In the hush that follows the first, tentative notes of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, one senses a world ...

A performance full of finely realised detail and lacking in bombast ensures these two great and contrasting British cello concertos shine Two great British cello concertos, one extremely well known, ...

Finn Mannion (Cello) has been named winner of BBC Radio Scotland Young Classical Musician 2026. The Grand Final brought three ...

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 ...

Part of How To Classical. Why does the oboe tune the orchestra? Why does the orchestra sit the way it does? What does rosin actually do to a violin bow? If you find the traditions of the classical ...

Somebody once said that the way Elgar chooses to open his Cello Concerto, with those tortured chords sounding as if they have to be excavated from the cello face, is as if Shakespeare had started ...

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 ...

The adage goes that Vivaldi did not so much compose hundreds of concertos as write the same concerto hundreds of times. However, this disc featuring the estimable cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras ...

Ever since those unforgettable umbrellas of Cherbourg the sun has been shining on Michel Legrand. Here he is showing how the classical concerto can be reinvigorated with infusions from popular songs, ...

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 ...