The adage goes that Vivaldi did not so much compose hundreds of concertos as write the same concerto hundreds of times. However, this disc featuring the estimable cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras ...

Julian Lloyd Webber joins his cellist wife for his 'farewell' album. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 22 September 2014. This latest recording from Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber will have added ...

Jean-Guihen Queyras here tackles eight of the 27 Vivaldi concertos written for the cello, along with two brief Sinfonias by his contemporary Antonio Caldara, weak consommés at the side of the Venetian ...

This is Vivaldi in his shred-fest mode, played by the terrific French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras. It's a movement of one of the two dozen or so cello concertos he wrote for the young residents of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Posterity has acquired a lopsided view of Antonio Vivaldi. His picturesque set of violin concertos known as Le ...

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The cellist Sol Gabetta was born in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1981. From 1992-94 a scholarship enabled her to study at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid, after which she went to ...

Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta made her first appearance in Ireland at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in 2008. Her star turn was in Vivaldi, not just actual cello concertos, but also in a cello ...

There’s something about summer and baroque music — the two dovetail together as neatly as Wimbledon and strawberries or cricket on the village green. The Oxford Philomusica’s annual Summer Baroque ...

Cloud and Light, by Tshio Hosokawa, was written for the ancient Japanes instrument called the sho. This is Vivaldi in his shred-fest mode, played by the terrific French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras. It ...