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, ...

Steven Isserlis, cello; other soloists; Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Roger Norrington, conductor (RCA Victor). Schumann: Cello Concerto Isserlis, cello; Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Christoph ...

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 ...

The 1945 Cello Concerto is probably the least performed of Samuel Barber's concertos – less winsomely melodic than the work for violin, less flamboyantly virtuosic than the Piano Concerto. But as ...

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French cellist Gastinel has, for most of the last decade, been steadily amassing a discography that could well serve as a primer on the most essential compositions for her instrument. To that catalog, ...

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 ...

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Christian Poltéra, Cello Malmö Symphony Orchestra Arthur Honegger, Composer Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen, Conductor Sonata for Cello and Piano Christian Poltéra, Cello ...

The Cello Concerto was the last important work that Elgar wrote. Its first performance, in October 1919, with the composer himself conducting, opened the first post-war season of the London Symphony ...