The swan of the title is of 300-year-old cello, Stradivarius ... They want to have a relationship with it. What about that part of the story? Is that true to life? DELBANCO: Well, it was true ...

Saint-Saëns famously sets The Swan, from his Carnival of the Animals, as a solo cello, and ravishingly beautiful it is ... string writing – there are up to seventeen separate string parts – it has ...

How about The Swan, in some arrangement that involves orchestra? The Swan is the most famous cello piece, right? Maybe? As it happened, Weilerstein played the sarabande from Bach’s Suite in E flat, ...

‘Here we are with a big crew, drones, cameras – and in the helicopter with the cello – so we all go on top of this mountain 3,356m, it’s -15, wearing a tuxedo. You can just imagine the scene! It was ...