Gerald Raphael Finzi - Concerto for cello and orchestr, Op.40

 

Gerald Raphael Finzi

 

(14 July 1901 – 27 September 1956) was a British composer.

Finzi is best known as a choral composer, but also wrote in other genres.

Large-scale compositions by Finzi include the cantata Dies natalis for solo voice and

string orchestra, and his concertos for cello and clarinet.

 

Concerto for cello and orchestr, Op.40

 

The Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 40, was composed by Gerald Finzi in 1955.

The piece is in three movements:

• I. Allegro moderato
• II. Andante quieto
• III. Rondo: Adagio - Allegro giocoso

The concerto was written as the result of a request by John Barbirolli, and first performed by Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra, with Christopher Bunting as the soloist at the Cheltenham Music Festival on 19 July 1955.

Part of the second movement was used as the signature tune for the BBC Radio 2003 of adaptation of C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers.

 

 

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