisch rises from his freshly retextured ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Half a century has passed since the memorable performances of Dvořák's Cello Concerto by the late Jacqueline du ...

One hundred years ago this summer, Edward Elgar completed a concerto that became one of the linchpins of classical cello repertoire. The piece was thrust into popular consciousness more than four ...

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 ...

The great cellist Pablo Casals gave the second-best description of the cello. "The cello," he said, "is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older but younger with time, more slender, more supple, ...

I know only part of his story. I know him playing the cello on a dairy crate in the morning sun, suspended somewhere between boy genius and lost traveler. But where does he go after dark? For answers, ...