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 ...

"The most tragic work I know," is how cellist Leonard Elschenbroich describes Shostakovich's Viola Sonata, his harrowing last composition, completed in 1975. The piece was originally planned, however, ...

The cello’s mellow timbre is so well-suited to Rachmaninov’s musical idiom that it is surprising – and certainly a shame – that he composed so little for it as a solo instrument. A few early pieces ...

Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han teach chamber music at the Aspen Music Festival and School and perform frequently at the festival. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s admirers cherish his Sonata for Cello ...

Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan are well paired in this disc of sonatas by composers better known for piano music, both writing for cellists who were their close friends. Rachmaninov’s mammoth ...

Two expressive but seldom-heard compositions – one by Portland composer Elliott Cherry and the other Rachmaninoff’s ultra-romantic Sonata in G Minor – headline a Bates College concert by cellist ...

Sonata for Cello and Piano Dóra Kokas, Cello Marianna Shirinyan, Piano Sonata for Cello and Piano Dóra Kokas, Cello Marianna Shirinyan, Piano According to cellist Dóra Kokas, ‘Hypnosis’ (this ...

Trio élégiaque Tatiana Samouil, Violin Pavel Gomziakov, Cello Andrey Korobeinikov, Piano Trio élégiaque Tatiana Samouil, Violin Pavel Gomziakov, Cello Andrey Korobeinikov, Piano (2) Morceaux de Salon ...

Join us for a captivating evening of world-class chamber music, set against the breathtaking candlelit backdrop of St Mary le Strand—a hidden Baroque treasure in the heart of London, an intimate and ...

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 ...