It's a close cousin of the violin, viola, and double bass. The cello can be played as a solo instrument ... Each of the four strings is tuned a fifth apart, making up the notes C, G, D and A. How to ...

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 ...