My favorite part of one of my favorite piece... the three last minutes of the Elgar cello concerto, absolute and pure beauty! Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor : Aziz Shokhakimov | Camille Thomas

Elgar’s Cello Concerto, an intensely poignant, reflective and individual musical statement, has enjoyed unflagging popularity among musicians and listeners for over a century. In the beautiful, poignant slow movement, the solo line assumes the character of a human voice, its eloquent utterances choked, broken and punctuated by sighs. “There is something refreshingly straightforward…about Gabriel Schwabe’s approach to the Elgar cello concerto, a refusal to overstate its grandiose sense of tragedy

Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto: one of those “full range of the instrument” moments—over 5 octaves, finishing with artificial harmonics ✨ Share your favorite technical strategy for this passage👇 #cellomusic #cellist #saintsaens #cello | Cellopedia