Building a Library on Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata. Helen Wallace recommends a version of this passionate and turbulent piece of chamber music. The Cello Sonata was overshadowed by the huge success of ...

Written for his friend and 'best man', Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata turned out to be his last chamber work. Around the turn of the 20th Century, Sergei Rachmaninov was still going through the serious ...

Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han teach chamber music at the Aspen Music Festival and School and perform frequently at the festival. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s admirers cherish his Sonata for Cello ...

The Russian cellist Anatoly Brandukov was a best man at Rachmaninov’s wedding in the spring of 1902. He was quite a bit older than the groom, but the two had been close friends for some years, and it ...

Two expressive but seldom-heard compositions – one by Portland composer Elliott Cherry and the other Rachmaninoff’s ultra-romantic Sonata in G Minor – headline a Bates College concert by cellist ...

Alessio Bax, pianist, and Brant Taylor, cellist, perform Sergei Rachmaninov's Sonata for Cello and piano in G minor, Op. 19, during the 14th annual Mimir Chamber Music Festival at Pepsico Recital Hall ...

The cello’s mellow timbre is so well-suited to Rachmaninov’s musical idiom that it is surprising – and certainly a shame – that he composed so little for it as a solo instrument. A few early pieces ...

Join us for a captivating evening of world-class chamber music, set against the breathtaking candlelit backdrop of St Mary le Strand—a hidden Baroque treasure in the heart of London, an intimate and ...

This is a disc of high contrasts. Rachmaninov's ardently romantic cello sonata is clearly the work of a piano-obsessed composer, one who couldn't stop himself writing a huge piano part that's ...