Delius's three concertos for stringed instruments were all composed when the composer was in his 50s. The Double Concerto for violin and cello came first in 1916; the Violin Concerto followed ...

Robert DeMaine knows something about the “king of all cello concertos” since he possesses the Stradivarius made in 1684 that was used for the composition’s premier performance two centuries later.

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 ...

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 ...

Concerto for Cello and Strings Truls Mørk, Cello Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Composer (Les) Violons du Roy, Québec Bernard Labadie, Conductor Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Truls Mørk, Cello Carl ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule 1 Adagio – Moderato The Cello Concerto was the last important work that ...

The Cello Concerto was the last of the three scores Antonín Dvorák wrote during his three-year residency in the U.S., when he served as director of the National Conservatory in New York City from 1892 ...

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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 the piece turns 100, Ivan Hewett pays tribute to one of the great works of the 20th century This year marks the centenary of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a piece that is dear to the heart of so ...

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 ...