Like many television and film composers, the problem for Burgon (born in 1941) is that success in the commercial field has stopped him from being taken seriously in classical circles. This CD, ...

Robert DeMaine knows something about the “king of all cello concertos” since he possesses the Stradivarius made in 1684 that was used for the composition’s premier performance two centuries later.

Delius's three concertos for stringed instruments were all composed when the composer was in his 50s. The Double Concerto for violin and cello came first in 1916; the Violin Concerto followed ...

It was a concerto, her 2001 work for violin, that won Unsuk Chin the high-profile Grawemeyer award for music three years later. The three works here – the Piano Concerto composed in 1997, the other ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule 1 Adagio – Moderato The Cello Concerto was the last important work that ...

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 ...

The Cello Concerto was the last of the three scores Antonín Dvorák wrote during his three-year residency in the U.S., when he served as director of the National Conservatory in New York City from 1892 ...

A passionate interpretation of this evergreen concerto. Album of the Weekend, 26-27 April 2014. The brilliant American cellist Alisa Weilerstein follows her critically acclaimed Decca debut recording ...

Hans Pfitzner wrote three cello concertos, the first as a 19-year-old in 1888 (eight years before the première of Dvorak's great Concerto in B minor). The others were in 1935 and 1943, when Pfitzner ...

Ever since those unforgettable umbrellas of Cherbourg the sun has been shining on Michel Legrand. Here he is showing how the classical concerto can be reinvigorated with infusions from popular songs, ...

The Cello Concerto was the last important work that Elgar wrote. Its first performance, in October 1919, with the composer himself conducting, opened the first post-war season of the London Symphony ...