SPECIAL
REPERTORY (WORKS PREMIERED
OR COMMISSIONED BY MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH)
COMPOSER
TITLE
Works
for cello & orchestra (premiered):
1.
A.Babadzhanyan
Concerto
2.
G.Banschikov
Concerto No.4
3.
Luciano Berio
Il ritorno degli Snovidenia
4.
Leonard Bernstein
Three Meditations*
5.
Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky
Three Concert Pieces for Cello and Orchestra*
6.
Arthur Bliss
Concerto*
7.
Benjamin Britten
Symphony for Cello and Orchestra*
8.
Daniel-Lesur
Concerto for Cello
9.
Henri Dutillieux
Tout un Monde Lointain
10. Lukas Foss
Concerto*
11. E. Golubyev
Concerto
12. Lopez Graca
Concerto da Camera
14. Cristobal. Halffter
Concerto
15. Alun Hodinott
Concerto*
16. Andre Jolivet
Concerto No.2*
17. Aram Kachaturian
Kontsert-rapsodiya*
18. Giya Kancheli
After the Cry, for Cello Solo*
19. Alexander Knaifel
Chapter 8 for Cathedral, 4 Choruses,
and Solo Cello
20. Lev Knipper
Concerto
21. T. Khrennikov
Concerto No.1
22. Marcel Landowski
Un Enfant apelle..., Concerto
for Soprano, Cello and Orchestra
23. Marcel Landowski
Le Prison, Poem for Soprano, Cello
and Orchestra
24. Y. Levitin
Concertino
25. Witold Lutoslawski
Concerto*
26. James MacMillan
Cello Concerto
27. David Matthews
Romanza, Op.49
28. Olivier Messiaen
Violoncello part in oratorio "Transfiguration"
29. Olivier Messiaen
Concerto a Quatre et Orchestre
30. Norbert Moret
Two Love Poems for Soprano, Cello and
Orchestra
31. Virgilio Mortari
Concerto
32. N. Nabokov
Theme with Variations for Cello and Orchestra
33. Arne Nordheim
Tenebrae*
34. Andrez Panufnik
Concerto
35. Arvo Part
Concerto*
36. Krzystof Penderecki
Concerto No.2*
37. N. Peyko
Bashkiri Melodies for Cello and Orchestra
38. Ljubomir Pipkov
Concerto Symphony
39. Walter Piston.
Variations for Cello and Orchestra
40. Gavriil Popov
Symphonic Aria for Cello and Orchestra
41. Sergei Prokokiev
Symphony-Concerto
42. Sergei Prokokiev
Cello Concerto
43. Henri Sauguet
Melodie Concertante
44. Robert Saxton
Cello Concerto*
45. Alfred Schnittke
Concerto No.2*
46. Alfred Schnittke
Concerto for Three (Violin, Viola, Violoncello)*
47. Rodion Shchedrin
Cello Concerto*
48. Dmitri Shostakovich
Concerto No.1*
49. Dmitri Shostakovich
Concerto No.2*
50. Boris Tchaikovsky
Concerto
51. Augusta Read Thomas
Chanson for Cello and Orchestra*
52. V. Vlasov
Concerto
53. V. Vlasov
Improvisation
54. M. Weinberg
Concerto
55. Yuzotoyama
Concerto
Pieces
for solo cello & piano (premiered):
1.
Georges Auric
Imaginees
for Cello and Piano*
2.
Benjamin Britten
Sonata*
3.
Benjamin Britten
Suite No.1
for Solo Cello*
4.
Benjamin Britten
Suite No.2
for Solo Cello*
5.
Benjamin Britten
Suite No.3
for Solo Cello*
6.
Claude Debussy
Minuet for
Cello and Piano
7.
G. Gamberg
Theme with
Variations for Cello and Piano
8.
M. Goldstein
Minuet
9.
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Sonata*
10. Karen Kachaturian
Sonata*
11. Y. Levitin
Sonata
12. Nikolai
Miaskovsky
Sonata No.2*
13. Michel
Michelet
Sonata
14. E. Mirzoyan
Sonata
15. Maurice
Ohana
Syrtes pour
Cello et Piano
16. Claude
Pascal
Sonata
17. Sergei
Prokokiev
Sonata
18. N. Rakov
Nine Pieces
for Violoncello and Piano
19. Y. Shaporin
Five Pieces
for Violoncello and Piano
20. V. Shebalin
Sonata
21. Dmitri
Shostakovich
Poems ofAlexander
Blok (Song Cycle, cello part)
22. Sergei
Taneyev
Sonata
23. Boris Tchaikovsky
Suite Cello
Solo
24. Moyssey Vaynberg
Sonata No.2 for Cello and Piano*
25. Moyssey Vaynberg
Sonata for Cello Solo*
26. Sir William
Walton
Passacaglia
for Cello Solo*
27. M. Weinberg
Sonata No.2
for Cello Solo
28. M. Weinberg
Sonata No.3
for Cello Solo
29. Jean Wiener
Sonata
Works
premiered as conductor:
1.
Stephen Albert
RiverRun
2.
Leonard Bernstein
Slava! (A political
overture)*
3.
Stephen Douglas Burton
The Pied Piper,
A Concert Overture
4.
Jacob Druckman
Vox Humana
5.
Henri Dutilleux
Timbres, espace,
mouvement*
6.
Alberto Ginastera
Glosses on
Themes of Pau Casals, Op.46 (Orchestral Version)
7.
Alberto Ginastera
Cello Concerto
No.1 (Revised Version)
8.
Morton Gould
String Music*
9.
Alan Hovhaness
Symphony for
Solo Flute and Orchestra
10. Ezra Lederman
Symphony No.5
("Isaiah")
11. Marcel
Landowski
The Clock,
Symphonic Poem
12. Witold
Lutowslaski
Novelette*
13. Andreas
Makris
Chromatokinesis
(Revised Version)
14. Andreas
Makris
Fanfare Alexander
15. Andreas
Makris
Fourth of July
March
16. Andreas
Makris
Violin Concerto
17. Andreas
Makris
Variations
and Song for Orchestra
18. Andreas
Makris
Violin Concerto
19. Henry Mancini
Salute to the
Services
20. Peter Mennin
Symphony No.9
(Sinfonia Capriccioso)
21. Jon Nordal
Choralis
22. Krzysztof
Penderecki
Polish Requiem
23. Aulis Saalinen
Shadows
24. Aulis Saalinen
Symphony No.5
(Washington Mosaics)
25. Rodion
Shchedrin
Lolita (after
nabokov) (Stockholm Opera)
26. Rodion Shchedrin
Stykhira*
27. Alfred
Schnittke
Life with an
Idiot (Netherlands Opera)
28. Alfred
Schnittke
Gesualdo (Vienna
State Opera)
29.Gunther
Schuller
Bassoon Concerto
30. Gunther
Schuller
Contrabassoon
Concerto
31. Vladimir Tarnopolsky
Ah, ces Russes!
32. Augusta
Read Thomas
Ancient Chimes*
33. Augusta Read Thomas
Air and Angels
34. Augusta Read Thomas
Ligeia (a one-act opera)
35. Sir William Walton
Prologo e Fantasia
Compositions
commissioned on the occasion of Paul Sacher's 70th birthday:
1.
Conrad Beck
Three
epigrams for Violoncello Solo
2.
Luciano Berio
Le mots
sont alles... for Violoncello Solo*
3.
Benjamin Britten
Theme "SACHER"
for Cello Solo*
4.
Henri Dutilleux
Hommage
a Paul Sacher pour Violoncello Solo*
5.
Wolgang Fortner
Theme and Variations
for Violoncello Solo
6.
Alberto Ginastera
Hommage
a Paul Sacher: Punena No.2 Op. 45 for Cello Solo*
7.
Cristobal Halffter
Variations
on the Theme "SACHER" for Cello Solo
8.
Heinz Holliger
Chaconne for
Violoncello Solo*
9.
Klaus Huber
Transposition
ad infinitum for virtuoso Solo Cello
10. Witold
Lutoslawski
Sacher Variations
for Violoncelo Solo
* Indicates work dedicated to Rostropovich
Background
music clip is from Ludwig von Beethoven, Sonata No. 2 in G
minor, Op. 5 No.2, for Cello and Piano, Mstislav Rostropovich
(cello), Sviatoslav Richter (piano) (1963, 1967); Beethoven:
Complete Music for Cello and Piano; Philips D206206 (442
566-2), Philips Classics Productions 1994.
