Antonín Dvorák (1841 - 1904)
Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104
Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85

The Cello Concertos of the Bohemian composer Antonín Dvorák and the English composer Sir Edward Elgar represent the summit of romantic achievement in the form. The concertante cello found a place in later Baroque repertoire, with solo cello concertos by Vivaldi, Tartini and others, leading to the classical concertos of composers in Mannheim, Vienna and Berlin and the concertos of Haydn and Boccherini. It was not until 1850 that the cello concerto received the attention of major romantic composers, with Robert Schumann's Cello Concerto of that year. Brahms paired the instrument with the violin in his Double Concerto of 1887, but it was Dvorák who in 1895 first provided a concerto in which the solo cello forms an essential part of a full symphonic texture.

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