From Kloetzel and Koenig to Weilerstein and Barnatan, a flurry of new Beethoven double acts each offer something new. And Palaver Strings revel in the work of women through the ages Beethoven’s music ...

Emanuel Gruber, a cello and chamber music professor in East Carolina University’s School of Music, has released a new recording of Johannes Brahms’ cello sonatas with pianist Arnon Erez. Gruber said ...

One of the musicians I miss most in this current deep freeze is the Russian pianist Arcadi Volodos. He always loved eluding the press – when I was commissioned to interview him in Madrid, he almost ...

Ludwig van Beethoven is beloved around the world for both the grandeur of his musical vision and the intimacy of his emotional journey. His music speaks straight to the heart and makes a direct ...

One of only nine works that Chopin wrote not for solo piano. The Cello Sonata was the last work to be published in his lifetime and is remarkable for the concentration of its material. Much of the ...

Anner Bylsma is a tremendous enthusiast, whose high spirits and nervous energy never fail to manifest themselves in his performances. Here he plays these five Boccherini sonatas with a quite ...

The Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey, invariably an inspired artist, here couples two of the greatest cello sonatas from the early Romantic period, both written in the 1840s. Much the stronger and more ...

'Cello Sonata in C' was written in 1949 after Prokofiev was inspired by a performance by renowned cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. Prokofiev had been effectively banned by the Soviet regime as a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Yo-Yo Ma’s Beethoven and a young star soprano’s Sibelius are among the highlights of recent recordings. Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin; William ...

When the pandemic hit last year, cellist Matt Haimovitz admits that at first he felt paralyzed after being on the road touring and performing for more than three decades. He started wondering: What's ...

From its origins as a coarse dance instrument to a symbol of courage and defiance, the cello has inspired so many of the west’s greatest composers and performers ‘Why write for a violin when there is ...