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	Cello Concerto (Elgar) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The première of the cello concerto was given by Felix Salmond on 27 October 1919 with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer, at the Queen's Hall in London.
		Priestley used the concerto in his 1948 play The Linden Tree in which the daughter of the play's main character, an aging professor of history who is under pressure to retire, is a cellist, and in Act II she practises the concerto offstage.
		The best-loved performance of this piece is that by Jacqueline du Pré, whose recording of the piece in 1965 with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli brought her international recognition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cello_Concerto_(Elgar) (771 words)

	Cello History
		The Solo Cello Suites of J S Bach are an early landmark in the repertoire, and a surprising one in many ways, because as an Italian instrument the cello was usually passed over by German composers in favour of the viola da gamba.
		The vocal qualities of the new brighter cello made it ideal for the romantic concerto which expressed the conflict between the individual and society, but it wasn't until the time of the Dvorak Cello Concerto that the instrument was taken up by composers.
		Cello concertos and sonatas became a standard task for a composer, and Mstislav Rostropovich was behind the writing of major works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Britten, who wrote three solo sonatas as well as a Cello Symphony.
	www.chrisbsmusic.com /cellohistory.html (731 words)

	Music 33: The Cello, 1700-1900
		The viola da gamba is seen as the "cello" of the Renaissance period, as it is similar in size, shape, and pitch range to the cello.
		Concertos for the cello are among the most recognizable pieces in classical music and this website includes clips of four of the major ones: the Dvorak, Haydn D Major, Schumann, and Saint-Saens.
		The Dvorak Concerto for Cello and Orchestra is a particularly special piece, as it is widely regarded as the pinnacle of the cello realm.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~music33/Mus33projects/nodes/cello (725 words)

	Cello Concerto (Dvořák) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wihan, among others, had asked for a cello concerto for quite some time, but Dvořák always refused, stating that the cello was a fine orchestral instrument but totally insufficient for a solo concerto.
		In 1894 one of the teachers at the Conservatory, Victor Herbert, who is also a composer, finished his second cello concerto and premiered it in a series of concerts.
		Wihan suggested several changes to the score of the concerto, the most notorious of which was the cadenza at the end of the third movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cello_Concerto_(Dvorak) (559 words)

	Cello
		A cello is 4 feet long and a double bass is 6 feet long.
		The cello was used for many years to strengthen the bass section of church choirs.
		The cello is the second largest of the string section.
	library.thinkquest.org /5116/cello.htm (327 words)

	Concerto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The concerto, as understood in this modern way, arose in the Baroque period side by side with the concerto grosso, which contrasted a small group of instruments with the rest of the orchestra.
		Brahms's first piano concerto in D minor (pub 1861) was the result of an immense amount of work on a mass of material originally intended for a symphony.
		Britten’s concertos for piano (1938) and violin (1939) are mature works from his early period, while the so-called Cello Symphony (1963) emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Concerto (2048 words)

	Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107
		Both of the violin concertos were composed for David Oistrakh, both of the cello concertos for Mstislav Rostropovich, and it happened that each of those dedicatees introduced his respective First Concerto to the United States and recorded it here within a few weeks of the Soviet premiere.
		Like the Tenth Symphony, with which the First Violin Concerto is contemporaneous, and the chamber works of those years, these concertos are not only substantial but profound, filled with the composer's personal feelings, expressed with his characteristic urgency and, in the case of the present work, with a conciseness not always encountered in his symphonies.
		At various points in the two outer movements the horn seems to be in the position of antagonist to the cello, while at others it is the cello's boon companion, either paving the way for the true soloist's statement or promptly reaffirming it.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2106 (829 words)

	INKPOT#66 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: ELGAR The Cello Concerto - An Inktroduction
		Elgar wrote the concerto throughout the late spring and summer of 1919, and it has an autumnal character in most of its conception.
		The Concerto is an example, perhaps, of the enormous reaction when a man is challenged by forces that he is hopeless to change.
		Elgar's Violin Concerto was inspired by the violinist Fritz Kreisler.
	inkpot.com /classical/elgarvcon.html (814 words)

	Classical Net Review - Schnittke - Symphony #7 & Cello Concerto #1
		The Cello Concerto was begun before the composer experienced the first in a series of catastrophic cerebral strokes.
		The concerto is wildly theatrical, the themes (and their treatment) more agonized than had been the norm for Schnittke prior to this time.
		This movement, a sort of prayer for cello and orchestra, was a late addition to the composer's plans for the concerto.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/c/cha09852a.html (563 words)

	Amazon.ca: Cello Cto/Rococo Vars: Music: Antonin Dvorak,Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky,Herbert von Karajan,Berlin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Concerto For Cello And Orchestra In B Minor, Op.
		The acnowledged master of the cello, Mstislav Rostropovich, much like jazz piano virtuoso Oscar Peterson, grunts and plays his way through what I feel to be the greatest of the romantic concertos for cello.
		This one may not outshine all others, however, it is a recording of this concerto that demands to be heard and fully deserves to be considered a classic.
	www.amazon.ca /Cello-Rococo-Vars-Antonin-Dvorak/dp/B000001GQ8 (1201 words)

	Haydn DM Cello Concerto - www.ezboard.com
		The cello writing is similar -- Kraft no doubt showed Haydn what the cello could do -- but, IMHO, the music of the authentic Kraft works is much shallower than that of the D Major Concerto.
		But just to quickly recap the situation with the "Haydn" D major concerto, we're caught between the Scylla of the authentic manuscript in Haydn's hand and the Charybdis of the complete impossibility that the music came from Haydn's mind.
		I have not played the concerto myself yet, but I have about a dozen of recording of it and was wondering why everyone is doing their own things in the first movement.
	www.cello.org /heaven/mbarchs/aug18/haydndm.htm (652 words)

	Music under Soviet rule: CDs: Shostakovich Cello Cons.
		That all of Shostakovich's music is, in a sense, vocal is nowhere plainer than in his cello concertos, where the sighs and curses of the soloist contrast with the harsh laughter and Bosch-like leers of the woodwind.
		Shostakovich's musical model for his First Cello Concerto was Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto (1952), an enigmatic revision of the composer's already revised First Cello Concerto, which had reached its final form during the Terror in 1938.
		Evgeny Chukovsky reports him as saying "I took a simple theme and tried to develop it." As a summary of the First Cello Concerto, this is so clearly inadequate that we must assume he was referring to one section of it (the first movement), or - more probably - that he was being deliberately evasive.
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/discrev/shoscc.html (716 words)

	The Joachim Raff Society - Cello Concerto No.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Beginning with the Violin Concerto No.1 in 1871, he went on to complete the Piano Concerto in 1873 and the first of his two Cello Concertos in 1874.
		Because of the dearth of repertoire for cellists, the Cello Concerto No.1 in d minor op.193 was particularly welcomed by soloists.
		The slow movement's mood is suddenly broken with a call to attention from the brass, after which the cello begins a perpetuum mobile style theme which goes on to permeate this joyful, fizzing rondo style movement.
	www.raff.org /c_conc1.htm (723 words)

	Dvorak Cello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dvorak completed his Cello Concerto in that same year for his friend Hans Wihan - the sketches for the Concerto were in his luggage on his return from New York.
		Wihan, who was an acknowledged master of the cello, took it upon himself to amend the score.
		The Cello Concerto is a fine example this talent; set in three contrasted movements, it displays power in the first, warm lyricism in the second and bravura in the third.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /nso/DvorakCello.htm (537 words)

	Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
		This magnificent concerto is one of the several masterworks Dvořák composed during his three-year sojourn in New York (1892-95) as director of the National Conservatory of Music.
		Actually, Dvořák's very first attempt at writing a concerto was one for cello in A minor which he composed at the age of 24 but abandoned without completing the orchestration.
		Until he heard Herbert's Concerto, he said, he felt the cello was an ungrateful instrument for a concerto; indeed, even while at work on the B minor Concerto he told friends he had undertaken it only at Wihan's insistence.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=3746 (1050 words)

	Another Dvorak Cello Concerto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"Concerto in A Major dates from the period of Dvorak's engagement as a violist in the Provisional Theatre Orchestra.
		The composer was not completely successful in his attempt at a grand symphonic work there is a lack of balance of form, and verbosity in some places.
		The score shows that Dvorak was perfectly aware of the technical and sound potential of the instrument, and even now the work does not fail to fascinate with its emotional vigour and inventive melodic line.
	www.cello.org /cnc/tim4.htm (388 words)

	Elgar - His Music : Cello Concerto - A Musical Tour
		Elgar does the musical equivalent at the opening of the Cello Concerto, placing the listener in the middle of things from the work's opening bars.This is not the way concertos are supposed to begin.
		This main theme is passed from orchestra to cello and back again, becoming more anguished with each restatement, until it finally returns on the cello in the same subdued manner in which we heard it first.
		Now the cello begins an extended soliloquy that is the concerto's core, just as the cadenza of the Violin Concerto is the core of that work.
	www.elgar.org /3cello-a.htm (970 words)

	Daron Hagen :: Works :: Band :: Concerto for Cello and Wind Ensemble
		It is interesting to note that the work began originally as concerto for violin, composed in 1994 while the composer summered in Sandpoint, Idaho.
		Hagen subsequently arranged the concerto during the Summer of 1997 for wind ensemble and cello.
		The overall form of the concerto is that of a rondo (ABACBA) with the first movement taking the first three sections (ABA) the second the C and the last the BA.
	www.daronhagen.com /new/works/concerto/vcww.html (591 words)

	[Dvorák - ’Cello Concerto] notes by Paul Serotsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ultimately, she refused his hand and the concerto was never fully scored.
		What is really the ’Cello Concerto No. 2 in B minor was written during 1894-5, towards the end of his successful stint in the States.
		From ’cello and clarinet musing the screw tightens, preparing the return of [C].
	www.musicweb.uk.net /Programme_Notes/dvorak_celloconc.htm (1006 words)

	Pro Arte: Schumann; Cello Concerto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He composed his Cello Concerto in just two weeks, completing it on the very day of his first concert with the Düsseldorf orchestra.
		Moreover, the Cello Concerto is unusually concentrated; it needs several hearings for full appreciation of its compact form, its connections between movements - links of sonority and effect, including the wonderful opening sound of woodwind chords, pizzicato strings, and a lovely melody in the solo cello.
		In the slow movement, the chords derived from the opening are pervasive, and the cello, after a wonderfully Schumannesque songlike theme, turns rather to recitative, implying thoughtful speech rather than song, poignantly expressed and shared between the soloist and the orchestra.
	www.proarte.org /notes/schumann.htm (576 words)

	cello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The endpin pops out of the bottom of the cello, and sticks into the floor to balance the instrument.
		She can change the pitch in two ways: by drawing the bow across different strings, and by pressing on the strings with the fingers of her left hand.
		Way back in the 1800s, not all cellos had endpins, so cellists had to squeeze the instrument between their knees.
	www.playmusic.org /string/cello.html (203 words)

	Pro Arte: Joseph Haydn; Concerto No. 2 for cello and orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His concerto output, as eighteenth-century composers go, was unusually modest (even allowing for a number of works that have been lost).
		One of these was the principal cellist, Anton Kraft, for whom Haydn wrote this concerto about 1783, when he was head-over-heels involved with the opera at Eszterhaza.
		to such a degree that the concerto was long believed to have been written by the cellist, though we have Haydn's own autograph manuscript to prove the contrary.
	www.proarte.org /notes/haydn3.htm (344 words)

	Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, Stephen Albert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The cello alone opens the concerto with an angular theme that embraces major, minor, and chromatic elements at once; it is the 'mother theme' for the two that follow.
		After a sudden outburst of sound in the brass and woodwinds, broken by sweeping scales in the strings, the orchestra settles down to drone-like underpinnings for the second theme, a quieter one in minor, characterized by small-spaced intervals.
		The third theme is then taken up by the flutes, and finally by the horns and the entire orchestra, until the second theme suddenly returns in the cello to complete the movement.
	www.schirmer.com /composers/albert_cello_concerto.html (403 words)

	Tchaikovsky's Cello Concerto
		By the age of 18 I had written thirty cello concertos of my own, and was familiar with the medium.
		This was very unusual of Tchaikovsky’s concertos, with the exception of the introduction to the First Piano Concerto.
		It brings to mind the main theme of the Lalo Cello Concerto in D minor, and the opening to the Brahms Op.111 String Quintet.
	www.tchaikovsky-research.org /en/features/article004.html (1315 words)

	Korngold's Cello Concerto and Score for Deception-Lawrence Leviton
		The film opens with her furtively entering the balcony at his performance of the Haydn Cello Concerto in D Major with a college symphony orchestra.
		The exposition, elements of a lyrical middle section and a concluding fugato, are heard in solo practice sessions and orchestra rehearsal and concert performances in the film.
		In this thesis, I examine how the Concerto is used in the film and explore how Korngold later expanded the work for performance on the concert stage.
	www.uwsp.edu /music/lleviton/dissintro2.html (1719 words)

	Dvorak Cello concerto/other works - Vogler
		The title of this CD, "The Secrets of the Dvorák Cello Concerto," immediately set my hype receptors a-quiver, and I had to fight like blazes to keep an open mind.
		She died while the composer was writing his cello concerto, and the references to the song memorialize her in music.
		The substitution of Vogler's cello forces Kirchschlager at one point to take both parts (fortunately, consecutive), but it's the place where the lovers disagree whether the bird they hear is the nightingale (so they have time for more sugar) or the lark (in which case Romeo's got to leave).
	classicalcdreview.com /adcello.html (838 words)

	Amazon.com: Schumann: Cello Concerto: Music: Mischa Maisky,Robert Schumann,Orpheus Chamber Orchestra,Martha Argerich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Concerto for cello and Orchestra in A minor, op.
		Romance for oboe (or violin or cello) & piano (Nicht schnell), Op.
		Maisky's performance of the Schumann cello concerto with Orpheus is splendid too, though I wouldn't regard it as definitive.
	www.amazon.com /Schumann-Cello-Concerto-Mischa-Maisky/dp/B00004Z4Y2 (907 words)

	Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in am
		Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in A minor
		It was the world premiere of a cello concerto by Ethan Winer, the orchestra's principal cellist, who took the solo part.
		Be sure to also see my cello page for play-along MIDI files you can download for free, some articles of interest to cellists, and also information about the Bernard Greenhouse Cello Master Class videos I produced.
	www.ethanwiner.com /concerto.html (2156 words)

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