The 1945 Cello Concerto is probably the least performed of Samuel Barber's concertos – less winsomely melodic than the work for violin, less flamboyantly virtuosic than the Piano Concerto. But as ...

Internationally acclaimed cellist Li-Wei Qin joins the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in June for an unforgettable concert ...

Part of How To Classical. Why does the oboe tune the orchestra? Why does the orchestra sit the way it does? What does rosin actually do to a violin bow? If you find the traditions of the classical ...

Elgar's Cello Concerto has been juxtaposed with a number of works on disc, but not before with Barber's concerto, which was composed 26 years later, in 1945. The combination works well, for the ...

Beethoven's love for opera was lifelong, yet he wrote only one opera. The opera that began as "Leonore" and ultimately came to be called "Fidelio" came slowly and late and at the cost of immense pain.

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra Samuel Barber, Composer Jan Vogler, Cello Thomas Sanderling, Conductor Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, 'Deception' Saarbrücken ...

Barber’s own recording of the Cello Concerto, with Zara Nelsova, is also on the eight-CD set but it can be had on its own (Naxos, 4/11). There are not as many recordings as there are of the Violin ...