Symphony Orchestra with Instrumental Solo

Cello and orchestra. 3.3.2.2 / 4.2.3.1 / 2perc / timb / hp / strings

Piano part.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) completed his Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor in 1803, not long after writing the famous letter to his brothers, the Heiligenstadt Testament, in which he lamented his...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) composed the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, in 1806. The premiere by violinist Franz Clement on December 23rd, 1806, at the Theater an der Wien was poorly receive...

Beethoven's concerto for violin, cello and piano in C Major, Op. 56, commonly known as the TRIPLE CONCERTO, was composed in 1803 and premiered in 1808.  The choice of the three instruments effect...

Italian composer and cellist Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) wrote during the Classical era and predominantly in the galante style. Over his career, he composed twelve concertos for the cello, an...

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) composed the Double Concerto in A minor for Violin and Cello, Op. 102 in 1887, marking his final work for orchestra. Written for cellist Robert Hausmann and estranged frien...

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) composed the Double Concerto in A minor for Violin and Cello, Op. 102 in 1887, marking his final work for orchestra. Written for cellist Robert Hausmann and estranged frien...

Max Bruch (1838-1920) composed his VIOLIN CONCERTO No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 in 1866, premiering on April 24, 1866, by Otto von Königslow on violin, with Max Bruch conducting. Following, the violin vir...

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) composed the Andante Spianto and Grande Polonaise Brillante in E-flat Major, Op. 22, between 1830 and 1834. The polonaise, originally composed for solo piano and later scor...

In 1879, Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) was commissioned by Simrock, his publisher, to write a violin concerto. He dedicated his CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN in A Minor, Op. 53/B. 108, to Joseph Joachim, who had p...

Hungarian violinist, composer, and music teacher Jenö Hubay (1858-1937) wrote a total of fourteen SCENES DE LA CZARDA (also SCÈNES DE LA CSÁRDA) over a forty-year period between 1879 and 1920. Intende...

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) started work on his CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA No. 2 in A major, S. 125, in 1839 and 1840. Putting it through a series of revisions, he dedicated the concerto to his stud...

The idea for TOTENTANZ, S. 126 (Dance of the Dead) was conceived by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) in 1838. Two versions were to follow, the first completed in 1853, and the second version finished in 1864....

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) wrote Capriccio Brillant, Op. 22 during his second vist to England. This charming example of Mendelssohn's writing for piano has two movements: an Andante with a gentle,...

In 1775, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote his five violin concertos for Gaetano Brunetti, a violinist in the Salzburg court where he served as Konzertmeister. In a letter to his father, he re...

Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364 (320d) was written by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) in 1779 while he was on a tour of Europe that included Mannheim and Paris. A sort of hybrid between a symphony and a concerto...

Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364 (320d) was written by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) in 1779 while he was on a tour of Europe that included Mannheim and Paris. A sort of hybrid between a symphony and a concerto...

The BASSOON CONCERTO IN B-FLAT MAJOR, K. 191/186E, was composed in June 1774 by eighteen-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). It is widely believed to be the result of a commission by Thaddae...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's (1756-1791) completed his three-movement Concerto for Clarinet in A, K. 622 on a few weeks before his death in 1791, and it is considered his last great completed work. It wa...

Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) between 1784 and 1787, the Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat, K. 447, the work was likely written for hornist Joseph Leutgeb, whose name is mentioned in the...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote the SERENADE No. 5 in D Major, K. 204/213a on August 5, 1775 for ceremonies at the University of Salzburg. Concurrently writing his five violin concertos, the...

The rondo third movement of Niccolò Paganini's VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2 owes its nickname "La Clochette" or "La Campanella" ("Little Bell") to the little bell which plays before each recurrence of the ro...

Composed in the summer of 1909, Rachmaninoff's third Concerto for Piano was premiered in November of that year with the composer as soloist, though he was forced to practice the work on silent keyboar...