The Cello Concerto music.group_membership written for a Prom Concert held on 3 September 1964 where it was introduced to the world by Jacqueline du Pré and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Norman Del Mar ( at the same concert , du Pré played Edward Elgar 's Cello Concerto with the same orchestra under Sir Malcolm Sargent , the year before she made her famous recording of it under Sir John Barbirolli . )

Since 1995 he has been actively involved in the world of baroque opera , having participated in major productions such as Semele ( Handel ) at the Berlin State Opera with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin , conducted by René Jacobs ; L'Orfeo ( Monteverdi ) at the Goldoni Theatre , Florence , the Théâtre de la Monnaie , Brussels , Covent Garden , London , the Grand Théâtre de Provence , Aix-en-Provence , the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées , Paris , and the BAM , New York , again under René Jacobs but with Concerto music.group_membership ; L ’ Orfeo again , but with Le Concert des Nations and Jordi Savall at the Teatro Real , Madrid and the Liceu , Barcelona ; Solimano ( Johann Adolph Hasse ) at the Berlin and Dresden State Operas with Concerto Köln and René Jacobs ; La Serva Padrona ( Pergolesi ) at the Philharmonie , Berlin and Ludwigsburg Palace with the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble and Thomas Hengelbrock ; Dal Male il Bene ( Marco Marazzoli and Antonio Maria Abbatini ) at the Landestheater , Innsbruck with Concerto Vocale and Attilio Cremonesi ; Don Chisciote della Mancia in Sierra Morena ( Francesco Bartolomeo Conti ) with the University of Salamanca Baroque Orchestra and Wieland Kuijken .