Earlier in the year I was able to record a handful of cello pieces to add to the collection on my YouTube channel, and today I actually...

In honor of Alwin Schroeder's 167th birthday, here are the Sarabande and Gigue from the Suite in E minor by Julius Klengel, his Leipzig...

Klengel dedicated his Op. 2 cello pieces to Schroeder. Listen to the opening Berceuse. During the 1880s, two outstanding cellists...

Alwin Schroeder’s status as a self-taught cellist gained widespread notoriety from at least as early as 1885. That year the Leipzig...

Alwin Schroeder's 1888 edition of the Bach Cello Suites is often overlooked in the literature on the suites. I believe it deserves...

Listen to Five Spring Caprices by Pipkov, arranged for cello and piano by G. Dean In Bulgaria, the month of March is named after Baba...

Listen to my performance of Bergner's Reverie Best known as the first cellist of the New Philharmonic Society for 47 seasons, Frederick...

Before the winter break I spent a few days among the Cello Collections at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Although I have...

Liebesleben (Love Scenes), a "little suite" for cello and piano, was published in Liepzig by Max Brockhaus in 1894. I discovered it in...

Listen to my performance of Chanson Napolitaine by C. A. Casella fils A second-generation member of an Italian cello-playing family,...

One of Alwin Schroeder’s students at the Leipzig Conservatory was Hugo Schlemueller (1872-1918), the son of a Leipzig music critic. There...

Listen to the first part of Heberlein's Concertstuck, Op. 8 Heberlein and other cellists performed this work in Detroit during the 1890s....

It was a world beyond anything I had yet experienced or imagined. When I recall it, the sounds come back to me first. I hear the...

Bradbury and Davies perform Piatti's Fantasy on Bellini's La Sonnambula British cellist Adrian Bradbury’s 2020 2-CD release of Alfredo...

Listen to Souvenir d'Amerique The Italian composer and cellist Gaetano Braga (1829-1907), wrote his earliest musical works in his early...

A central feature of Italian opera through the 19th century, the bel canto singing style also influenced cellists of the Italian school...

Back in June, I kicked off my series on Boston Symphony cellist-composers with a post on Ernst Jonas. Today I am excited to share another...

Listen to Bayrhoffer's Wiegenlied Carl Bayrhoffer (1859-1926) was BSO first cellist for the latter part of the orchestra’s inaugural...

It has been a wonderful couple of weeks here in Bloomington, Illinois, where after a virtual festival in 2020 the Illinois Chamber Music...

Listen to Heberlein's Cavatine, Op. 26 A member of the Boston Symphony cello section from the fall of 1898 until 1909,/1/ Hermann...