Violoncello concerto
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A violoncello concerto (commonly called a cello 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 in the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike the violin, the cello had to face harsh competition from the older, well-established viola da gamba. As a result few important cello concertos were written during the Classical period with the notable exceptions of those by Haydn and Boccherini. Its full recognition as a solo instrument came during the Romantic era. From then on, cello concertos have become more and more frequent. Most post-World War II composers have written at least one, along with the more usual piano and violin concertos.
[edit] Selected list of Cello Concertos
Cello concertos near the center of the "repertoire". The big list of cello concertos has been moved to List of compositions for cello and orchestra.
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Cello Concerto in A minor
- Cello Concerto in B-flat major
- Cello Concerto in A major
- Samuel Barber
- Cello Concerto, Op. 22 in A minor (1945)
- Luigi Boccherini
- Cello Concerto In B-Flat Major (No. 9 of at least twelve concertos)
- Cello Concerto in D
- Gaspar Cassado
- Cello Concerto in D Minor, (1926)
- Cello Concerto in E Major, based on Tchaikovsky's Piano Pieces, Op.72, (1940)
- Cello Concerto in D Major, based on Weber's Clarinet Concerto No.2, in E flat Major, Op.74
- Cello Concerto in D Major, based on Mozart's Horn Concerto No.3 in E flat Major, K.447
- Cello Concerto in A Minor, based on Schubert's Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano, D.821
- Henri Dutilleux
- Tout un Monde Lointain (1970)
- Antonín Dvořák
- Cello Concerto No. 1 in A, Op. posth
- Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 104 in B minor (1894-1895)
- Edward Elgar
- Cello Concerto op. 85 in E minor (1918-1919)
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Cello Concerto No. 1 in C
- Cello Concerto No. 2 in D
- (several others, possibly authentic?)
- Victor Herbert
- Cello Concerto No. 1 in D major
- Cello Concerto No. 2 in E minor
- Paul Hindemith
- Cello Concerto in E flat major op. 3 (1916)
- Kammermusik #3 for cello and 10 instruments op. 36/2 (1925)
- Cello Concerto in G (1940)
- Dimitri Kabalevsky
- Cello Concerto No. 1 in G minor, opus 49
- Cello Concerto No. 2 in C minor, opus 77
- Antonin Kraft
- Edouard Lalo
- Cello Concerto in D minor (1876)
- György Ligeti
- Cello Concerto (1966)
- Witold Lutosławski
- Cello Concerto (1969-70)
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- Cello Concerto No. 1
- Cello Concerto No. 2
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Cello Concerto op. 58
- Symphony-Concerto op. 125 in E minor from 1950-52
- Cello Concertino op. 132 in G minor (incomplete) (1952)
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Cello Concerto No. 1, op. 33 in A minor (1872)
- Cello Concerto No. 2, op. 119 in D minor (1902) ([1])
- Robert Schumann
- Cello Concerto op. 129 in A minor (1850)
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Cello Concerto No. 1, op. 107 in E-flat (1959)
- Cello Concerto No. 2, op. 126 in G (1966)
- Giuseppe Tartini
- Cello Concerto in C minor
- Cello Concerto in D major
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Cello Concerto in B Minor (1893, unfinished), completed by Yuriy Leonovich in 2006.
- Antonio Vivaldi
- at least 27 concertos, including one for 2 cellos, in G minor
- William Walton
- Cello Concerto in C minor (1955-6)
[edit] Selected list of other concertante works
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Ernest Bloch
- Schelomo Rhapsodie Hebraïque for violoncelle et grand orchestre
- Johannes Brahms
- Double Concerto in Am for Violin and Cello Op. 102
- Benjamin Britten
- Cello Symphony (1963)
- Max Bruch
- Antonín Dvořák
- Rondo in G minor opus 94, 1893 [2]
- Silent Woods opus 68, number 5
- Richard Strauss
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
