"I remember we started recording from 10:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. with only a one-hour break, lunch break. So I cannot imagine in retrospect ... looking back, I can't imagine how I did it. But, you ...

Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han perform in the Dallas Chamber Music Society series at Southern Methodist University's Caruth Auditorium on March 10, 2025. Scott Cantrell Russia, Russia, ...

Anner Bylsma is a tremendous enthusiast, whose high spirits and nervous energy never fail to manifest themselves in his performances. Here he plays these five Boccherini sonatas with a quite ...

Emanuel Gruber, a cello and chamber music professor in East Carolina University’s School of Music, has released a new recording of Johannes Brahms’ cello sonatas with pianist Arnon Erez. Gruber said ...

Written for his friend and 'best man', Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata turned out to be his last chamber work. Around the turn of the 20th Century, Sergei Rachmaninov was still going through the serious ...

One of the musicians I miss most in this current deep freeze is the Russian pianist Arcadi Volodos. He always loved eluding the press – when I was commissioned to interview him in Madrid, he almost ...

To launch our Fifteenth Anniversary Season, founding Artistic Directors Dmitri Atapine and Hyeyeon Park will present a marathon performance of Beethoven’s complete sonatas for cello and piano. These ...

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 ...

Each day this week pianist Schiff talks with Fred Child about the Beethoven cello sonatas he played with cellist Miklos Perenyi last summer at the Schwetzingen Festival, in Germany. From that concert, ...

Beethoven was a tiny, unimpressive-looking man, with a pock-marked face, messy hair and questionable hygiene. And yet his personality has dominated the imaginations of music-lovers for the past 200 ...