The world of classical music can be inaccessible. Instruments are difficult to learn, lessons are expensive, and it is arguably less immediate than pop or rock. But cellist, composer and singer Abel ...

They’re one of the greatest glories of classical music but the Cello Suites took many decades to be appreciated and understood. Steven Isserlis tells the story of ‘one of the pillars of western ...

Crieff-born performer wins prestigious title after dazzling judges with a powerful Dvořák concerto performance ...

Music of profound sorrow and exceptional beauty: Elgar’s Cello Concerto is a phoenix rising from the ashes of a world at war, an elegiac lament for an England lost forever. Much of Edward Elgar’s ...

Heitor Villa-Lobos is seen as a one-hit wonder – but virtuoso cellist Antonio Meneses's new CD shows the variety in his work Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...

When the pandemic hit last year, cellist Matt Haimovitz admits that at first he felt paralyzed after being on the road touring and performing for more than three decades. He started wondering: What's ...

Here are 7 pieces of classical music to fire the senses.... Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie. I knew the first time I listened ...

Enjoy this utterly infectious cello rendition of the Bee Gees’ 1970s pop ballad. Classical pop song covers are having a renaissance, courtesy in large part to the trifecta of musical greatness known ...

Louise Alder excels in a vibrant live recording of Handel’s sparkling opera-oratorio; perfect poise from Hee-Young Lim; and Eva-Maria Westbroek in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Rampant with glorious music, ...