Like father, like son. C P E Bach, second surviving son of the great J S, also composed a wide range of concertos, some of which (like his father’s) exist in versions for different instruments. It is ...

This recording is a real tonic. I defy anyone not to smile at Steven Isserlis’s effervescent readings of Haydn’s graceful and urbane cello concertos in C major and in D major. He spins an exquisitely ...

C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos, Nicolas Altstaedt, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen, cond. Hyperion As our attention spans continue to shrink, there’s no better time to bond with the quicksilver music of Carl ...

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Jonathan Cohen, Conductor Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello Arcangelo Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Composer Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello Carl Philipp ...

As with Bach’s St Matthew Passion, this disc presents an unfamiliar early version of a known masterpiece. Prokofiev wrote his Cello Concerto in the 1930s, but it failed to win favour (“grunting and ...

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 ...

Heitor Villa-Lobos is seen as a one-hit wonder – but virtuoso cellist Antonio Meneses's new CD shows the variety in his work Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen Steven Isserlis, Director, Cello Joseph Haydn, Composer (La) finta giardiniera, Movements: Geme la tortorella Deutsche ...