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Joel Krosnick, cello, Gilbert Kalish, piano (Arabesque, 2 discs). Mstislav Rostropovich, cello, Sviatoslov Richter, piano (Maurice Gendron, cello, Jean Francaix ...

Last year marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, but planned celebratory concerts in Singapore had to be cancelled or deferred because of the Covid-19 ...

The cello sonata as we know it today was effectively created by Beethoven in the two virtuosic Sonatas, Op 5, he wrote in 1796 for the King of Prussia. The composer added three more, the largest and ...

For a composer like Beethoven, who storms the heavens and plumbs the spirit, calling a performance elegant isn't necessarily a compliment. But if there's one group of his works where elegance ...

An important position in the world of chamber music is being filled by the husband and wife team of cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han. The pair take over the post of Artistic Director of the ...

Back in 2004, the British cellist Steven Isserlis teamed up with the Boston-based fortepianist Robert Levin for what was, by all accounts, a memorable two-program traversal of the complete Beethoven ...

One of the banes of being a viola-player, aside from all those jokes that are lobbed at the profession, is that the solo repertoire for the instrument is so limited. Maxim Rysanov is among the new ...

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has a tough job living up to expectations. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called him the "world's greatest living cellist." Annan has appointed Ma to the post of "UN peace ...