To witness cellist Mstislav Rostropovich's appearance in Davies Symphony Hall on Monday night was to be in the presence of greatness of the most complex and far-reaching sort. a performer of ...

complicated musical web in which all roads lead to Dvorak. One of the first cello recordings Eldredge fell in love with was a duet by Rostropovich and fellow cellist Jacqueline du Pre. Rostropovich is ...

The Cello Concerto was the last of the three scores Antonín Dvorák wrote during his three-year residency in the U.S., when he served as director of the National Conservatory in New York City from 1892 ...

The Santa Ana-based Pacific Symphony has been awarded a $1.3-million grant from the newly formed Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation, orchestra officials said Wednesday. The grant, the first ...

Mstislav Rostropovich was many things: a commanding conductor, a political dissident, a public figure in the world of classical music. But before all that, he played the cello. One year after his ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist and conductor who died Friday at 80, was one of the great titans among instrumentalists of the 20th Century. Fortunately he left behind a huge discography ...

The Proms are on for the 124th time and if, like me, you’re an anorak who goes to a lot of them, or listens live on Radio 3, you’ll know that the two-months-long festival is perhaps the most ...

Weilerstein has followed the path of some of history's great cellists by recording the Dvorak concerto The Dvorak Cello Concerto is one of the most performed, and most recorded pieces for the ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist, conductor and champion of human rights who stood at the center of musical and international life for more than half a century, died Friday of cancer at a Moscow ...

The Dvorak Cello Concerto is one of the most performed, and most recorded pieces for the instrument. Since its premiere in 1896, it has drawn some of the world's greatest instrumentalists into its ...