Maisky and his peers were. Out of a rising beehive hum of strings came the famous opening notes of Australian supergroup AC/DC’s iconic rock anthem Thunderstruck, blooming into a wild, supercharged ...

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Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (27 March 1927 – 27 April 2007) was a Russian cellist and conductor. He is considered by many to be the greatest cellist of the 20th century. In addition to his ...

This is one of the most important recordings of the 20th century both for its content considered by many the greatest cello music of all time and for the intense devotion careful preparation and ...

How does one fall out of love with a piece of music? Not just any music but a classical work variously described as a “Baroque masterpiece”, “mesmerising” and “closest to the absolute and perfection”?

Even today, 50 years after his death in October 1973 at age 96, Pablo Casals remains the world’s most celebrated cellist—the man and his instrument inextricably linked in the minds of music lovers the ...

YEREVAN/LOS ANGELES — Cellist Sergey Kosemyan, a native of Yerevan, was born into the family of Honored Artist of Armenia, famous violist, member of the Komitas State String Quartet Alexander Kosemyan ...

This musician realised that with the right bow, the Bach Cello Suite No.1 could come to life in a wonderful way on the double bass... Since Bach composed his Cello Suites in the early 1700s, they have ...

Local music lovers are now enjoying a period of unprecedented great cello concerts. A few weeks ago famed cellist Alisa Weilerstein gave a stunning recital at Wharton Center, playing three Bach ...

It's difficult to imagine the suffering that the people of Ukraine have been going through at the hands of the invading Russian Army for the last month. How does someone live with the distinct ...

Irish import Rostropovich is no stranger to travelling, having first arrived on Australian shores more than three years ago from the United Kingdom, but after several years calling Melbourne home, the ...

Critics normally refrain from pronouncing anyone to be The World`s Greatest this or that, superlatives being meaningless and thus anathema to reasoned criticism. Even so, among professionals there is ...