Andrzej Bauer

The deep resonant and eloquent sound of the cello is able to express the widest to passionately singing. The first cello concertos were written in the Baroque, when the instrument shed its modest role as part of the continuo setting. During the Classical and Romantic era surprisingly concertos were written, while the 20th century yielded some of the greatest masterworks in the genre. The set contains concertos by Vivaldi, Platti, Porpora, Monn, C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, Boccherini, Leo, Schumann, Saint-Saens, Dvorak, Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Finzi, Lalo, Bruch, Faure, Bloch, Ginastera, Kabalevsky, Khachaturian, Lutoslawski.