Myaskovsky was also Soviet Russia's most distinguished teacher of composition, with notable pupils including Khachaturian and Kabalevsky.
Composer Biography
Camille Saint-Saëns, the composer of the Cello Concerto No. 1, had a long career, playing as a child pianist soon after Queen Victoria's accession and living to write music for an early French silent film.
Compositional Technique
Myaskovsky's Cello Concerto uses a 19th-century type of concerto orchestra, identical to the orchestra used in Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1.
Recording & Production
These concertos were recorded simultaneously in both MONO and STEREO in 1956 at Studio No.1, Abbey Road, London.
Composer Biography
In 1873, Saint-Saëns was more famous as an organist at the church of the Madeleine in Paris and as a pianist than as a composer.
Composer Biography
Nikolai Myaskovsky, the composer of the Cello Concerto, is known as the most prolific modern composer of symphonies, having written 27.
Compositional Technique
Saint-Saëns's Cello Concerto No. 1 is welded into a single continuous movement, following the example of Franz Liszt's symphonic poems.
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