Recommended YouTube Videos

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.
— Igor Stravinsky

Solo Cello

Bach Cello Suites 1-6 – Mstislav Rostropovich

Britten Cello Suite No. 1 – Gaspar Cassado

Bach Cello Suite No. 3 – Heinrich Schiff

Ligeti Cello Sonata – Mathias Johansen


Cello + Piano

Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 2 – Colin Carr

Shostakovich Cello Sonata – Natalia Gutman

Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 4 – Colin Carr

Franck Cello Sonata – Yo-Yo Ma


Cello + Orchestra

Elgar Cello Concerto – Jacqueline du Pré

Haydn Cello Concerto, III. – Colin Carr

Schumann Cello Concerto, I. – Pierre Fournier

Dvorak Cello Concerto – Steven Isserlis


Chamber Music

Ravel Piano Trio – Morgenstern Trio

Adés The Four Quarters – Callisto Quartet

Rosamunde String Quartet – Quatuor Ébène

Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time


Orchestra

Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring

Beethoven’s 6th Symphony

Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Sibelius’s 5th Symphony


Just For Fun!

Over the Rainbow – Cat Organ

The Swan – Clara Rockmore, Theremin

Leonard Bernstein Eyebrow Conducting