I was buying other tickets for events at the Kennedy Center and I've been thinking I really should listen to at least some serious music and I like cellos. So I also bought a ticket to tonight's National Symphony Orchestra concert, which included Steven Isserlis playing Haydn's Cello Concerto in C major. It's a piece that I'm reasonably familiar with as Mstislav Rostropovich played it quite a bit, though I'm not sure if I've ever heard the entire concerto li ve before. It's certainly a piece that... read more
