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 ...

which Dmitry S(c)hostakovich used to sign his name in much of his music. Hold on to your hats for three movements packed full of brilliance and intensity from one of the 20th century’s great composers ...

a movie conductor, shows admirable restraint. A good Schumann concerto was overdue. Enjoy unlimited access to The Atlantic.

D.C., and in May he plays the Haydn Cello Concerto in C Major with the Plymouth Symphony Orchestra in Massachusetts. At age 25 and still a student, his career has already begun. Miroshnikov won ...

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 ...

There's a blunt directness to the prose of Ernest Hemingway, a rhythmic punch that comes from the accumulated stacks of simple, declarative sentences and artful use of repetition. But there is ...

C. Colles in 1919. "What has he to say now, and have the years stamped their meaning on him in any profound way?" The Cello Concerto is full of this elegiac, autumnal atmosphere, aware of the ...

The program also included the world premiere of a sweet-toned, though somewhat long-winded cello concerto by Chinese ... Mozart's D-Major Divertimento, K. 136, opened the evening in a rendition ...