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baby Brooklyn Duo

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

Steven Isserlis vibrato

A top cellist told us the secret of great vibrato

Margarita Balanas cellos

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

Bach

olivier messiaen

This composer wrote his most famous work while in a prisoner-of-war camp

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

Cello helps baby stop crying

This dad stops his baby crying by playing cello... and it really works

berio sequenza scores

These are the definitively the hardest pieces of music to play

how to make your violin sound like a cello

Want to make your violin sound like a cello?

Charlotte Bray

‘There should be more female role models for young girls who want to compose’

Brooklyn Duo and Dover Quartet

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ for string quartet, piano and cello will give you goosebumps

Videos

Cellist improvises in stairwell

This cellist played in a stairwell and the acoustics were out of this WORLD

Brooklyn Duo Despacito

‘Despacito’ on cello, piano, mandolin and cajon is awesome