Antonin Dvorak composed “Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B Minor” in 1894. But the cello on which this piece will be played on Saturday and Sunday, April 9–10, in Grand Junction is older than that ...
Cellist Zuill Bailey says he's getting ready to take on two of the biggest and greatest works in the classical repertoire over the next several days in Little Rock. Bailey joins the Arkansas Symphony ...
may not know it, but he has a teenage fan club. After the orchestra’s Bartók/Dvorák/Mozart concert last Saturday, a group of nattily dressed youngsters — high-school-age, to my eye — chattered outside ...
To launch the 2023 season of the Spokane Symphony, Music Director James Lowe led the orchestra in the opening concert of his dreams. It featured the world’s most famous classical musician, cellist ...
The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera continues its new Unspoken: Our Stories Through Sound arc with "a deeply evocative program rooted in remembrance, resurrection and the redemptive power of music" on ...
Dvorak was excited to come to America when the invitation first came, but after three years — and many ups and downs — he was tired of the city, of the hectic schedule, and of not being able to write ...
Which is the greatest cello concerto? Dvorak's often gets the vote. Written toward the end of the composer's sojourn in America, a year after the New York premiere of his "New World" Symphony, it ...
"I remember the very moment," says Johannes Moser, recalling the first time he ever heard Dvorák's Cello Concerto. "My dad took me. I had just started playing the cello, I was nine years old. Onto the ...
First on the Somm label and for several years now on Signum, Jamie Walton has been producing indispensable discs ranging through the familiar and not so familiar cello repertoire. He has explored with ...
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 ...
Isserlis, who has resisted for 40 years recording this much-loved piece from the heart of the cellist’s repertoire, breaks his duck, and even adds an earlier Dvorak concerto, orchestrated by Gunter ...
Just as great orators lend words the power to inspire, the best instrumental soloists turn music into persuasive arguments. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, in his appearance with the Hong Kong Philharmonic on ...