Demonstrating the many facets of the cello - from growling low chords to tripping semiquaver scales in the instrument's sweet high register - Haydn redefined orchestral playing with his fantastic ...
Joseph Haydn penned his Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major between 1761 and 1765, but it would be 200 years before anyone heard it. That’s because the piece somehow got placed in the Prague National ...
Think Haydn’s concertos are all refined classical affairs? Check out the power and guts of this thrilling performance, which won a young soloist a major prize. This was one of those occasions when a ...
The program the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is performing this weekend opens, deceptively, with a blast of quintessential feel-good music: Three Romances for orchestra by Clara Schumann. This is lush ...
Our cellist is Jian Wang in the Cello Concerto in C, by Haydn. Wang performs with the International Sejong Soloists at the brand new music fesitval the group founded in Korea last summer, the Great ...
Journey from the 18th to the 21st century on a musical voyage filled with energy and charm. Stravinsky’s Pulcinella is one of the first great masterpieces of the Neo-Classical era and oozes with style ...