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 ...

As with Bach’s St Matthew Passion, this disc presents an unfamiliar early version of a known masterpiece. Prokofiev wrote his Cello Concerto in the 1930s, but it failed to win favour (“grunting and ...

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 ...

It was only a matter of time before Jamie Walton recorded the Cello Concerto by his namesake, Sir William. To do so earlier might have smacked of opportunism, but he is already known as a musician of ...

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 ...