Why the Bartók String Quartets are Cutting Edge

By Janet Horvath June 15, 2026

Subjects Artistic Vision, Repertoire

Tags bartok, string quartet

Chamber Music More Dazzling and Awe-Inspiring Piano Trios

By Hermione Lai March 15, 2026

Subjects Artists, Repertoire

Tags Brahms, chamber music, dubois, franck, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, Tchaikovsky

From Improvising in Caves to Spoken in Waves

By Cicely Parnas January 22, 2024

Subjects Artistic Vision, Repertoire

Tags Cello Repertoire, Chris Beroes-Haigis, Cicely Parnas, Contemporary Music, New Cello Repertoire, New Music, repertoire, Solo Cello, Solo Cello Repertoire, Spoken in Waves

Expanding the Cello Repertoire to Include Women Composers

By Wendy Velasco January 30, 2023

Subjects Artistic Vision, Repertoire

Tags cello concerto, Cello Repertoire, David Popper, Dvorak, Franz Liszt, Marie Jäell, Saint-Saëns, Women Composers, Xavier Phillips

Opening Paths: Mexican Composer Ricardo Castro and Latin America’s First Cello Concerto (Part 3)

By Natali Herrera-Pacheco, Horacio Contreras and Germán Marcano June 18, 2022

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags cello concerto, Cello Repertoire, Latin America, Origins of concerto, Pedagogy, Ricardo Castro, Sources, Technique

Opening Paths: Mexican Composer Ricardo Castro and Latin America’s First Cello Concerto (Part 2)

By Natali Herrera-Pacheco, Horacio Contreras and Germán Marcano June 12, 2022

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags cello concerto, Cello Repertoire, José Joaquim Emérico Lobo de Mesquita, Karl Davydov, Latin America, Marix Loevensohn, Mexican Revolution, Pablo Casals, Ricardo Castro

Opening Paths: Mexican Composer Ricardo Castro and Latin America’s First Cello Concerto (Part 1)

By Natali Herrera-Pacheco, Horacio Contreras and Germán Marcano June 4, 2022

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags cello concerto, Cello Repertoire, José Joaquim Emérico Lobo de Mesquita, Latin America, Mexican Revolution, Oaxacan Porfirio Díaz, Ricardo Castro

Cello Concerto Overview: The Should Haves (Part II)

By Janet Horvath April 24, 2022

Subjects Repertoire

Tags Alban Gerhardt, Don Quixote, Ernest Bloch, Janos Starker, Leonard Rose, Maria Kliegel, prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Rostropovich, Saint-Saëns, Schelomo, Schumann, Shostakovich, Sol Gabetta

Cello Concerto Overview: The Should Haves (Part I)

By Janet Horvath April 10, 2022

Subjects Repertoire

Tags Cello Concertos, Cello Repertoire, Dvorak, Dvorak Concerto, Elgar, Elgar Concerto, Gregor Piatigorsky, Jacqueline du Pré, Janet Horvath, Jian Wang, Kian Soltani, Mischa Maisky, Standard Repertoire, Walton, Walton Concerto

Baroque Dance and the Bach Cello Suites (November, 2002)

By Tim Janof March 2, 2022

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags Anna Mansbridge, Bach Cello Suites, Baroque Dance, Nathaniel Rosen, Truls Mork

A Survey of Bach Suite Editions (1995)

By Tim Janof November 30, 2021

Subjects Repertoire

Tags August Wenzinger, Bach, Bach Cello Suites, Dimitry Markevitch, Diran Alexanian, Editions, Hugo Becker, ICS, Internet Cello Society Archive, Janos Starker, Manuscripts, Pablo Casals, Pierre Fournier

Suggested Works by Black Composers for Students

By Timothy Holley March 23, 2021

Subjects Repertoire

Tags Difficulty Level, Music by Black Composers, repertoire, spiritual, Suggested Repertoire

Tyshawn Sorey’s “Cycles of My Being”

By Khari Joyner March 10, 2021

Subjects Repertoire

Tags chamber music, Contemporary Music, Khari Joyner, New Music, Tyshawn Sorey

George Walker’s Sonata for Cello and Piano Deserves a Place in the Standard Cello Repertoire

By Seth Parker Woods February 11, 2021

Subjects Repertoire

Tags 20th Century Music, George Walker, Seth Parker Woods, Standard Repertoire

The Origins of Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major (Part 2 of 2)

By Brinton Smith January 27, 2021

Subjects Historical, Repertoire

Tags Anton Kraft, brinton smith, Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Franz Joseph Haydn, Houston Symphony, James Cervetto, Origin of Haydn's Cello Concerto

Category: Repertoire

Why the Bartók String Quartets are Cutting Edge

Chamber Music More Dazzling and Awe-Inspiring Piano Trios

From Improvising in Caves to Spoken in Waves

Expanding the Cello Repertoire to Include Women Composers

Opening Paths: Mexican Composer Ricardo Castro and Latin America’s First Cello Concerto (Part 3)

Opening Paths: Mexican Composer Ricardo Castro and Latin America’s First Cello Concerto (Part 2)

Opening Paths: Mexican Composer Ricardo Castro and Latin America’s First Cello Concerto (Part 1)

Cello Concerto Overview: The Should Haves (Part II)

Cello Concerto Overview: The Should Haves (Part I)

Baroque Dance and the Bach Cello Suites (November, 2002)

A Survey of Bach Suite Editions (1995)

Suggested Works by Black Composers for Students

Tyshawn Sorey’s “Cycles of My Being”

George Walker’s Sonata for Cello and Piano Deserves a Place in the Standard Cello Repertoire

The Origins of Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major (Part 2 of 2)