Cello Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns)

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Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 119, is written in two movements, like his Fourth Piano Concerto. It was composed for a Dutch Cellist, Joseph Hollmann, in 1902. The Second Concerto is much more virtuosic than the First, but does not lack thematic inventiveness and harmonic intricacy.

[edit] Music

1. Allegro moderato e maestoso
2. Andante sostenuto

The first movement is in sonata form. The second part is a prayer, in E-flat major in simple ternary form. The first movement ends with a scale in artificial harmonics, like the scale in the First Cello Concerto. The second movement is a moto perpetuo in G minor. It ends abruptly in a cadenza, followed by a major-key recapitulation of the first movement, and a coda.

[edit] Recordings

• Lynn Harrell (Cello) and Riccardo Chailly (Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra)
• Steven Isserlis (Cello) and Christoph Eschenbach (North German Radio Symphony Orchestra)
• Maria Kliegel (Cello) and Jean-François Monnard (Bournemouth Sinfonietta)
• Torleif Thedéen (Cello) and Jean-Jacques Kantorow (Tapiola Sinfonietta)
• Laszlo Varga (Cello) and Siegfried Landau (Westphalian Symphony Orchestra)
• Christine Walevska (Cello) and Eliahu Inbal (Orchestra National de Monte-Carlo)
• Jamie Walton (Cello) and Alex Briger (Philharmonia Orchestra)

v • d • e Concertos by Camille Saint-Saëns Piano concertos No. 1 in D major, Op. 17 · No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 · No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 29 · No. 4 in C minor, Op. 44 · No. 5 in F major, Op. 103 (L'Egyptien) Violin concertos No. 1 in A major, Op. 20 · No. 2 in C major, Op. 58 · No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 Cello concertos No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 · No. 2 in D minor, Op. 119 Other works for violin and orchestra Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28 · Havanaise, Op. 83 List of compositions by Camille Saint-Saëns