Saint-Saens C. Concerto No 1 A minor for violoncello and orchestra. Piano score and part

The second half of the 19th century became the true "golden age" of the world cello performing art. It was exactly that time, when cello repertoire was enriched with the masterpieces as the concertos by R. Schumann and E. Lalo, variations by P. I. Tchaikovsky and most brilliantly crowned with the concerto by Dvorjand the Concerto for violin and cello by J. Brahms. The Concerto A minor for violoncello and orchestra by Camille Saint-Saens is ranked among these creams of world cello crops, having drawn musicians by its novelty and simultaneously miraculous balanced construction, fascinating, nearly transcendental virtuosity passing the verge of piano's abilities and vivid orchestration, so as the anguishing ampleness of romantic music.

The Concerto shall no doubt go on hitting marks on the field of world music treasury until there exists the instrument called violoncello.