The cello’s mellow timbre is so well-suited to Rachmaninov’s musical idiom that it is surprising – and certainly a shame – that he composed so little for it as a solo instrument. A few early pieces ...

The links, both musical and personal, between Grieg and Delius are many, which makes this a very apt and attractive coupling, bringing together all the works each composer wrote for this medium. This ...

Sonata for Cello and Piano Edvard Grieg, Composer Andreas Brantelid, Cello Christian Ihle Hadland, Piano Intermezzo Edvard Grieg, Composer Christian Ihle Hadland, Piano Andreas Brantelid, Cello Sonata ...

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 ...

This is a puzzling set. In 1903 in Paris Edvard Grieg made a set of wax-cylinder recordings of his own piano music – some of the Lyric Pieces, two movements of his E minor sonata – which remain ...

Grieg Piano SonataWe hear pianist Leif Ove Andsnes in the opening movement from the Piano Sonata, Op. 7, by Edvard Grieg.