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The Cello Concerto in D major is Arthur Sullivan's only concerto and was one of his earliest large-scale works. It was written for the Italian cellist Alfredo Piatti and premiered on 24 November 1866 at the Crystal Palace, London, with August Manns conducting. After this, it was performed only a few times. The score was not published, and the manuscript was destroyed in a fire in the 1960s, but the full score was reconstructed by the conductors Sir Charles Mackerras and David Mackie in the 1980s. Their version was premiered and published in 1986. The work is rarely heard in the concert hall, but it has been recorded by EMI Classics and others. There are three movements: Allegro moderato; Andante espressivo; and Finale: molto vivace. ==History== Sullivan embarked on his composing career in the 1860s with a series of ambitious works, interspersed with hymns, parlour songs and other light pieces.〔Jacobs, pp. 35–42〕 At the concert at which the 23-year-old Sullivan's ''''Irish'' Symphony'' was first performed in April 1866, the Italian cellist Alfredo Piatti played the Schumann Cello Concerto.〔 Piatti's playing prompted Sullivan to compose a new concerto for him. The concerto was first performed on 24 November 1866 at the Crystal Palace, London, with August Manns conducting.〔 Reviewing the first performance, ''The Times'' called the work not a concerto, but a concertino, and although the paper looked forward to further performances, it added, "meanwhile we warn Mr. Sullivan that the present hopes of musical England rest in him."〔"Crystal Palace Concerts", ''The Times'', 10 December 1866, p. 9〕 There were few cello concertos in the repertoire in the 1860s. Those by Dvořák (1895), Saint-Saëns (1872 and 1902), Elgar (1919) and Shostakovich (1959 and 1966) were yet to come; concertos from earlier centuries such as those of Vivaldi and Haydn had fallen into neglect. Even the Schumann, composed sixteen years before Sullivan's, was far from a regular repertoire piece at the time. Nonetheless, there were only two more complete performances of Sullivan's concert during his lifetime.〔Higgins, p. 3〕 Piatti played the work in Edinburgh on 17 December 1866, and there was an amateur performance in London in February 1887.〔Jacobs, p. 42〕 The first two movements were played at a Covent Garden promenade concert in October 1873, conducted by the composer, with Walter Pettit as soloist.〔"M. Rivière's Promenade Concerts", ''The Daily News'', 20 October 1873, p. 2〕〔Sands, John. ("Sullivan and the Covent Garden Promenade Concerts" ), The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, 26 December 2009, retrieved 2 October 2015〕 Sullivan's biographer Arthur Jacobs considers it remarkable that the work fell into neglect, surmising that Sullivan or Piatti, or both, decided that it was unsatisfactory, possibly because of the brevity of the first movement.〔Jacobs, Arthur. Programme notes for premiere of reconstructed version, London Symphony Orchestra, April 1986〕 In the early 20th century there was a single performance by the soloist May Mukle with the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra conducted by Dan Godfrey; after that the work was not heard again until the final performance of the original score, given by William Pleeth and the Goldsbrough Orchestra conducted by Charles Mackerras in a concert for the BBC Third Programme, broadcast live on 7 July 1953.〔Mackie, p. 170〕 The concerto was not published, and in May 1964 the manuscript score and orchestral parts were destroyed in a fire at the publishers, Chappell & Co.〔 A copy of the solo part, with indications of some orchestral cues survived, as part of the Pierpoint Morgan Collection.〔 Working from this, from his own memory and from a second cued soloist's copy Mackerras made a reconstruction of the concerto in the 1980s, in close collaboration with the conductor and Sullivan specialist David Mackie. Mackerras filled in what he could not remember of the orchestral parts, "based on his knowledge of Sullivan, and also of Mendelssohn and Schubert (both of whom Sullivan often imitated his the early works)."〔Shepherd, Marc. ("Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in D (1866)" ), Discography of Sir Arthur Sullivan: Orchestral and Band Music, Gilbert and Sullivan Discography, 12 July 2009, retrieved 2 October 2015〕 The reconstructed work was given at a London Symphony Orchestra concert at the Barbican, London, on 20 April 1986. Julian Lloyd Webber was the soloist, and Mackerras conducted.〔 The same performers recorded the work for EMI Classics immediately afterwards.〔Higgins, back cover〕 The work was recorded again in 1999 by Martin Ostertag with the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Klaus Arp,〔("Cellokonzerte" ), WorldCat, retrieved 2 October 2015〕 and in 2000 by Paul Watkins with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Mackerras.〔("Macbeth overture; Cello concerto; Te Deum (1872)" ), WorldCat, retrieved 2 October 2015〕 The reconstructed score was published by Josef Weinberger, London, in 1986.〔("Sullivan: Concerto for violoncello & orchestra"" ), WorldCat, retrieved 2 October 2015〕 A piano reduction by Mackie was published at the same time.〔Mackie, p. 173〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cello Concerto (Sullivan)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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