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 ...

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 ...

Joshua Kosman has covered classical music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1988, reviewing and reporting on the wealth of orchestral, operatic, chamber and contemporary music throughout the Bay ...

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 ...

A collection of some of Yo-Yo Ma's greatest recordings, brought together for the very first time. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 12 August 2013. During his outstanding career, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma ...

According to Shostakovich, he and Mieczysław Weinberg competed to see who could write the most string quartets; Weinberg, who outlived his mentor by two decades, won by two. On this disc, the two ...

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 ...

The second volume of Hyperion's series devoted to romantic cello concertos groups three rarely performed works around the reference point of Schumann's 1850 A minor concerto. The unified, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Warm, rich and lyrical, the cello is the instrument whose sound we often think of as closest to the ...