If the violin can be considered the “heart” of the chamber music ensemble, then the cello must be considered its “soul.” And ...

Guy Michel plays the cello but he calls himself a DJ and an emcee. A DJ because he keeps the party going. He plays his electric cello in all the places he was told classical music didn’t fit — like ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Latvian cellist Margarita Balanas introduces us to the soulful world of the cello, exploring its rich sound, expressive range ...

Anna Clyne’s impressive new work is a cello concerto inspired by Persian poetry and outshining the familiar Elgar work in Inbal Segev’s performance Dance is Anna Clyne’s hugely impressive new cello ...

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 ...