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.

List of Cello Concerti

• Eugen d'Albert
  • cello concerto opus 20 in C
• Grazyna Bacewicz
  • two concertos
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • three concertos
• Johann Christian Bach
  • concerto (also, Casadesus forgery)
• Samuel Barber
  • cello concerto op. 22 in A minor
• Arnold Bax
  • cello concerto
• Arthur Bliss
  • cello concerto
• Benjamin Britten
  • symphony for cello and orchestra
• Luigi Boccherini
  • cello concerto in B-flat (of at least twelve concerti)
• Alfredo Casella
  • cello concerto
• Frederick Delius
  • cello concerto
• 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
  • cello concerto op. 85 in E minor
• George Enescu
  • sinfonia concertante op. 8 in B minor
• Einar Englund
  • cello concerto
• Gerald Finzi
  • cello concerto op. 40 in A minor
• Alberto Ginastera
  • Cello Concerto No. 1 (Ginastera)
  • Cello Concerto No. 2 (Ginastera)
• Alexander Glazunov
  • concerto-ballata
• 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
  • cello concerto, op. 120
• Arthur Honegger
  • cello concerto
• André Jolivet
  • two concertos
• 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 minor, Op. 65 (1946)
  • Concerto-Rhapsody, Op. 99 (1963)
• Joonas Kokkonen
  • cello concerto
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  • cello concerto (from the movie Deception)
• Édouard Lalo
  • Violoncello Concerto (Lalo) in D minor
• Leonardo Leo
  • at least five cello concerti
• György Ligeti
  • cello concerto
• Witold Lutoslawski
  • cello concerto
• Frank Martin
  • cello concerto
• Bohuslav Martinu
  • two cello concertos, a concertino, and a sonata da camera
• Peter Mennin
  • cello concerto
• Ernest John Moeran
  • cello concerto in B minor
• Georg Matthias Monn
  • cello concerto -- arranged by Arnold Schoenberg from a harpsichord concerto
• Nikolai Myaskovsky
  • cello concerto op. 66 in C minor
• Josef Myslivecek
  • cello concerti in C, F, D
• Jacques Offenbach
  • concerto militaire
• Arvo Pärt
  • cello concerto
• Krzysztof Penderecki
  • two cello concertos
• 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
  • cello concerto
• 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
  • cello concerto , op. 32
• 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
  • cello concerto, op. 44
• 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
  • cello concerto op. 129 in A minor (1850)
• Harald Sæverud
  • cello concerto, op. 7
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • cello concerto no. 1, op. 107 in E-flat
  • cello concerto no. 2, op. 126 in G
• Carl Stamitz
  • cello concertos
• Arthur Sullivan
  • cello concerto in D (reconstruction)
• Giuseppe Tartini
  • cello concerto in D (and others)
• Virgil Thomson
  • cello concerto
• 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
  • cello concerto
• Bernd Alois Zimmermann
  • concerto en forme de 'pas de trois'

Selected list of other concertante works

• Ernest Bloch
  • Schelomo
• Frank Bridge
  • Oration
• Max Bruch
  • Kol Nidre
• Ernö Dohnányi
  • Concertpiece for cello and orchestra op. 12 in D minor
• Antonin Dvorak
  • Rondo in G minor opus 94, 1893 [1]
  • Silent Woods opus 68, number 5
• Gabriel Fauré
  • Élegie op. 24 in C minor
• Walter Piston
  • Variations for cello and orchestra
• Edmund Rubbra
  • Soliloquy for cello, horns and strings
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Allegro appasionato
  • Suite
• William Schuman
  • Song of Orpheus
• Richard Strauss
  • Romance for cello and (piano or) orchestra
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Variations on a Rococo Theme

External link

The Michael Haydn Project - A reference source on the composers of the 18th century