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The concerto, 1721 to 1959
Soloist and orchestra across two and a half centuries, from Bach's harpsichord to Rostropovich's cello.
Bach → Vivaldi → Mozart → Beethoven → Mendelssohn → Tchaikovsky → Dvořák → Rachmaninoff → Ravel → Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107
This guide follows Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107 (1959) in four parts: Allegretto (sonata form), Moderato (sonata form), Cadenza and Allegro con moto (sonata form).
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Follow all 27 sections as they play
- I
- II
- III
- IV
The cello states the obsessive, -like four-note at the start, a figure that resembles music Shostakovich wrote for the 1948 film The Young Guard, and timpani and contrabassoon darken the mood. The first and are each developed in turn in the . The brings back the first and then the second, and the follows.
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III17:32–22:27
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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