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Stephanie March is nothing if not a good sport. The Weekender found that out, first hand, after we asked the Sioux City-born cellist to perform live in our studios during a video-slash-photo shoot.
Usually when you attend an orchestral program featuring the cello, you hear one concerto. This time, you get to hear three. Joshua Roman, the Seattle Symphony’s principal cellist and one of the most ...
Those drawn-out opening chords are some of the most memorable in all music. Stern, sensitive and dramatic, they connect this 20th century masterpiece with another monolith of the repertoire, Bach's ...
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 ...
"I remember the very moment," says Johannes Moser, recalling the first time he ever heard Dvorák's Cello Concerto. "My dad took me. I had just started playing the cello, I was nine years old. Onto the ...
In the wonderfully evocative central movement of his new cello concerto “Tangle Eye,” composer Dan Visconti has the soloist fluttering lightly across the fingerboard, creating a light, shimmery web of ...
Acclaimed British cellist Paul Watkins performs with the Colorado Symphony this weekend as the featured soloist on Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto. Watkins, who became principal cellist of the BBC ...
Arguably the most instantly recognisable and dramatic pieces of music ever written for the instrument, Elgar’s Cello Concerto is one of the greatest pieces of music written in the early 20th century.
A new disc of music by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich including the debut recording of her Cello Concerto (2020), performed by soloist Zuill Bailey and the Santa Rosa Symphony led by its music director, ...
Adam Satinsky isn't about to hand you his cello. It's only three months old, its spruce and maple freshly gleaming under the varnish from Colorado cellomaker Christopher Dungey. Satinsky would like to ...