Tag Archives: cello

Smith's warm and nimble rendition set the tone: yearning in the slow sections, fiery in the faster ones, and always restrained enough to let Beethoven's notes speak for themselves.

It's as if the violin can't stop swatting at mosquitos while the cello sings a sad, halting, unmoored kind of song.

At his recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Crosett showed ability and fire to spare, with plenty of charisma and good humor to boot.

An assimilated Jewish composer bonds with his peasant-class Polish housekeeper in wartime Warsaw – but will it mean escape, or existential collapse?

The music on 'Toward Light' speaks to listeners who appreciate something bracing and new from a format – string quintet – that dates back centuries.

This truly original event at the Green-Wood Cemetery catacombs took in the definitions of concert, dance, and theater.

When is an improvisation more than an improvisation? When a spontaneous collaboration gels into something that's more the sum of its parts.

Conductor Elim Chan applied her ardent energy to a strong New York Philharmonic program featuring cellist Sol Gabetta and 'Scheherazade.'

This collection of music by six contemporary female composers from Iran is an eloquent document of the driving creative spirit these composers in a time of reckoning and exile.

Two composers who were famously not ahead of their time get their due in a chamber concert by two outstanding young musicians.