Music of profound sorrow and exceptional beauty: Elgar’s Cello Concerto is a phoenix rising from the ashes of a world at war, an elegiac lament for an England lost forever. Much of Edward Elgar’s ...

All summer we’re in residence at the Royal Albert Hall for highlights from the BBC Proms. Today, cellist Gautie ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule 1 Adagio – Moderato The Cello Concerto was the last important work that ...

Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto starts with the cello alone, playing rich, soulful chords. British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason gives a passionate performance of this pillar in the cello repertoire today ...

What if one instrument could make you feel everything – joy, grief, longing, and hope, all at once? That’s the cello. Its voice sits closer to the human range than any other classical instrument, warm ...

The 1945 Cello Concerto is probably the least performed of Samuel Barber's concertos – less winsomely melodic than the work for violin, less flamboyantly virtuosic than the Piano Concerto. But as ...

Kanneh-Mason has recorded Elgar’s monumental work at just 20 – the same age Jacqueline du Pré was when she set down her iconic take on the concerto. At just 20, the ‘Royal wedding’ cellist has ...

21-year-old Philipp Schupelius plays the virtuosic finale of Haydn’s Cello Concerto No.1 in C major at Classic FM’s Rising Stars with Julian Lloyd Webber, filmed at LSO St Luke’s. Filmed at LSO St ...

Teenage cellist and composer Anoushka Sharp's cello concerto gets its world premiere on 18 May. She tells us how she had the ambition to compose the work, and why it's dedicated to Steven Isserlis On ...

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 ...

We all know ‘classical music’ – music that’s distinct from pop, rock or jazz. But what of the Classical era? From Mozart to Beethoven, we explore the greatest composers active in the second half of ...