Short-bearded, blue-jeaned Rajan Krishnaswami is seated on the stage in the empty hall embracing his cello like a lover. Fingers flash along the finger board; his arm draws the bow incisively over the ...

Jorge was born in Brazil, learnt to play the cello in his small town and later on in an Israeli conservatorium. He played the cello in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for many years and also taught ...

The cello has remained a staple in music for hundreds of years and to this day, remains an important part of contemporary music too. Like other stringed instruments, the best cellos are those that are ...

No. 1, op. 45, Bi major (20 min., 44 sec.)--No. 2, op. 58, D major (23 min., 40 sec.) Track information 101 Mendelssohn, Felix: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in B ...

Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet. Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...

Amedeo Baldovino could have panicked. The ship that the cellist was on had caught fire between Uruguay and Argentina, causing him and the other two members of the Trieste Piano Trio to jump into the ...