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 ...

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German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser – hailed by Gramophone as “one of the finest among the astonishing gallery of young virtuoso cellists” – returns to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The full schedule for the San Francisco Symphony's 2005-06 season follows. All events are in Davies Symphony Hall except where indicated; (m) denotes matinee. SEPT. 8, 10 (Flint Center, Cupertino) - ...

Prom 68 ‘Cameron Carpenter’s mad mash of Bach, Mahler and improv – the Andre Agassi of the organ’ @ProfNikiEllis on Twitter ...