but to three chamber works – a string quartet, a violin sonata and a piano quintet – which had been given their first performances at the Wigmore Hall the previous May. Yet the Cello Concerto ...

Range A cello can play from a low C, two octaves below middle C, known as C2, up to a high A, two octaves above its highest string. Each of the four strings is tuned a fifth apart, making up the notes ...

There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put together, and they are very often at the heart of the music. The cello looks like a violin - but bigger. You couldn't ...