Arnold Schönberg
Cello Concerto after Georg Monn
Allegro moderato 00:00
Andante, alla Marcia 06:55
Tempo di Minuetto 11:48
Fred Sherry, cello
Philharmonia Orchestra
Robert Craft, conductor
Painting: Frank Auerbach, Head of ll, 1984-85
The Cello Concerto, ‘freely adapted’ by Schönberg from Georg Monn’s 1746 concerto for clavicembalo in D major, was composed between November 1932 and January 1933. The piece is dedicated to Pablo Casals, to whom Schönberg offered the first performance. [...] The compo