Concertos for Orchestra

[Dundonnell]

The arrival this morning of an imported cd from the USA containing Walter Piston's Concerto for Orchestra-a piece I have been seeking for years-encouraged me to reflect on the number of Concertos for Orchestra actually composed.

Wikipedia supplies a list but it is incomplete.

So...I tried to make up one of my own   * signifies those I have in my own collection.

(Qualifications: has to be called simply "Concerto for Orchestra"; no other title will qualify, although a 'sub-title' will do. Concertos for String Orchestra don't count. Nothing by Alan Hovhaness gets included because his Concertos are for different combinations of instruments. Cut-off date of 1981 arbitrarily imposed by me )

1925: Paul Hindemith*
1930: Tadeusz Szeligowski*
1931: Gian Francesco Malipiero
1932: Alfredo Casella
1933: Mario Pilati*
1933: Walter Piston*
1934: Goffredo Petrassi No.1*
1938: Kurt Hessenberg No.1*
1939: Zoltan Kodaly*
1943: Bela Bartok*
1944: Morton Gould*
1951: Goffredo Petrassi No.2*
1953: Goffredo Petrassi No.3*
1954: Goffredo Petrassi No.4*
1954: Witold Lutoslawski*
1955: Goffredo Petrassi No.5*
1957: Kurt Hessenberg No.2
1957: Goffredo Petrassi No.6*
1961: Giya Kancheli
1962: Grazyna Bacewicz
1963: Sir Michael Tippett
1963: Rodion Shchedrin No.1 ("Naughty Limericks")*
1964: Havergal Brian*
1964: Goffredo Petrassi No.7*
1965: Roberto Gerhard*
1966: Viktor Kalabis*
1967: Robin Holloway No.1
1968: Thea Musgrave
1968: Rodion Shchedrin No.2 ("The Chimes")*
1969: Elliott Carter
1972: Goffredo Petrassi No.8*
1973: Sir Richard Rodney Bennett*
1974: Christian Darnton*
1974: Anthony Payne
1978: Herman D. Koppel*
1978: Robin Holloway No.2
1981: Roger Sessions*

No French Concertos for Orchestra? No Swedish, or Dutch, or Norwegian?

So.....go on any other compulsive list-makers. Who have I missed?

[erato]

Conrad Baden; konsert for orkester, 1968

[erato]

And Gunther Schuller, 1966.

[Dundonnell]

Conrad Baden; konsert for orkester, 1968

Right, there's one Norwegian at least

[eschiss1]

If the Roussel concert pour petit orchestre also doesn't count for the same reason that concertos for string orchestra don't...
(Erland von Koch also wrote a "concerto for small orchestra", composed 1955.)
There is Jacques Ibert's "Louisville-concert, pour orchestre" (published 1954) which is closer.
There's the Swiss Roger Vuataz's petit concert pour orchestre (op.39 - pub.1955?), too.
(Holmboe more or less wrote 3 concertos for orchestra as usually understood, but none is exactly called concerto for orchestra or the Danish translation thereof- one is Sinfonia concertante (1945), one is "Concerto Giocondo e Severo" (1977), one is "Trae, Messing og Tarm" (wood, brass and gut) (1946) (all will have to go in honorable mention so far as this list is concerned however ). There is a BIS CD coupling all three.)
There's a concerto for orchestra by Icelandic composer Jon Nordal (b.1926) published in the 1970s.

[semloh]

I have:
1939 - Bernstein
1954 - Lutoslawski
1957 - Howard Swanson
1958-61 - Rota (aka Concerto Festivo)

And, Shchedrin wrote 5 between 1963 and 1998

[Dundonnell]

I was being very deliberately precise regarding nomenclature because there are so many works which are, effectively, concertos for orchestra without being so called. The Ibert is a perfect example.

And mention of 'Louisville' recalls that Hilding Rosenberg's' Concerto No.3 is titled 'Louisville'. But then, are Rosenberg's four Concerti really Concertos for orchestra since two are for string orchestra and the other two for three or four solo instruments and orchestra. If we admit them do we admit Holmboe's Chamber Concertos?

I did consider the Nino Rota and was almost certainly unfair to leave it out. Swanson, yes, he joins Baden and Schuller

Surely Leonard Bernstein's Concerto for Orchestra dates from 1989 not 1939??

[semloh]

Surely Leonard Bernstein's Concerto for Orchestra dates from 1989 not 1939??

Well, he was 21 by then and no doubt capable of writing it but yes, of course, 1989. New spectacles required? No, in all honesty, new brain!

[Simon]

I must add :

Mikhail Starokadomsky : Concerto for Orchestra, op.14 (1937), published by Shirmer (I mentioned this work previously in another post, yet Starokadomsky seems truly forgotten these days!).

Simon

[Dundonnell]

I must add :

Mikhail Starokadomsky : Concerto for Orchestra, op.14 (1937), published by Shirmer (I mentioned this work previously in another post, yet Starokadomsky seems truly forgotten these days!).

Simon

Absolutely a new name to me

So he must have been the first Russian composer to write a Concerto for Orchestra, over 20 years before Shchedrin?

[alberto]

Robin Holloway has reached Concerto for Orch. n.5 (premiered at the last Proms).

[Ilja]

If the name's crucial, there's of course also Zelenka's Concerto à 8 Concertanti, which is often referred to as the 'Concerto for Orchestra'. That's from around 1700 so should be the first...

[Dundonnell]

I can also now add Thomas Wilson's Concerto for Orchestra of 1967 because I am listening to it

[Latvian]

A few more candidates! Sorry, I don't have time to check dates to see if they are pre-1981...

Adaskin, M                   
Akses, NK                   
Berkeley, M                 
Danielpour, R               
Einem, G von                 
Estevez, A                   
Freedman, H                 
Gaubert, P                   
Glazachev, G                 
Gregson, E                   
Hajibeyov, S                 
Higdon, J                   
Higdon, J                   
Hoddinott, A                 
Hristoskov, P               
Kalnins, Im                 
Kardos, D                   
Kay, U                       
Kochan, G                   
Kyurkchiyski, K             
Lees, B                     
Lindberg, M                 
McCabe, J                   
Meulemans, A                 
Meyer, EH                   
Miyoshi, A                   
Pakhmutova, A               
Paulus, S                   
Raichev, A                   
Ran, S                       
Roxburgh, E                 
Ryan, J                     
Sagatov, M                   
Schurmann, G                 
Sicilianos, Y               
Slonimsky, S                 
Szervansky, E               
Tabakov, E                   
Tansman, A                   
Tower, J                     
Verbesselt, A               
Volkov, K                   
Wiener, J           
Woestijne, D van de         

[Delicious Manager]

One more:

1954: Alexander Tansman

There are also these AFTER 1981:

1982: John McCabe
1983: Edward Gregson
1986: Alun Hoddinott
1987: Steven Stucky
1988: Rodion Shchedrin No 3 (Old Russian Circus Music)
1989: Rodion Shchedrin No 4 (Khorovody)
1991: Joan Tower
1994: Robin Holloway No 3
1996: Gerard Schurmann
1998: Rodion Shchedrin No 5 (Four Russian Songs)
2002: Jennifer Higdon
2003: Stanisław Skrowaczewski
2005: Robin Holloway No 4
2009: Robin Holloway No 5