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 ...

It was a concerto, her 2001 work for violin, that won Unsuk Chin the high-profile Grawemeyer award for music three years later. The three works here – the Piano Concerto composed in 1997, the other ...

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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 Strings Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca Walter Vestidello, Cello Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Concerto for Cello and Strings Walter Vestidello, Cello Antonio Vivaldi, Composer ...

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 ...