Unrecorded British Cello Concertos

[Dundonnell]

Perhaps oddly enough British Cello Concertos have fared better on disc than concertos for other instruments.

The Malcolm Arnold, Havergal Brian and Joseph Holbrooke have now joined the Bax, Bliss, Britten (Cello Symphony), Delius, Elgar, Finzi, Leighton, George Lloyd,
James Macmillan, David Matthews(Concerto in Azzuro), Moeran, Rawsthorne, Cyril Scott, Stanford, Bernard Stevens, Sullivan, Tovey, Walton and Hugh Wood on disc.

Unrecorded British Cello Concertos would include:

Sir Lennox Berkeley:             composed in 1939, apparently forgotten by the composer and not given a first performance until 1982.
                                                      (available to download on this forum)
Arnold Cooke:                      composed in 1972/73 (available to download on this forum)
John Foulds:                        composed in 1911 (available to download on this forum)
Daniel Jones:                      composed in 1986 (available to download on this forum)
John McCabe:                     'Songline' composed in 2007 (available to download from this forum)
Robert Simpson:                  composed in 1991 (available to download from this forum)

Dutton may well get round to recording the Foulds. It is however vey strange that the Simpson has not yet been recorded by Raphael Wallfisch who commissioned and gave the first performance of the work.

There are of course other works, not titled as concertos, for cello and orchestra by British composers on disc, including recent releases of works by York Bowen and Alan Bush. We could certainly do with a new version of the Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes.

Who have I missed?

[vandermolen]

Isn't there a fragment of Vaughan Williams's incomplete Cello Concerto going to be released?

[Dundonnell]

Isn't there a fragment of Vaughan Williams's incomplete Cello Concerto going to be released?

Is there?

[britishcomposer]

Isn't there a fragment of Vaughan Williams's incomplete Cello Concerto going to be released?

Is there?

David Matthews based his "Dark Pastoral" on fragments of RVW's Cello Concerto. It was premiered at last year's Proms with Steven Isserlis. Perhaps you meant this?

[Dundonnell]

Added the Daniel Jones Cello Concerto to the list above.

We are immensely fortunate that each of the concertos on the list can be obtained here

[Dundonnell]

Added the Daniel Jones Cello Concerto to the list above.

We are immensely fortunate that each of the concertos on the list can be obtained here

Last sentence was a hostage to fortune

John McCabe's Cello Concerto 'Songline'(2007) was first performed in Manchester in 2008 by Truls Mork with the Halle Orchestra under Elder.

[Dundonnell]

Added the Daniel Jones Cello Concerto to the list above.

We are immensely fortunate that each of the concertos on the list can be obtained here

Last sentence was a hostage to fortune

John McCabe's Cello Concerto 'Songline'(2007) was first performed in Manchester in 2008 by Truls Mork with the Halle Orchestra under Elder.

....and of course what then happens?.....It duly appears

Many thanks to britishcomposer

List amended again

[Greg K]

Besides McCabe's "Songlines", there are never commercially recorded (to my knowledge) Cello Concertos by Denis ApIvor, Francis Routh, & Nigel Osborne.  Broadcast recordings, however,
exist for each of these works.

[Dundonnell]

Besides McCabe's "Songlines", there are never commercially recorded (to my knowledge) Cello Concertos by Denis ApIvor, Francis Routh, & Nigel Osborne.  Broadcast recordings, however,
exist for each of these works.

I am planning to make the Francis Routh Cello Concerto available here for download

[eschiss1]

According to the Foulds Facebook page, Dutton has recorded the Foulds concerto already, with Wallfisch, this past summer. If this is true, perhaps they'll release it in the next few months... (yes, same soloist, but presumably they haven't just gone and resurrected the 1988 broadcast - it didn't sound/read/look that way. ... well, one will see )

[albion]

Thank Eric - this is great news if true - coupled with more Foulds or more cello repertoire, I wonder.......

the Foulds Facebook page

I've just poked Cipriani Potter.

[eschiss1]

have at. Join our Rufinatscha page while about, such as it is.

[albion]

I've just poked Cipriani Potter.

He was a bit crumbly.

[JimL]

Halloween must be coming soon...

[Alan Howe]

But not soon enough. Meanwhile, back at the thread...