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Violinist Podger makes Bach’s suites sound as if they were written for her instrument, such is her buoyancy and agility Isn’t Rachel Podger a violinist? What’s she doing recording Bach’s Cello Suites?
CAMBRIDGE — Bach’s Six Cello Suites are the beating, deep-souled heart of the cello repertoire. Cellists do not just perform the Suites and move on. They study them, internalize them, and map their ...
Composer Johannes Kreidler has made an unusual protest against the merger of German broadcaster SWR's merging of two radio orchestras by smashing a cello and violin on stage at a concert last week.
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 ...
The programme focuses on late- Romantic and early 20th-century French chamber music, but with a few nuggets of newness – ...
One little trick and BAM, you’ve got yourself a brand-new string instrument. Violinist Esther Abrami has come up with a brilliant trick to make a violin sound like a cello: and literally all you have ...
Three Koreans have won first prizes in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in the categories of violin, cello and voice, its website showed Friday. Kim Gye-hee and Lee Young-eun clinched the ...