Thirty years ago it looked as if cellist Mischa Maisky was set to become one of the Soviet Union's prize musicians. Born in 1948 in Riga, the capital of the then Soviet satellite-state of Latvia, ...

The Latvian-born, Russian-trained, Belgium-residing Israeli cellist Mischa Maisky is nothing if not larger than life. It's a quality that's not just there in the glowing romantic warmth of his playing ...

Cellist Mischa Maisky is coming back to South Korea for the first time in five years, with three recitals in April and May. The cellist will be accompanied by pianist Lily Maisky, who is also his ...

Dazzling precision, fleet brilliance and tender lyricism combined in this chamber music programme It’s more than a quarter of a century since Martha Argerich last gave a solo recital in the UK. Since ...

With his bushy gray hair and Issey Miyake pleated shirts, he seemed more like an ascetic onstage than a musician. But on May 6 Latvian cellist Mischa Maisky will perform his all-time favorite, Suites ...

Mischa Maisky had a scant 48 or so hours at home before he and his cello would hit the road once again. For four weeks prior to that, the acclaimed 71-year-old musician had been traveling and ...

In Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo, the solo cello represents King Solomon, wordlessly speaking the sober, bitter text from Ecclesiastes that begins “Vanity of vanities …” Conductor Asher Fisch and the West ...

It's difficult to imagine the suffering that the people of Ukraine have been going through at the hands of the invading Russian Army for the last month. How does someone live with the distinct ...

On this day in 1975, the great Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich passed away. We remember him with a performance of his Cello Concerto No. 1, which composed in 1959 for Mstislav Rostopovich.