A History of the Cello in WA - Tables


A HISTORY OF THE CELLO
IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Ian Abbott



Performance of concerti for
cello and orchestra
in Perth
by the
Western Australian Symphony Orchestra,
WASO
1939-2013.


WASO Cello Concerti Performances

By Decade (N.B. data 1937-2013 only)

WASO Cello Concerti

Totals by Concerto (N.B. starting from top - clockwise)

Table 1


Copyright of this paper is held by the Royal Western Australian Historical Society. This article is republished here with the permission of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society. The article was originally published in Early Days (Journal of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society) 14: 434-454 (2014).


Table 1 - Online Version - Notes

  1. In Order of popularity – i.e. most often performed by the WASO

  2. Minor reformatting has been done from the original to suit online access
    (i.e. to allow for the information to be more easily read on mobile phones)


E Elgar 1857-1934 (E minor, Op. 85)

Composed : 1918-19 | Premièred : 1919
Australian première : 1923
WA première : 1923*
Soloist (year)

Edmund Kurtz (1958), Kurt Hess (1979), Colin Carr (1988), Michael Goldschlager (1993), Lynn Harrell (1998), Ralph Kirschbaum (2002), Anne Gastinel (2006), Natalie Clein (2008), Sol Gabbata (2011)


C Saint-Saëns 1835-1921 (A minor, No. 1, Op. 33)

Composed : 1872 | Premièred : 1873
Australian première : 1895
WA première : 1922*
Soloist (year)

Wendy Tyler (1951), John Kennedy (1951), Edmund Kurtz (1958), Rohan da Saram (1968), André Navarra (1975), Catherine Hewgill (1992), Li-Wei Qin (2000), Alban Gerhardt (2011)


P Tchaikovsky 1840-93 (Variations on a Rococo theme, Op. 33)

Composed : 1876 | Premièred : 1877
Australian première : 1920
WA première : 1934*
Soloist (year)

John Kennedy (1961), Paul Tortelier (1980), Georg Pedersen (1984), Catherine Hewgill (1985), Frans Helmerson (1990), Pietwer Wispelwey (1995), Alisa Weilerstein (2001), Nicolas Altstaedt (2012)


A Dvořák 1841-1904 (B minor, Op. 104)

Composed : 1894-95 | Premièred : 1896
Australian première : 1905
WA première : 1964
Soloist (year)

Edmund Kurtz (1964), André Navarra (1983), Robert Cohen (1987), Raphael Wallfisch (1992), David Pereira (1995), Boris Pergamenshikov (1999), Jian Wang (2005), Sol Gabetta (2013)


R Schumann 1810-56 (A minor, Op. 129)

Composed : 1850 (published 1854)
Premièred : 1860
WA première : 1967
Soloist (year)

Nelson Cooke (1967), Valter Despalj (1981), Mario Brunello (1997), Li-Wei Qin (2002), Jian Wang (2010), Alban Gerhardt (2013)


J Haydn 1732-1809 (D, No. 2)

Composed : 1783
Australian première : 1923
WA première : 1923*
Soloist (year)

Paul Tortelier (1984), Carter Brey (1996), Pei-Jee Ng (2003), Jian Wang (2008), Pieter Wispelwey (2013)


D Shostakovitch 1906-75 (No. 1, op. 107)

Composed : 1959 | Premièred : 1959
Australian première : 1960
WA première : 1986
Soloist (year)

Valter Despalj (1986), Frans Helmerson (1992), Alexander Ivashkin (1996), Truls Mørk (2000), Alisa Weilerstein (2011)


L Boccherini 1743-1805 (Bb)

Composed : ?1771
WA première : 1939
Soloist (year)

Edmund Kurtz (1939), Lauri Kennedy (1944), Michael Goldschlager (1990)


R Strauss 1864-1949 (Don Quixote, Op. 35)

Composed : 1897 | Premièred : 1898
Australian première : 1939
WA première : 1987
Soloist (year)

Antonio Meneses (1987), Ralph Kirschbaum (1993)


J Haydn (C)

Composed : ?1761-65
Premièred : 1961
WA première : 1989
Soloist (year)

Ofra Harnoy (1989), Tanya Tetzlaff (1997)


M Bruch 1838-1920 (Kol Nidrei, Op. 47)

Composed : 1881
Australian première : 1895
WA première : 1905*
Soloist (year)

John Kennedy (1961), Sol Gabetta (2011)


(The following concerti have only been performed once by the WASO - in order of WASO year of performance)

G Goltermann 1824-98

Australian première : ?1908
WA première : 1901*
WASO : Wendy Tyler (1948)

DB Kabalevsky 1904-87 (G minor, Op. 49)

Composed : 1948-49
Australian & WA première : 1964
WASO : Edmund Kurtz (1964)

A Khachaturian 1903-78 (Concerto-Rhapsody)

Composed : 1963
WA première : 1966
WASO : Daniel Shafran (1966)

E Lalo 1823-92 (D minor)

Composed : 1877
Australian première : 1902
WA première : 1923*
WASO : Rohan de Saram (1968)

CPE Bach 1714-88 (A)

Composed : 1753
Australian première : 1936
WA première : 1975
WASO : André Navarra (1975)

S Barber 1910-81

Composed : 1945 | Premièred : 1946
WA première : 1977
WASO : Phillip Green (1977)

N Osborne 1948-

Composed : 1977
WA première : 1986
WASO : Florian Kitt (1986)

B Martinů 1890-1959 (Concertino, H143)

Composed : 1924
WA première : 1989
WASO : Ofra Harnoy (1989)

E Bloch 1880-1959 (Rhapsody, Schelomo)

Composed : 1916 | Premièred : 1917
Australian première : 1947
WA première : 1991
WASO : Colin Carr (1991)

C Saint-Saëns (No. 2, Op. 119)

Composed : 1902 | Premièred : 1902
WA première : 1998
WASO : Steven Isserlis (1998)

P Vasks 1946-

Composed : 1993-94
Australian & WA première : 2001
WASO : David Geringas (2001)

L Beethoven 1770-1827 (Triple Concerto, Op. 56)

Composed : 1804-07 | Premièred : 1808
Australian première : 1919
WA première : 2003
WASO : Rod McGrath (2003)

S Prokofiev 1891-1953 (Symphony-Concerto, E minor, Op. 125)

Composed : 1952 | Premièred : 1954
WA première : 2007
WASO : Gautier Capuçon (2007)

D Shostakovitch (No. 2, Op. 126)

Composed : 1966 | Premièred : 1966
WA première : 2007
WASO : Han-Na Chang (2007)

EW Korngold 1897-1957 (C, Op. 37)

Composed : 1946
WA première : 2010
WASO : Rod McGrath (2010)

A Vivaldi (with violin)

WASO : Amanda Forsyth (2013)



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