Across cultures and genres, listeners consistently describe the cello as “human,” a rare case where an instrument’s emotional ...

While modern life grows louder and faster, the cello sits patiently in the room, speaking softly until everyone ...

The cello isn't known for playing folk music, or Newfoundland music. But in the town of Elliston in 1850, the cello gave every wedding and funeral a distinct sound heard nowhere else on the island.

International Cello Day is celebrated on December 29 to honour the cello, a deeply expressive string instrument. The day ...

While working on her doctoral thesis, cellist Saskia Rao-de Haas remembers chancing on a 1932 letter from Rabindranath Tagore to his granddaughter. There is an instrument, he says, that he prefers ...

As many have heard through scores like Bach’s “Cello Suite No. 1,” this instrument is quite proficient in creating euphoric sounds of bliss. But cellists venturing into parts unknown are discovering ...

A restored instrument thought to be the oldest surviving Scottish cello is to be brought back to life at a special performance. The cello was made 268 years ago by luthier Robert Duncan in Aberdeen, ...

This musician realised that with the right bow, the Bach Cello Suite No.1 could come to life in a wonderful way on the double bass... Since Bach composed his Cello Suites in the early 1700s, they have ...

Ishmael Ali wears many musical hats: composer, guitarist (in the bands Je’raf and Errata) and co-founder of a recording space in North Lawndale. But it’s his most recent instrument — cello — that has ...