The Russian cellist Anatoly Brandukov was a best man at Rachmaninov’s wedding in the spring of 1902. He was quite a bit older than the groom, but the two had been close friends for some years, and it ...

Sonata for Cello and Piano Yevgeny Sudbin, Piano Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer Alexander Chaushian, Cello Sonata for Cello and Piano Alexander Chaushian, Cello Yevgeny Sudbin, Piano Alexander Borodin, ...

The Eroica Trio is becoming widely known for playing interesting, sometimes provacative arrangements for the piano, violin and cello combination of instruments. They brought their version of ...

Sonata for Cello and Piano Carmine Miranda, Cello Robert Marler, Piano Sonata for Cello and Piano Carmine Miranda, Cello Robert Marler, Piano While there are many fine recordings of Shostakovich’s and ...

Written for his friend and 'best man', Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata turned out to be his last chamber work. Around the turn of the 20th Century, Sergei Rachmaninov was still going through the serious ...

Rachmaninoff's Vocalise takes on a life of its own in this transcription for cello and piano. This performance of it by Truls Mork and Kathryn Stott comes from a concert last fall at the University of ...

This is a disc of high contrasts. Rachmaninov's ardently romantic cello sonata is clearly the work of a piano-obsessed composer, one who couldn't stop himself writing a huge piano part that's ...