The cello looks like a violin - but bigger. You couldn't hold this under your chin! Instead, it rests on a spike which sticks into the floor and is held between the players legs and played with a bow.

a violin sonata and a piano quintet – which had been given their first performances at the Wigmore Hall the previous May. Yet the Cello Concerto also harked back to Elgar’s last symphonic work ...

Typically, the first violin has the melody ... guiding and influencing the harmonies we hear. Playing the role of the cello in the book is, unsurprisingly, the cello. Its guiding influence ...

It's a close cousin of the violin, viola, and double bass. The cello can be played as a solo instrument ... Nowadays, they come complete with a large metal spike, known as an endpin, which holds the ...

playing a violin piece at Dakota Middle School Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. Svetli-Sella and his orchestra teacher chose "Cello Concerto No. 1" by Dmitri Shostakovich. He described the piece moving from ...