This is a disc of high contrasts. Rachmaninov's ardently romantic cello sonata is clearly the work of a piano-obsessed composer, one who couldn't stop himself writing a huge piano part that's ...

Last week was a good one for Shostakovich at the Aspen Music Festival, mostly because of the Emerson Quartet and members thereof. The chamber music side of the festival was more compelling than the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page The young British phenoms Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason are performing a duo recital of cello sonatas, including by Shostakovich and ...

Moving into the 20th century, Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata, a haunting and emotional work that reflects the composer’s own struggles and the political climate of his time. Demanding an intellectual ...

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Cellist Tsun-yuet Emmanuel Kwok and pianist Keji Sanchez will join forces in recital to perform two masterworks of the cello-piano repertoire: Brahms’s Sonata in E minor, Op. 38, with its sweeping ...

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 ...

The Russian cellist Anatoly Brandukov was a best man at Rachmaninov’s wedding in the spring of 1902. He was quite a bit older than the groom, but the two had been close friends for some years, and it ...