Frenchman Henri Casadesus wore several hats: composer, violist and skillful musical mimic. In 1924, Casadesus (1879-1947) unveiled what he claimed to be a long-missing work by George Frideric Handel ...

This is one of the two most performed cello concertos in the world (the other being by Elgar) and with such a story to tell that it would make a great weepy all on its own. Like the New World Symphony ...

Issued by the Frederic Chopin Institute in Warsaw and taken from performances at festivals there in 2009 and 2010 that went under the banner of Chopin and his Europe, this seems a slightly odd disc.

"It's good! awfully emotional! too emotional, but I love it!" For a highly self-critical composer to say this tells us a lot. His longest work, the concerto is like a sampler of all the best music ...

Despite the status that Elgar’s Cello Concerto has acquired since its premiere, there is a case to be made for proposing that it was in fact the Violin Concerto that was truly the composer’s favourite ...

Occasionally, a recording comes along which radically changes a great piece: Nikolaj Znaider's amazing account of Elgar's Violin Concerto is revolutionary. Its marketing pitch is that Znaider plays ...

From the dramatic intensity of Cello Concerto in B minor by Antonín Dvořák to the elegance of Cello Concerto No. 1 by Camille Saint-Saëns, these concertos define the instrument’s greatest moments.

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Vadym Kholodenko, Piano Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor Edvard Grieg, Composer Norwegian Radio Orchestra Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Camille Saint-Saëns, ...