Cello concerto

3 movements, 1964†, 20:30

Full score completed 13 April 1964

cello soloist
3 flutes (1 also piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, snare drum, strings

I Allegro più lento
II Andante
III Allegro moderato – Tempo grazioso e cantabile

United Music Publishing

Timings

Igloi/Boult 1971Wallfisch/Yates 2010
I Allegro più lento7:118:16
II Andante6:306:32
III Allegro moderato – Tempo grazioso e cantabile6:146:55
Total19:5521:43

Performances

5 February 1971 [first performance] Queen Elizabeth Hall
19 July 1971 BBC
Thomas Igloi, Polyphonia, conductor Sir Adrian Boult
25 September 1991 St Johns, Smith Square, London
Moray Welsh, Thames Sinfonia, conductor Paul Taylor
20–22 September 2010 [world premiere recording] St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
Raphael Wallfisch (cello), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates

Recordings

Dutton Vocalion CDLX 7263 (2 discs) released 2011
20–22 September 2010 [world premiere recording] St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
Raphael Wallfisch (cello), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates