Camille Saint-Saens | Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor Op.33 (with score)

Mstislav Rostropovich

Recorded in Henry Wood Hall in London 1977

[rokano]

I played this years ago but my palms still get sweaty listening to this

[davidrehak]

Camille Saint-Saëns:1.a-moll Gordonkaverseny Op.33
1.Allegro non troppo 00:00
2.Allegretto con moto 05:27
3.Tempo primo (Molto allegro) 10:25
Msztyiszlav Rosztropovics-gordonka
Londoni Filharmonikus Zenekar
Vezényel:Carlo Maria Giulini

[ΚωσταςΠαπαδοπουλος-με]

I just managed to pull off this magnificent piece. Thank God I still have my fingers

[rodrigoayarza]

What a beautiful masterpiece. Thanks for the score!

[安妮-lm]

I'm learning this piece rn，I can't wait until I sound this good

[priestboy]

Looked for this after reading Sound of Bread (its a manhwa) I hope this is what the comic was referring to...

[lightning_]

I think my fingers might fall off when I get good at the cello part

[cUser]

Thank you for this.... to advanced cellists: how would I approach you folks if I wanted to learn some Ravel piano sonatas? - film En Couer en Hiver.I’m not a pro, just serious amateur classical pianist..The musical collaboration would be awesome. [ I would pay hourly of course]. How do I approach a cellist? What if I’m only advanced intermediate level to early advanced piano? Thank you.

[thinkandactdaily]

I’m learning this piece at age 11 and it is so hard🥵

[CloudyMcCloud]

Thanks very much for this -- very little respect for "the score" these days. I've always wondered what the hell cellists are trying to do in the two bars at 1:20 -- never sounds convincing. Not surprisingly -- crotchet tied to a triplet (countered by duple rhythms in the orchestra) was bound to beat them. This guy just plays semiquavers (actually, du Pré gets quite close).

Not a bad effort compared to the rest though (I have not ventured into the realm of the Ma -- a man with no sense of rhythm whatsoever). Most painful moment is one of my favourite bits (15:18), starting from bottom C then rising to the stratosphere -- he makes very heavy weather of it and ends up sounding like someone's squeezing his nether regions (demonstrating very well the reason for the supplied "ossia").

Edit: This passage reminds me of the extraordinary F-major episode near the end of Grieg's Piano Concerto (incidentally, featuring a solo cello) ending on the very same top F. The 23-year-old Saint-Saëns composed his A-minor Cello Concerto in 1858; the 24-year-old Grieg his A-minor Piano Concerto ten years later. The influence of Schumann's Piano Concerto is often (rightly) cited in relation to Grieg's; it seems to me this Saint-Saëns work may have played a part too. (Then there's the heavenly F-major slow movement of Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A-major (1879), and it's undoubted influence upon Mahler in his (F-major) Adagietto.)

[JJC]

Please, can you arrange for Tenor Saxophone in C minor?