Written for his friend and 'best man', Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata turned out to be his last chamber work. Around the turn of the 20th Century, Sergei Rachmaninov was still going through the serious ...

This programme, recorded live at London’s Wigmore Hall in January last year, brought together the remarkable artistry of the Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires and her regular cellist partner, the ...

Her work was largely forgotten until recently, Leokadya Kashperov (who happened to be Stravinsky's piano teacher) composed her Cello Concerto around 1896. Graceful, melodic and uplifting. Composer: ...

This is a disc of high contrasts. Rachmaninov's ardently romantic cello sonata is clearly the work of a piano-obsessed composer, one who couldn't stop himself writing a huge piano part that's ...

What are the best works written for cello? Step this way for the most striking, stirring and inspiring works ever written for this beautiful instrument. These six extraordinary works tower over the ...

In music theory, a coda is generally understood as an appendage or an epilogue to a musical structure. This is perhaps the reason that, as Joseph Kerman writes, '[m]usical analysts who deal with ...

1915 was a remarkable year for the cello. Pablo Casals made his first recordings of solo Bach, and Max Reger in Germany and Zoltán Kodály in Hungary were, quite independently, at work on solo cello ...

Last year marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, but planned celebratory concerts in Singapore had to be cancelled or deferred because of the Covid-19 ...