The world of classical music can be inaccessible. Instruments are difficult to learn, lessons are expensive, and it is arguably less immediate than pop or rock. But cellist, composer and singer Abel ...
They’re one of the greatest glories of classical music but the Cello Suites took many decades to be appreciated and understood. Steven Isserlis tells the story of ‘one of the pillars of western ...
When the pandemic hit last year, cellist Matt Haimovitz admits that at first he felt paralyzed after being on the road touring and performing for more than three decades. He started wondering: What's ...
Music of profound sorrow and exceptional beauty: Elgar’s Cello Concerto is a phoenix rising from the ashes of a world at war, an elegiac lament for an England lost forever. Much of Edward Elgar’s ...
Here are 7 pieces of classical music to fire the senses.... Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie. I knew the first time I listened ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Works by Philip Glass and Bohuslav Martinu, as well as performances by Daniil Trifonov and Jonas Kaufmann, are among the highlights. Munich ...
Heitor Villa-Lobos is seen as a one-hit wonder – but virtuoso cellist Antonio Meneses's new CD shows the variety in his work Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...