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| Classical Composer: | Saint-Saëns, Camille |
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| Work: | Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 |
| Year Composed: | 1872 |
| Instrumentation: | cello; 2.2.2.2 - 2.2.0.0 - timp - str |
| Publishers: |
Chester Music and Novello & Co. C.F. Peters Leipzig Edwin F. Kalmus Schott Music Éditions Durand The Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection Edition Eulenburg |
| Duration: | 00:20:00 |
| Period: | Romantic |
| Work Category: | Concerto |
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It was in 1872 that Camille Saint-Saëns wrote the first of his two cello concertos. The Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33, has enjoyed much greater popularity than the demanding second concerto of 1902. The former was first performed by Auguste Tolbecque, to whom it was dedicated, in a concert at the Conservatoire. In a single movement, the concerto allows the soloist almost immediate entry, in the first bar, with the principal theme, marked by its triplet figuration, its final rising and falling semitone figure echoed in a lower register. A quieter second subject leads to a brief development, but the expected recapitulation leads, instead, to a minuet-like B flat major Allegretto con moto introduced by muted strings and including a cadenza for the soloist. An oboe reminiscence of the principal theme, taken up by the strings and the soloist, moves on, through the latter's rising and falling semitone figure, to the counterpart of a slow movement, a passage marked Un peu moins vite. The soloist eventually leads the way to the return of the principal theme and a final Molto allegro.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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