Demonstrating the many facets of the cello - from growling low chords to tripping semiquaver scales in the instrument's sweet high register - Haydn redefined orchestral playing with his fantastic ...

The program the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is performing this weekend opens, deceptively, with a blast of quintessential feel-good music: Three Romances for orchestra by Clara Schumann. This is lush ...

Joseph Haydn penned his Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major between 1761 and 1765, but it would be 200 years before anyone heard it. That’s because the piece somehow got placed in the Prague National ...

The Houston Symphony continues its celebration of Sibelius’ 150th birthday with his tone poem, The Bard, and his soaring Symphony No. 1. Acclaimed Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta performs not one, but ...

Yo-Yo Ma: three short syllables that guarantee a performance to remember. The great cellist and multifaceted musician has been performing in Seattle for about four decades (though never often enough), ...

This story concerns a distinguished, Salzburg orchestra founded in the name of Mozart; a Haydn concerto discovered two centuries after its composition; and the long-awaited debut of an original work ...

Mozart wrote many concertos, Haydn a mere handful. The reasons are fairly obvious - Haydn was not a virtuoso himself, and his secure gig with the Eszterhazy family meant that he didn't have to compete ...

The Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) returned to the Cultural Center of the Philippines Main Theater last June 4 and produced a real grand—and rousing—season opening. The Haydn D Major Cello Concerto ...