This recording is a real tonic. I defy anyone not to smile at Steven Isserlis’s effervescent readings of Haydn’s graceful and urbane cello concertos in C major and in D major. He spins an exquisitely ...

C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos, Nicolas Altstaedt, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen, cond. Hyperion As our attention spans continue to shrink, there’s no better time to bond with the quicksilver music of Carl ...

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 ...

Those drawn-out opening chords are some of the most memorable in all music. Stern, sensitive and dramatic, they connect this 20th century masterpiece with another monolith of the repertoire, Bach's ...