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One of the many professional casualties of the lockdown was the pianist Jonathan Biss, whose Beethoven series at the Wigmore Hall skidded to a halt. But he’s very much around on CD: this record brings ...

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons, play Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave, the Rococco Variations - with Daniel Müller-Schott as cello soloist - and the Manfred Symphony.

Like what you heard or want to hear what you missed? Critic Larry Lapidus has compiled a list of essential recordings of the works performed by the Spokane Symphony this weekend: • Schumann Concerto ...

It might seem sheer folly for young artists to make new recordings of well-known concertos. They are competing with the great soloists of the past 100 years in a marketplace glutted with standard ...

Throughout his life, Tchaikovsky wrote several famous concerti, including one for the violin and three for the piano. As his career developed, he had promised to write a cello concerto. During this ...

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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is in chamber-orchestra formation this week — appropriately so for two 18th-century symphonies and a 19th-century homage to the 18th century. Music director Jaap van ...

American cellist Sterling Elliott brought the house down earlier this month when he proposed to his girlfriend Olive after a rousing performance of Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Sequoia ...

Cellist Alexander Hersh acknowledges applause after performing with the Dallas Chamber Symphony, led by music director Richard McKay (applauding on podium), at Moody Performance Hall on Nov. 11, 2025.