Cello Concerto (Tchaikovsky)

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Unfinished works have always fascinated composers, music theorists, and historians; Tchaikovsky's projected Cello Concerto is no different. After the composer's death, the sketches to the Concerto were found among the sketches to the Pathetique Symphony. The 60-bar piano score was only a part of a cello concerto promised to Julius Poplavskii and Anatoli Brandukov by Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky. The Concerto lay untouched until 2006, when a Ukrainian composer and cellist Yuriy Leonovich and a Tchaikovsky researcher Brett Langston (co-author of The Tchaikovsky Handbook) completed the work.

[edit] Movements

Allegro maestoso (B Minor) - Sonata form: 60-bar sketch is used as the first theme. Rest of the movement, including the second theme, is all new.
Andante (G Major) - Ternary form: Sketch of the slow movement from Piano Concerto No.3, in E flat Major.
Allegro vivo-Meno mosso-Presto (B Minor) - Rondo form: Russian folk song "Our Wine Cellar" is used as a first theme, and an 8-bar sketch to the unfinished Cello Sonata as the second theme.