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Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last major completed work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War , when his music had already become out of fashion with the concert-going public.
It was the Peresson cello that du Pré played for the remainder of her career until 1973, using it for a second, live, recording of the Elgar Concerto, and her last studio recording, of Frédéric Chopin's Cello Sonata in G minor and César Franck's Violin Sonata in A arranged for cello, in December 1971.
Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto received its first complete recording in 1928. A truncated version had been recorded under the composer's supervision, using the acoustic recording process, but it was not until the introduction of electrical recording in the mid-1920s that large orchestral works of this kind could be adequately put on disc.
Twentieth-century composers have made the cello a standard concerto instrument, along with the already-rooted piano and violin concertos; among the most notable concertos of the first half of the century are those of Elgar, Prokofiev, Barber and Hindemith.
Her breakthrough came in 1930, with a recital at the Wigmore Hall, at which she was accompanied by another Royal College of Music student, Joan Black. [3] [5] The programme included a piano reduction of the Elgar Cello Concerto, as well as works by Ravel, Falla and Delius; a Times review describes her as "everywhere assured, enthusiastic, and thoroughly musical", singling out the pair's Delius ...
Cello Concerto in E minor: concertante: cello and orchestra: Sidney and Frances Colvin — Novello 86: 1921–22: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor : arrangement: transcription for orchestra, Fantasia 1921, Fugue 1922 — — Novello 87: 1930: The Severn Suite: brass band: transcribed for orchestra (1932)) 1. Introduction (Worcester Castle) 2 ...
Kanneh-Mason's second album Elgar was released by Decca Classics on 10 January 2020. It features a recording of the Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. The album also includes arrangements of traditional melodies, along with works by Bloch, Bridge, Elgar, Fauré, and Julius ...
Cello Concerto (Elgar) R. Romance for bassoon (Elgar) V. Violin Concerto (Elgar) This page was last edited on 2 February 2016, at 01:29 (UTC). Text is available ...