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A violoncello concerto is a concerto for solo violoncello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments. These pieces have been written from the time of Vivaldi and Tartini if not earlier, and continue to be written into the present day. There are extremely well-known examples from Joseph Haydn, Schumann, Dvořák, Prokofiev, Elgar, Saint Saëns' 2 concerti, Shostakovich no. 1 and Shostakovich no. 2, and an often-played one (of about a dozen he wrote) by Boccherini which has been rescued from its mangled edition by Grützmacher, but there are others in the standard repertoire and many others which are not.
There are also several often-played works not called concerto worth noting here, including Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, Bruch’s Kol Nidre, the Schelomo of Bloch, and the Elegy of Fauré. Also Benjamin Britten's Cello symphony and George Enescu's sinfonia concertante which are longer, true, than some concerti. Also Frank Bridge's Oration but this is not played nearly so often! N.B. So the omission from this brief list of other concerti/concertante works is not meant to speak to their value...
List of Cello Concerti
- Eugen d'Albert
- cello concerto opus 20 in C
- Grazyna Bacewicz
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Johann Christian Bach
- concerto (also, Casadesus forgery)
- Samuel Barber
- cello concerto op. 22 in A minor
- Arnold Bax
- Arthur Bliss
- Benjamin Britten
- symphony for cello and orchestra
- Luigi Boccherini
- cello concerto in B-flat (of at least twelve concerti)
- Alfredo Casella
- Frederick Delius
- Henri Dutilleux
- cello concerto tout un monde lointain
- Dvorak
- cello concerto no. 1 op. posth in A
- cello concerto no. 2 op. 104 in B minor
- Edward Elgar
- George Enescu
- sinfonia concertante op. 8 in B minor
- Einar Englund
- Gerald Finzi
- cello concerto op. 40 in A minor
- Alberto Ginastera
- Cello Concerto No. 1 (Ginastera)
- Cello Concerto No. 2 (Ginastera)
- Alexander Glazunov
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- cello concerto no. 1 in C
- cello concerto no. 2 in D
- (several possibly authentic??)
- Victor Herbert
- Cello Concerto No. 1 (Herbert)
- Cello Concerto No. 2 (Herbert)
- Paul Hindemith
- three concertos (early op. 3, Kammermusik #3, and in G, 1940)
- Vagn Holmboe
- Arthur Honegger
- André Jolivet
- Dmitri Kabalevsky
- cello concerto no. 1 op. 49 in G minor (1948-9)
- cello concerto no. 2 op. 77 in C minor (1964)
- Aram Khachaturian
- cello concerto in e
- concert-rhapsody
- Joonas Kokkonen
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- cello concerto (from the movie Deception)
- Édouard Lalo
- Violoncello Concerto (Lalo) in D minor
- Leonardo Leo
- at least five cello concerti
- Gyorgy Ligeti
- Witold Lutoslawski
- Frank Martin
- Bohuslav Martinu
- two cello concertos, a concertino, and a sonata da camera
- Peter Mennin
- Ernest John Moeran
- cello concerto in B minor
- Georg Matthias Monn
- Nikolai Myaskovsky
- cello concerto op. 66 in C minor
- Josef Myslivecek
- cello concerti in C, F, D
- Jacques Offenbach
- Arvo Pärt
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- Hans Pfitzner
- three concertos (op post in A minor, op. 42 in G, op. 52 in A minor)
- Ignaz Pleyel
- cello concertos C major, D major, C major
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Sinfonia concertante op. 125 in E minor (after the cello concerto, op. 58) from 1950-52
- cello concertino op. 132 in G minor (incomplete)
- Joachim Raff
- Cello Concerto No. 1 op. 193 in D minor from 1874
- Cello Concerto No. 2 op. posth in G from 1876
- Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Carl Reinecke
- cello concerto op. 82 in D minor
- Joaquin Rodrigo
- concerto in modo galante (1949)
- concerto como un divertimento (1981)
- Hilding Rosenberg
- Cello Concerto No. 1 (Rosenberg)
- Cello Concerto No. 2 (Rosenberg)
- Miklos Rozsa
- Anton Rubinstein
- cello concerto op. 63 (65?) in A minor
- cello concerto op. 96 in D minor
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- cello concerto no. 1, op. 33 in A minor
- cello concerto no. 2, op. 119 in D minor
- Aulis Sallinen
- Alfred Schnittke
- Cello Concerto No. 1 (Schnittke) (1986)
- Cello Concerto No. 2 (Schnittke) (1989-90)
- possibly others?
- Othmar Schoeck
- cello concerto op. 61 in a (1947)
- Robert Schumann
- Harald Sæverud
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Carl Stamitz
- Arthur Sullivan
- cello concerto in D (reconstruction)
- Giuseppe Tartini
- cello concerto in D (and others)
- Virgil Thomson
- Moisei Vainberg
- cello concerto op. 43 in C minor
- Henri Vieuxtemps
- at least two cello concerti
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
- two cello concerti (1915, 1953)
- Antonio Vivaldi
- quite a few cello concertos (perhaps around 30, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music)
- Robert Volkmann
- cello concerto in one movement op. 33 in A minor (1853-55)
- William Walton
- cello concerto in C minor (1955-6)
- Isang Yun
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann
- concerto en forme de 'pas de trois'
Selected list of other concertante works
External link
The Michael Haydn Project (http://www.haydn.dk) - A reference source on the composers of the 18th century
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