Most cellists don't graduate to playing the solo cello music of Bach until later in a career. Not so with cellist Daniel Mueller-Schott. His debut recording was solo Bach, and that music is also a big ...

An evening of music for solo cello can be a challenging affair. The cellist doesn’t have the physical mobility of a violinist. His instrument is inherently less showy and dramatic than the pianist’s ...

In her determination to be interesting, the cellist Alisa Weilerstein has made herself perplexing. She is deeply immersed in “Fragments,” a multiyear mission in which she’s commissioning short pieces ...

It may seem a strange compliment, but Philip Glass’ new solo cello piece, “Songs and Poems for Cello,” gains much of its potency and poetry from sounding so little like the Philip Glass that we’ve ...

The cello is a very fine instrument - just ask Yo-Yo Ma - but it has some fundamental weaknesses. The most obvious one is that there's no way to play more than two of its four strings simultaneously.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Warm, rich and lyrical, the cello is the instrument whose sound we often think of as closest to the ...