I have been real busy so I have not made any new posts for awhile.

I have been listening a lot to cello music.  My favorite cellist is Rostropovich.  I have a lot of Yo Yo Ma but the master is Rostropovich.  His recordings of the Dvorak cello concerto are beautiful.  Try the one with the London Symphony Orchestra.  His Bach Cello suites are the best also.  Almost any recording by him will be great.  He was the master of the CELLO!!  The Dvorak is the greatest cello concerto in classical music and the Bach cello suites are the best solo music for cello.

I also recently downloaded a recording of the Boccherini cello concertos, vol. 4 on Naxos on Amazon.  It is extremely pleasant and relaxing to listen to.  Boccherini is an underrated Baroque composer and all of his music is quite delightful.

I like the cello because of its sound and how it can demand attention and drown out other instruments.  It can be extremely melodic as well.  I am not a musician but I think it would be a very difficult instrument to play.

The other deals I found recently on Amazon are recordings of the complete String symphonies and solo concertos by Mendelssohn.  They were only 8-9$ each and both downloads have over 4 hours of music.  They are from the BIS label which make extremely good sounding classical music.  Anyways, a real bargain of a boat load of music.  Mendelssohn is quite pleasant and reminds me of Mozart.  His really good stuff was written when he was in his teens!!  So many great bargains of classical music on Amazon!!  I will try to post some more stuff over the next few days.  Have a nice and relaxing weekend!!

Joe P.