Antonin Dvorak: Concerto in D-Major for Double Bass and Orchestra, Arr. Dominik and Wolfram Wagner

Dominik Wagner: double bass Howard Griffiths: conductor Camerata Schweiz: orchestra Everybody knows Dvorak’s famous b-minor cello concerto but barely anyone knows his a-major cello concerto. He wrote this piece in 1865, the same year as his first two symphonies. Unfortunately, the back then 24 years old Dvorak managed to lose the sheet music of all three pieces. Shortly after finishing the first version of the cello concerto (unorchestrated, only with the piano part, not structured well and 55 minutes long), an orchestra colleague took the sheet music to Germany where he had found a job. Dvorak sent his first symphony to a composing competition in Leipzig. He never heard back from them and never got the score sent back. He only got to see the second Symphony again around 20 years after writing it. He immediately revised it (like he did with a lot of his early works) and then got it premiered. This first cello concerto had been on my mind for about 10 years now. In 2021 I finally de