This is Vivaldi in his shred-fest mode, played by the terrific French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras. It's a movement of one of the two dozen or so cello concertos he wrote for the young residents of the ...

We're not sure how we picked favorites, either. Few names in music hold as much weight as Yo-Yo Ma: cellist, international superstar, humanitarian and beloved human. With a performance career of 60 ...

Jean-Guihen Queyras here tackles eight of the 27 Vivaldi concertos written for the cello, along with two brief Sinfonias by his contemporary Antonio Caldara, weak consommés at the side of the Venetian ...

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 ...

This witty concerto, composed in the early 1760s but lost until its rediscovery in 1961, is notoriously difficult for cellists. It displays the whole range of the instrument, from low rumbling chords ...

Think Haydn’s concertos are all refined classical affairs? Check out the power and guts of this thrilling performance, which won a young soloist a major prize. This was one of those occasions when a ...

Cellist Umberto Clerici brought a touch of magic to the APO and Elgar's Cello Concerto. Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's main Town Hall series continues to amaze (and draw very good houses). Here was ...

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 ...