Praised for his rich, gorgeous tone and playing that can range from lovely and elegant to a vigorous rock star energy, German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser returns to the NAC Orchestra after his ...

Philharmonic Orchestra under their new artistic director Vasily Petrenko, perform Shostakovich’s Cello Concertos No. 1 and No. 2 with cellist Truls Mork. Technically assured and graceful performances ...

Shostakovich wrote his First Cello Concerto for the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. He loved it so much, he learnt the whole piece off-by-heart in four days. Timecodes refer to the ...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has released details of its 12-concert festival, May 27 to June 12 at Symphony Center, celebrating the music of Russia’s most important composer of the 20th Century, ...

There aren’t many soloists left on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s contact list who can draw a sold-out crowd to Symphony Hall for one concert, much less four, but if anyone could still do it in this ...

Two weeks before Halloween, the Redlands Symphony Orchestra opened its 2015-16 season with a treat of a concert. The Saturday evening concert in the University of Redlands Memorial Chapel treated the ...

German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser – hailed by Gramophone as “one of the finest among the astonishing gallery of young virtuoso cellists” – returns to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in ...

For me, the two piano concertos are not the most important music by Shostakovich. Those would probably be some of the quartets and Symphony No 14 – and even they are less important than the Second ...