Violoncello concerto
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.
Selected list of Cello Concertos
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- three concertos
- Samuel Barber
- cello concerto op. 22 in A minor (1945)
- Luigi Boccherini
- cello concerto in B-flat (of at least twelve concerti)
- Dvorak
- cello concerto no. 1 op. posth in A
- 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??)
- Sergei Prokofiev
- cello concerto op. 58
- Sinfonia concertante 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 D (and others)
- Antonio Vivaldi
- quite a few cello concertos (perhaps around 30, according to the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Music)
- William Walton
- cello concerto in C minor (1955-6)
Selected list of other concertante works
- Ernest Bloch
- Schelomo
- Benjamin Britten
- symphony for cello and orchestra (1963)
- Max Bruch
- Antonin Dvorak
- Rondo in G minor opus 94, 1893 [2]
- Silent Woods opus 68, number 5
- Gabriel Fauré
- Élegie op. 24 in C minor
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
See Also
- List of compositions for cello and orchestra
- Violin concerto
- Viola concerto
- Clarinet concerto
- Piano concerto
- Harpsichord concerto