Cello Concerto

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  Cello Concerto No. 1

  The Cello Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, Opus 107, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1959. He wrote it for Mstislav Rostropovich, who memorized the work in four days and gave the premiere in Leningrad under Yevgeny Mravinsky, on October 4, 1959 in the Large Hall of the Leningrad Conservatory....

• Cello Concerto

  Samuel Barber's Cello Concerto in A Minor (op. 22), completed on 22 November 1945, was the second of his three concertos (the first being his Violin Concerto, his third is the Piano Concerto). Barber was commissioned to write his concerto for Raya Garbousova, an upstart Russian cellist, by...

• Cello Concerto No. 1

  Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 in 1872, when the composer was age 37. He wrote this work for the Belgian cellist, viola de gamba player and instrument maker Auguste Tolbeque. Tolbeque was part of a distinguished family of musicians closely associated with...

• Cello Concerto

  The Cello Concerto in D major is Arthur Sullivan’s only concerto. It was premièred on November 24, 1866 at the Crystal Palace with August Manns conducting and was one of Sullivan's earliest major works. There are three movements: At the concert at which Sullivan’s Irish Symphony was first performed...

• Cello Concerto No. 2

  Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 119, is written in two movements, like his Fourth Piano Concerto. It was composed for a Dutch Cellist, Joseph Hollmann, in 1902. The Second Concerto is much more virtuosic than the First, but does not lack thematic inventiveness and harmonic...

• Cello Concerto No. 1

  Antonín Dvořák wrote his first Cello Concerto in A major B.10 in 1865. Unlike its brother, the B minor Concerto, Op.104, the A major Concerto has been more than overlooked. Written for cellist Ludevít Peer, it was discovered by composer Günter Raphael years later. Raphael orchestrated and heavily...

• Cello Concerto

  The Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129, by Robert Schumann was completed in a period of only two weeks, between 10 October and 24 October 1850, shortly after Schumann became the music director at Düsseldorf. The concerto was never played in Schumann's lifetime. It was premièred on 9 June 1860, four...

• Cello Concerto

  Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 58 is a concerto written by Sergey Prokofiev between 1933 and 1938. Its duration is approximately 35 minutes. It consists of three movements: The concerto was premiered on November 26, 1938 in Moscow by the USSR State Symphony Orchestra. Alexander Melik-Pashayev was...

• Cello Concerto

  The Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 40, was composed by Gerald Finzi in 1955. The piece is in three movements: The concerto was written as the result of a request by John Barbirolli, and first performed by Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra, with Christopher Bunting as the soloist at the Cheltenham...

• Cello Concerto

  The Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191 by Antonín Dvořák is the most often performed and recorded cello concerto. It was Dvořák's last solo concerto, and was written in 1894-1895 for his friend, the cellist Hanuš Wihan, but premiered by the English cellist Leo Stern. The piece is scored for...