Cello Handbook/Cello and Orchestra

List of cello concertos

A

 * Samuel Adler (*1928-)
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1995) (24 min)


 * Eugen d'Albert
 * Cello Concerto opus 20 in C (1899)
 * Stephen Albert
 * Cello Concerto
 * Kurt Atterberg
 * Cello Concerto in C minor, Op.21 (1922)
 * Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
 * Concerto in A

B

 * Grażyna Bacewicz
 * Cello concerto no. 1 (1951)
 * Cello concerto no. 2 (1963)
 * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
 * Cello concerto in A minor
 * Cello concerto in B-flat major
 * Cello concerto in A major
 * Johann Christian Bach
 * Concerto in C Minor (Casadesus forgery)
 * Henk Badings
 * First Cello Concerto (1930)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2
 * Leonardo Balada
 * Cello Concerto No. 1
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 New Orleans
 * Samuel Barber
 * Cello Concerto op. 22 in A minor (1945)
 * Arnold Bax
 * Cello concerto in G minor (1932)
 * Paul Ben-Haim
 * Concerto
 * Leonard Bernstein
 * Three Meditations from Mass for cello and orchestra (1977)
 * Boris Blacher
 * Cello concerto (1964)
 * Arthur Bliss
 * Cello concerto F 107 (1970)
 * Ernest Bloch
 * Schelomo
 * Luigi Boccherini
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, G. 477
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, G. 479
 * Cello Concerto No. 3 in G major, G. 480
 * Cello Concerto No. 4 in C major, G. 481
 * Cello Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, G. 474
 * Cello Concerto No. 6 in A major, G 475
 * Cello Concerto No. 7 in D major, G. 476
 * Cello Concerto No. 8 in D major, G. 478
 * Cello Concerto No. 9 in B-flat major, G. 482
 * Cello Concerto in B flat major (arr. F. Grutzmacher)
 * Cello Concerto No. 10 in D major, G. 483
 * Cello Concerto No. 11 in C major, G. 573
 * Cello Concerto No. 12 in E flat major
 * Sergei Bortkiewicz
 * Cello Concerto op.20 (1915)
 * Johannes Brahms
 * Arrangement of the Double Concerto for Solo Cello and Orchestra
 * (arr.- Garben; from the Concerto for Violin and Cello and Orchestra)


 * Havergal Brian
 * Cello Concerto in E-flat (1964)
 * Benjamin Britten
 * Cello Symphony, Op.68 (1963)
 * Gavin Bryars
 * Cello Concerto (1995)

C

 * André Caplet
 * Epiphanie for cello and orchestra (1923)
 * Elliott Carter
 * Cello Concerto
 * Alfredo Casella
 * Cello Concerto (1934-5)
 * John Casken
 * Cello Concerto (1991)
 * Gaspar Cassadó
 * 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
 * Joseph Castaldo
 * Cello Concerto
 * Giovanni Battista Cirri
 * Six cello concertos (opus 14 nos. 1-6)

D

 * Karl Davidov
 * Cello Concerto no. 1 in B minor, op. 5 (1859)
 * Cello Concerto no. 2 in A minor, op. 14 (1863)
 * Cello Concerto no. 3 in D, op. 18 (1868)
 * Cello Concerto no. 4 in E minor, op. 31 (1878)
 * Frederick Delius
 * Cello Concerto (1921)
 * Frédéric Devreese
 * Concertino for cello, bandoneón and string orchestra (1998)
 * Concerto for cello and orchestra (1999)
 * Godfried Devreese
 * Cello concertino (1930)
 * David Diamond
 * Cello Concerto (1938)
 * Albert Dietrich
 * Cello Concerto in G minor opus 32
 * Ernst von Dohnányi
 * Concertpiece Op. 12
 * Cornelis Dopper
 * Cello concerto (1910,1923)
 * Pascal Dusapin
 * Cello Concerto Celo (1996)
 * Henri Dutilleux
 * Cello Concerto 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)

E

 * Klaus Egge
 * Cello Concerto op. 29 (1966)
 * Halim El-Dabh
 * The Invisible Bridge: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2007)
 * Edward Elgar
 * Cello Concerto op. 85 in E minor (1918–1919)
 * George Enescu
 * Sinfonia Concertante, op. 8 in B-flat minor (1901)
 * Sven Einar Englund
 * Cello Concerto (1954)

F

 * Gerald Finzi
 * Cello Concerto op. 40 in A minor (1955)
 * Auguste Franchomme
 * Cello Concerto in C minor op. 33 (1846)
 * Juliette Folville (1870–1946)
 * Concertstuck pour Violoncelle (Concert piece for cello) and orchestra (1905)
 * Triptych for cello and orchestra (manuscript)
 * Charles Fussell
 * Right River (Variations for Cello & String Orchestra)

G

 * Alberto Ginastera
 * Cello Concerto no. 1 opus 36, 1968
 * Cello Concerto no. 2 opus 50, 1980
 * Philip Glass
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
 * Alexander Glazunov
 * Concerto-ballata opus 108 in C, 1931
 * Reinhold Glière
 * Cello Concerto op.87 in D minor, 1946
 * Berthold Goldschmidt
 * Cello Concerto (1953-4)
 * Georg Goltermann
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor Op.14
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor Op. 30
 * Cello Concerto No. 3 in B minor Op.51
 * Cello Concerto No. 4 in G Major Op. 65
 * Cello Concerto No. 5 in D minor Op. 76
 * (total of 8 Cello Concerti)


 * Mats Larsson Gothe
 * Cello Concerto (1999, written for Thorleif Thedéen)
 * Edward Gregson
 * A Song for Chris Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra (2007)
 * Alexander Gretchaninov
 * Cello Concerto op.8 in A minor, 1895
 * Heinz Karl Gruber
 * Cello concerto (1989)

H

 * Daron Hagen
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1996)
 * Concerto for Cello and Wind Ensemble (1998)
 * Asger Hamerik
 * Romance for Cello and Orchestra, Opus 27 (1879)
 * George Frederick Handel
 * Concerto in B Minor, (Casadesus forgery)
 * Christos Hatzis
 * Confessional for Cello and Orchestra (2001)
 * Joseph Haydn
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major H. 7b/1 (approximately 1765)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major H. 7b/2 (Op. 101) (1783)
 * Cello concerto No. 4 in D Major H. 7b/4 (spurious)
 * Cello Concerto in D major (1772)
 * (another 2 Haydn Cello Concertos are considered lost)


 * Victor Herbert
 * Cello concerto No. 1, op. 8 in D (1882)
 * Cello concerto No. 2, op. 30 in E minor (1894)
 * Philippe Hersant
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 (1989)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 (1996–1997)
 * Paul Hindemith
 * three concertos (early op. 3 (1916), Kammermusik #3, and in G, 1940)
 * Leopold Hofmann
 * at least seven cello concertos, in C major (1770s; Badley C1), C major (1771; Badley C2), C major (1760s; Badley C3), C major (1768; Badley C4), D major (1760s or 1771, Badley D1), D major (1760s; Badley D2) and D major (1775, Badley D3) NPL and Naxos recording information. Different editions of D1 disagree, apparently. Published in modern times by Artaria, generally edited by Allan Badley.)
 * Joseph Holbrooke
 * Cello Concerto (1936)
 * Vagn Holmboe
 * Cello Concerto, op. 120 (M. 273 in Paul Rapoport's catalog. 1974/79)
 * Arthur Honegger
 * Cello Concerto (1934)
 * Alan Hovhaness
 * Cello Concerto, Op. 17 (1936)
 * Herbert Howells
 * Cello Concerto (1951–59)

I

 * Jacques Ibert
 * Concerto for Cello and Winds
 * Yun I-sang
 * Cello Concerto

J

 * Frederick Jacobi
 * Cello Concerto (Three Psalms) for Cello and Orchestra (1932)
 * André Jolivet
 * two concertos (1962, 1967)
 * Joseph Jongen
 * Concerto for Cello, Op. 17 (1900)

K

 * 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 (1946)
 * Concerto-Rhapsody in D minor (1963)
 * Tikhon Khrennikov
 * Cello Concerto No.1 in C op. 16, 1964
 * Cello Concerto No.2 op. 30, 1985
 * Vitaly Kireiko
 * Concerto for violoncello and orchestra
 * Giselher Klebe
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op. 29
 * Julius Klengel
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 op. 4, 1880
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 op. 20
 * Cello Concerto No. 3 op. 31 in A minor
 * Cello Concerto No. 4 op. 37, 1903
 * August Klughardt
 * Cello Concerto in A minor op. 59
 * Joonas Kokkonen
 * Cello Concerto (1969)
 * Herman D. Koppel
 * Cello Concerto, Op. 56
 * Erich Wolfgang Korngold
 * Cello Concerto op. 37 (from the movie Deception) (1946)
 * Antonín Kraft
 * Cello Concerto in C Major, Op.4
 * Ernst Krenek
 * Violoncello concerto no. 1, op. 133
 * Capriccio for cello and orchestra, op. 145
 * Violoncello concerto no. 2, op. 236
 * Gary Kulesha
 * Cello Concerto (2006)

L

 * Ezra Laderman
 * Variations on a Passacaglia for Cello solo and Large Orchestra (20 min) (2004)
 * Édouard Lalo
 * Cello Concerto in D minor (1876)
 * Leonardo Leo
 * 6 cello concertos (D major (1737), F minor (undated), A major (1738), D minor (1738), A major (1737) and sinfonia concertata for violoncello and strings in C minor (1737))
 * Yuriy Leonovich
 * Sinfonia Concertante in D minor, Op.54 (2004)
 * Cello Concerto (No.32) (2006)
 * György Ligeti
 * cello concerto
 * David Ludwig
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2004)
 * Witold Lutosławski
 * Cello Concerto (1969/70 or 1970)

M

 * James MacMillan
 * Cello concerto (1997)
 * Gian Francesco Malipiero
 * a cello concerto (1937)
 * Frank Martin
 * cello concerto (1965-6)
 * Bohuslav Martinů
 * two cello concertos (1930, rev. 1939, rev. 1959;1944-5), a concertino (1934), and a sonata or concerto da camera (1940)
 * Lorin Maazel
 * Music for Violincello and Orchestra (Op. 10)
 * David Matthews
 * Romanza for cello and orchestra Op. 49 (1990)
 * Concerto in Azzurro for cello and orchestra Op. 87 (2001–02)
 * Berceuse (2007)
 * Peter Mennin
 * cello concerto (1956)
 * Darius Milhaud
 * at least two cello concertos (1935, 1945)
 * Masatoshi Mitsumoto
 * Concerto for Cello and String Orchestra
 * Ernest John Moeran
 * cello concerto in B minor (1945)
 * Roberto Molinelli
 * Twin Legends for cello and strings (2005)
 * Georg Matthias Monn
 * cello concerto in D major—arranged by Arnold Schoenberg from a harpsichord concerto written in 1746 (date from the Schirmer score)
 * several cello concertos intended so by the composer, including one in G minor that was recorded by Jacqueline du Pré
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Concerto in D for Cello and Orchestra K314 (285d) transcribed by George Szell (originally for oboe / flute in C Major)
 * Cello Concerto in D, K.447 (original for Horn in Eb) (arr. Cassado)
 * Kelly-Marie Murphy
 * This Is the Colour of My Dreams for Cello and Orchestra (1997)
 * Nikolai Myaskovsky
 * cello concerto op. 66 in C minor (1944)
 * Josef Mysliveček
 * cello concertos in C, F, D

N

 * Franz Xaver Neruda
 * five cello concertos (No. 1 op. 57 in E minor, No. 2 op. 59 in D minor, No. 3 op. 60 in A, No. 4 op. 61 in A minor (1887), No. 5 op. 66 in G)
 * Chan Ka Nin
 * Soulmate, for cello and orchestra

O

 * Jacques Offenbach
 * Concerto Militaire (1847)
 * Concerto Rondo (1851)

P

 * Andrzej Panufnik
 * Cello Concerto
 * Arvo Pärt
 * cello concerto
 * Krzysztof Penderecki
 * Sonata for cello and orchestra (1964)
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 (1972)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 (1982)
 * Largo for cello and orchestra (2003)
 * two cello concertos (1967/1972 & 1982)
 * Hans Pfitzner
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 op. 42 in G major (1935)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 op. 52 in A minor (1943)
 * Cello Concerto op. posth. in A minor (1888)
 * Ignaz Pleyel
 * cello concertos in C major, D major, and C major
 * David Popper
 * Cello concerto no. 1 op. 8 in D Minor, 1861
 * Cello concerto no. 2 op. 24 in E minor, 1880
 * Cello concerto no. 3 op. 59 in G major, in one movement
 * Cello concerto no. 4 op. 72 in B Minor, in four movements
 * Nicola Porpora
 * Cello concerto in G major
 * Sergei Prokofiev
 * Cello Concerto, Op. 58
 * Symphony-Concerto, Op. 125 in E minor (1950–52)
 * Cello Concertino, Op. 132 in G minor (one version completed by Kabalevsky, another by Blok) (1952)

R

 * 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
 * Josef Reicha
 * Cello Concertos in F minor, G major and A major (and/or E major) from opus 4
 * Carl Reinecke
 * Cello Concerto op. 82 in D minor (1864)
 * Ottorino Respighi
 * Adagio con variazioni for Cello and Orchestra
 * Alan Ridout
 * Cello Concerto
 * Joaquin Rodrigo
 * Concerto in modo galante (1949)
 * Concerto como un divertimento (1981)
 * Julius Röntgen
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 in E minor (1893/1894)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 in G minor (1909)
 * Cello Concerto No. 3 in F-sharp minor (1928)
 * Hilding Rosenberg
 * Cello Concerto No. 1
 * Cello Concerto No. 2
 * Albert Roussel
 * Cello Concertino (1936)
 * Miklós Rózsa
 * Cello concerto, op. 32
 * Anton Rubinstein
 * Cello Concerto op. 65 in A minor
 * Cello Concerto op. 96 in D minor

S

 * Camille Saint-Saëns
 * Cello Concerto no. 1, op. 33 in A minor (1872)
 * Cello Concerto no. 2, op. 119 in D minor (1902)
 * Aulis Sallinen
 * Cello Concerto, op. 44 (1976)
 * Giacinto Scelsi
 * Cello Concerto
 * Heather Schmidt
 * Cello Concerto (1998)
 * Alfred Schnittke
 * Cello Concerto No. 1(1986)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2(1989–90)
 * Othmar Schoeck
 * Cello concerto op. 61 in A minor (1947)
 * Arnold Schoenberg
 * Cello Concerto in D Major,(1932/33), freely transcribed from Monn's Clavicembalo Concerto in D Major
 * Robert Schumann
 * cello concerto op. 129 in A minor (1850)
 * Anatolijus Senderovas
 * Concerto in Do for cello and orchestra (2002)
 * Dmitri Shostakovich
 * cello concerto no. 1, op. 107 in E-flat (1959)
 * cello concerto no. 2, op. 126 in G (1966)
 * Nikos Skalkottas
 * Cello Concerto - lost (1938)
 * Leo Sowerby
 * Cello Concerto (1929–1934)
 * Carl Stamitz
 * Cello concerto No. 1 in G Major
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 in A Major
 * Cello Concerto No. 3 in C Major
 * Cello Concertos No. 4 in C (from around 1777)
 * Arthur Sullivan
 * Cello Concerto in D (reconstruction) (1866)
 * Johan Svendsen
 * Cello Concerto
 * Harald Sæverud
 * Cello Concerto, op. 7 (1931)

T

 * Alexandre Tansman
 * Cello Concerto
 * Giuseppe Tartini
 * Cello Concerto in D
 * Cello Concerto in A
 * Hristo Tsanoff
 * Concert for violoncello and orchestra No.1 (2004) link
 * Boris Tchaikovsky
 * Cello Concerto in E, 1964
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 * Cello Concerto in B Minor (1893, unfinished), completed by Yuriy Leonovich in 2006.
 * Alexander Tcherepnin
 * Georgian Rhapsody for Cello and orchestra op. 25 (1922)
 * Mystère for Cello and Chamber Orchestra Op. 37/2 (1925)
 * Virgil Thomson
 * Cello Concerto (1949)
 * Ernst Toch
 * Concerto for Violoncello and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 35 (1924)

V

 * Moisei Vainberg see Mieczyslaw Weinberg
 * Henri Vieuxtemps
 * Cello Concerto in A Minor, op. 46 post.
 * Cello Concerto in B Minor, op. 50 post.
 * Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)
 * Grande Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1, Op. 50 (1915)
 * Cello Concerto no. 2 W. 516 (1953)
 * Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra W. 454 (1945)
 * Mihaly Virizlay
 * Concerto for Cello
 * Antonio Vivaldi
 * RV 398 in C
 * RV 400 in C
 * RV 401 in C
 * RV 402 in Cm
 * RV 403 in D
 * RV 404 in D
 * RV 405 in Dm
 * RV 406 in Dm (related to RV 481)
 * RV 407 in Dm
 * RV 408 in E-flat
 * RV 410 in F
 * RV 411 in F
 * RV 412 in F
 * RV 413 in G
 * RV 414 in G
 * RV 415 in G
 * RV 416 in Gm
 * RV 417 in Gm
 * RV 418 in Am
 * RV 419 in Am
 * RV 420 in Am
 * RV 421 in Am
 * RV 422 in Am
 * RV 423 in B-flat
 * RV 424 in Bm
 * RV 531 in Gm for 2 Cellos
 * Vladimir Vlasov
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major
 * Cello Concerto No. 2
 * Robert Volkmann
 * cello concerto in one movement op. 33 in A minor (1853–55)
 * Antonín Vranický
 * concerto in D minor
 * Pavel Vranický
 * concerto in C major

W

 * Georg Christoph Wagenseil
 * concertos in C major and A major (published by Doblinger around 1960 by Fritz Racek and/or with cadenzas by Enrico Mainardi)
 * William Walton
 * cello concerto in C minor (1955-6)
 * Mieczyslaw Weinberg
 * Cello Concerto op. 43 in C minor (1956)
 * Felix Weingartner
 * Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.60 (1917)
 * Graham Whettam
 * Concerto Drammatico (1998)
 * John Williams
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1994)
 * Elegy for Cello and Orchestra (1997)
 * Heartwood for Cello and Orchestra (2002)
 * Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
 * Cello Concerto in C, op. 31

Y

 * Takashi Yoshimatsu
 * Cello Concerto
 * Isang Yun
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1975/76)

Z

 * Winfried Zillig
 * Concerto by for cello and brass band
 * Bernd Alois Zimmermann
 * concerto en forme de 'pas de trois'
 * Samuel Zyman
 * Cello Concerto (1990)
 * Reflection, for Solo Cello and Seven Celli (2001)