These concertos of baroque composer Josef Antonín Guretzky (1709-1769) are a joy! Picking a composer out of Moravian obscurity, the “Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen” have put down world ...

Delius's three concertos for stringed instruments were all composed when the composer was in his 50s. The Double Concerto for violin and cello came first in 1916; the Violin Concerto followed ...

It was a concerto, her 2001 work for violin, that won Unsuk Chin the high-profile Grawemeyer award for music three years later. The three works here – the Piano Concerto composed in 1997, the other ...

While inhabiting diverse worlds of sound, these three cello concertos share a common thread in the refined, comprehensive artistry of Jean-Guihen Queyras. The Canadian-born Frenchman has come to the ...

Cellist Hee-Young Lim's newest from Sony Classical and the London Symphony Orchestra adds to her growing list of impressive collaborations. Praised by the Washington Post as “a deeply gifted musician, ...

This witty concerto, composed in the early 1760s but lost until its rediscovery in 1961, is notoriously difficult for cellists. It displays the whole range of the instrument, from low rumbling chords ...

The adage goes that Vivaldi did not so much compose hundreds of concertos as write the same concerto hundreds of times. However, this disc featuring the estimable cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras ...

This is Vivaldi in his shred-fest mode, played by the terrific French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras. It's a movement of one of the two dozen or so cello concertos he wrote for the young residents of the ...

The Cello Concerto was the last important work that Elgar wrote. Its first performance, in October 1919, with the composer himself conducting, opened the first post-war season of the London Symphony ...

As it begins its 14th season, the New Century Chamber Orchestra sounds stronger and more vibrant than ever. Thursday's season opener in Berkeley's St. John's Presbyterian Church was a small miracle of ...

Jean-Guihen Queyras here tackles eight of the 27 Vivaldi concertos written for the cello, along with two brief Sinfonias by his contemporary Antonio Caldara, weak consommés at the side of the Venetian ...