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

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
• three concertos
• Samuel Barber
• cello concerto op. 22 in A minor (1945)
• Luigi Boccherini
• Cello Concerto in B-flat (no. 9 of at least twelve concertos)
• Cello Concerto in D
• 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??)
• Victor Herbert
• Cello Concertos No. 1 in D major, No. 2 in E minor
• Edouard Lalo
• Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in D minor (1876)
• György Ligeti
• Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (1966)
• Witold Lutoslawski
• Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (1969-70)
• 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) (http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/artist/artist.cgi?ARTISTID=1089026&TMPL=LONG)
• 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 concertos in C minor and D major
• Antonio Vivaldi
• at least 27 concertos, including one for 2 cellos, in G minor
• William Walton
• cello concerto in C minor (1955-6)

Selected list of other concertante works

• Ernest Bloch
• Schelomo Rhapsodie Hebraïque for violoncelle et grand orchestre
• Benjamin Britten
• symphony for cello and orchestra (1963)
• Max Bruch
• Kol Nidre
• Antonin Dvorak
• Rondo in G minor opus 94, 1893 http://dvorak.musicabona.com/~dvorak/123/
• Silent Woods opus 68, number 5
• Gabriel Fauré
• Élegie op. 24 in C minor
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Variations on a Rococo Theme