News & features

viola da gamba smashed final

‘The airline is dodging responsibility’, says owner of a smashed viola da gamba

Apocalyptica Metallica cover

Metallica’s ‘Orion’ played on cellos is face-meltingly awesome

Sheku Kanneh-Mason Evening of Roses

Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs at the Baftas 2018 – and becomes first musician to perform at the awards twice

Events

stolen cello

A cellist’s 18th-century instrument has been stolen in Paris

Gautier Capucon

This cellist performed The Swan at 3,356m and in minus 15 degrees…

Gautier Capuçon

Red Priest

Watch some gorgeous Handel at The Foundling Museum

Red Priest

Cello bow fail

This cellist dropped his bow mid-performance but recovered like an absolute pro

Sheku No Woman No Cry

This virtuoso cello arrangement of ‘No Woman No Cry’ is inventive and beautiful

NYOGB Blavatnik Scholars

Meet James, one of the inspirational Blavatnik Scholars of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

baby Brooklyn Duo

‘Perfect’ by Ed Sheeran, played to a newborn baby on cello and piano

Margarita Balanas cellos

Cellist plays one piece of Bach on 20 historic cellos – and the contrast is fascinating

Bach

Hallelujah Cello Chamber

This cellist has rearranged Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah into a spine-tingling chamber masterpiece

Steven isserlis trench cello

This cello was played in the trenches of the First World War

Steven Isserlis

Pere Jovanov - Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson’s ‘They Don't Care About Us’ for cello and loop pedal is CRAZY catchy

glass cello

Just listen to the sound of this cello – you won’t believe what it’s made from

Borusan Quartet CD cover - Company

‘I see them more than my wife’: the Borusan Quartet’s warning to young musicians

12-year-old cellist

This 12-year-old cellist writes and plays his own compositions and they are phenomenal