The rich tone of the cello is ideally suited to music that evokes feelings of love and romance, but it is also the voice of melancholy and longing. Both aspects of the cello are well represented in this collection of popular works, ranging from great masterpieces by Bach, Vivaldi and Haydn, through romantic cello works by Schumann, Dvorák and Saint-Saëns to Elgar’s greatly loved Cello Concerto in E minor. The cello’s lighter side is not neglected in Popper’s sprightly ‘Dance of the Elves’ and Elgar’s charming ‘Chanson de matin’. Cellists include Gautier Capuçon, Han-Na Chang, Natalie Clein, Steven Isserlis, Truls Mørk, Jacqueline du Pré, Mstislav Rostropovich and Julian Lloyd Webber

Artists

Han-Na Chang (cello), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Mstislav Rostropovich/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Iona Brown, Maggie Cole (harpsichord), Steven Isserlis (cello), Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Natalia Gutman (cello), John Lenehan (piano), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Maud Tortelier, Maud Martin-Tortelier (cello), Truls Mørk (cello), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Robert Cohen (cello), Paul Tortelier (cello), Natalie Clein (cello), Alexander Dedyukhin (piano), London Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, The Nash Ensemble, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre National de France, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green, Juha Kangas, Kurt Masur, Mariss Jansons, Myung-Whun Chung, Carlo Maria Giulini, Zdenek Macal, Michel Plasson, Vernon Handley, Rudolf Kempe, Leonard Slatkin, Antonio Pappano, Leonard Bernstein, Paavo Berglund, Gennady Rozhdestvensky