1915 was a remarkable year for the cello. Pablo Casals made his first recordings of solo Bach, and Max Reger in Germany and Zoltán Kodály in Hungary were, quite independently, at work on solo cello ...

Of the Kodály, Miriam says, "I am moved with gratitude by the influence Kodály has on my repertoire; the solo sonata is exceptional and continues to speak to me." The 17-year-old cellist recorded the ...

Zoltán Kodály’s Sonata for Solo Cello represents one of those daunting summits that cellists feel ineluctably drawn to conquer, and Natalie Clein does so here with terrific passion, piquancy and ...

Kodaly’s sonata, written in 1915, tests the player and thrills the listener. It’s often mentioned in the same breath as J.S. Bach’s unaccompanied Cello Suites, which have fascinated cellists (and ...

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The lines were long outside Town Hall, and smart patrons had arrived at least an hour and a half early to stake out a place inside. An estimated 900 music lovers turned up and a few dozen were turned ...

What are the best works written for cello? Step this way for the most striking, stirring and inspiring works ever written for this beautiful instrument. These six extraordinary works tower over the ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

About to go under the surgeon's knife at the age of 93, the great pianist Arthur Rubinstein requested that he be played Mozart's String Quintet in G minor as he emerged from the anaesthetic. If he ...

Like a painter intimating a composition in a single brushstroke, the cellist Alisa Weilerstein needed no more than a few measures of music to reveal the full depth of the evening ahead, her Zankel ...