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 decided to get the best out of this fantastic material. To do that my father (Wolfram Wagner, composer, professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna) and I spent hundreds of hours analyzing the piece and afterwards making our own version. Just through cuts, we made the overall structure clearer, kept all the strong places and brought it to a length of 34 minutes. Afterwards, I transposed it to D-Major so the registers would fit ideally to the strengths of the double bass.
This is the live recording of the world premiere of this arrangement at the KKL Luzern, June 2023.
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[@ositoCastro]

Beautiful, great music, Thanks for the arrangement

[@billmcconville9980]

Splendid collaboration between Dvorak and the Wagners father and son. Beautifully played.

[@sofijapalurovic989]

Congratulations!! This is so beautiful ❤

[@basspoem]

A brilliant re-imagining of the 1865 A Major concerto 'no.1' for cello and piano, so very different from the original that I would say it is a Wagner father/son concerto using some material by Dvorak. It's wonderfully written for bass of course, and the chamber orchestra writing is superbly clear. Congratulations!

[@fannygarcia5599]

Awesome!!!

[@uli9084]

I did not know Dvorak wrote a concerto for double bass, I thought there were only transcriptions of the famous cello concerto, beautiful and thx for upload!

[@patrickclark223]

Dvorak didn't write it for bass. This is an arrangement from that piece originally for cello made accessible for Bass.

[@uli9084]

@@patrickclark223 oke thx

[@JCRVEmusic]

❤

[@bernard-philippevallino4965]

prise de son remarquable, en plus du reste évidemment...

[@mmmygc]

Wow! Do you have an arrangement for cello in the original key?

[@betterbaggage]

😆