This is a list of musical compositions for cello and orchestra ordered by their authors' surnames.
Cello concertos
A Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen Cello Concerto (1996)
Cello Concerto (1895) Carl Friedrich Abel Cello Concerto in B-flat Cello Concerto in C Hans Abrahamsen Lied in Fall Thomas Adès Lieux retrouvés (2016) Vasif Adigozalov Cello Concerto (1990) Samuel Adler (b. 1928) Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1995) Jean-Louis Agobet Cello Concerto (2009) Vladimir Agopov Cello Concerto (1987) Miguel del Águila (b. 1957) Concierto en Tango for Cello and Orchestra (2014) Kalevi Aho Cello Concerto No. 1 (1983–84) Cello Concerto No. 2 (2013)
Cello Concerto (1990) Yasushi Akutagawa Concerto ostinato for cello and orchestra (1969)
Eugen d'Albert Cello Concerto in C, Op. 20 (1899) Stephen Albert Cello Concerto (1990) Redzhep Allayarov Cello Concerto (1985) Pedro Humberto Allende Saron Cello Concerto (1915) Ferid Alnar Cello Concerto (1943) Franghiz Ali-Zadeh Concerto for cello and orchestra (2000–2001) André Amellér Concerto for cello and orchestra (1946), version for chamber orchestra (1963) Gilbert Amy Cello Concerto (1999–2000) Tanya Anisimova Adonai for Solo Cello and String Orchestra (2006) Quintet Concerto for Solo Cello and String Quintet (2005) Denis ApIvor Cello Concerto (1977) Johann Gottfried Arnold Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Cello Concerto No. 2 in G Cello Concerto No. 3 in F Cello Concerto No. 4 in E-flat Cello Concerto No. 5 in D Malcolm Arnold Cello Concerto Alexander Arutiunian Concertino for cello and orchestra (1971) Poem for cello and orchestra (1974) Kurt Atterberg Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 21 (1922) Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber Air varié for cello and orchestra (1807) 5 Concertos for Cello () Lera Auerbach Diary of a Madman: Cello Concerto )2021) Pedro António Avondano Cello Concerto in G () Vaja Azarashvili Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra
B Arno Babajanian Cello Concerto (1962) Grażyna Bacewicz Cello Concerto No. 1 (1951) Cello Concerto No. 2 (1963) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Cello Concerto in A minor (1750) Cello Concerto in B-flat major (1751) Cello Concerto in A major (1753) Sven-Erik Bäck Cello Concerto (1966) Nicolas Bacri Cello Concerto (1987) Henk Badings Cello Concerto No. 1 (1930) Cello Concerto No. 2 (1939) David N. Baker Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra (1975) (Commissioned by Janos Starker) Concerto for Cello and Jazz Band (1987) (Commissioned by Ed Laut) Leonardo Balada Cello Concerto No. 1 (1962) Cello Concerto No. 2 New Orleans (2001) Christopher Ball Cello Concerto No. 1 Cello Concerto No. 2 Alexander Baltin Cello Concerto (1971) Gennady Banshchikov Cello Concerto No. 1 (1962) Cello Concerto No. 2 (1964) Cello Concerto No. 3 (1965) Cello Concerto No. 4 for cello and 11 instruments Duodeciment (1966) Granville Bantock Sapphic Poem for cello and orchestra (1909) George Barati Cello Concerto (1953) Samuel Barber Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 22 (1945) Béla Bartók Cello Concerto (arrangement of the Viola Concerto by Tibor Serly – 1945) Rhapsody 1
Cello Concerto (1972) Veniamin Basner Cello Concerto (1989) Stanley Bate Cello Concerto (1953) Mason Bates Cello Concerto (2014) Carola Bauckholt Brunnen (2013) Jerzy Bauer Cello Concerto No. 1 (1985) Cello Concerto No. 2 (2013) Arnold Bax Cello Concerto in G minor (1932) Sally Beamish Cello Concerto No. 1: River (1997) Suite for cello and orchestra (after C. Debussy) The Song Gatherer: Cello Concerto no. 2 Stephen W. Beatty Five Cello Concertos (2014-6) Louis-Noël Belaubre Concerto for cello and strings after Boccherini's sonata in C Gustaf Bengtsson Cello Concerto (1932) Paul Ben-Haim Concerto Richard Rodney Bennett Sonnets to Orpheus (1978–79) Pascal Bentoiu Cello Concerto (1989) Niels Viggo Bentzon Cello Concerto No. 1 (1956) Cello Concerto No. 2 (1974) Cello Concerto No. 3 (1982) Esteban Benzecry Concertino for cello and strings (1992) Cello Concerto (2013) Wilhelm Georg Berger Cello Concerto (1967) Erik Bergman Cello Concerto Concerto for Cello and String Orchestra Op. 141 (1998) Luciano Berio Ritorno degli snovidenia (The Return of Dreams 1977) Michael Berkeley Cello Concerto (1983) Leonard Bernstein Three Meditations from Mass for cello and orchestra (1977) Charles Roland Berry Cello Concerto (published 2008) Boris Blacher Cello Concerto (1964) () David Blake Cello Concerto (1992) Howard Blake Diversions for cello and orchestra (1985) Marc Bleuse Cello Concerto (1993) Arthur Bliss Cello Concerto F 107 (1970) Ernest Bloch Schelomo, Rhapsodie Hébraïque for cello solo and large orchestra (1916) Voice in the Wilderness (1936) Luigi Boccherini Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, G. 477 Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, G. 479 Cello Concerto No. 3 in G major, G. 480 Cello Concerto No. 4 in C major, G. 481 Cello Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, G. 474 Cello Concerto No. 6 in A major, G 475 Cello Concerto No. 7 in D major, G. 476 Cello Concerto No. 8 in D major, G. 478 Cello Concerto No. 9 in B-flat major, G. 482 Cello Concerto in B-flat major (arr. F. Grutzmacher) Cello Concerto No. 10 in D major, G. 483 Cello Concerto No. 11 in C major, G. 573 Cello Concerto No. 12 in E-flat major Léon Boëllmann Variations Symphoniques, Op. 23 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier Cello Concerto Op. 26, No. 6 (published 1729) Max Bohrer Cello Concerto No. 1 () Nimrod Borenstein Concerto for violoncello and string orchestra opus 56b (2012) Cello concerto No. 2 opus 77 (2017) Lilcho Borisov Cello Concerto (1984) Pavel Bořkovec Cello Concerto (1952) Sergei Bortkiewicz Cello Concerto, Op. 20 (1915) Three Pieces for cello and orchestra, Op. 25A: (1922) Daniel Börtz Concerto for cello and strings (1980) Henriëtte Bosmans Cello Concerto No. 1 (1922) Poème voor violoncel en orkest (1923)Cello Concertos from the Netherlands, Brilliant Classics 97001 (2025) Cello Concerto No. 2 (1924) Poème (1926)
Cello Concerto No. 1 (1882) Hendrik Bouman Cello Concerto in A minor for cello and strings (2005)() York Bowen Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 74 () George Frederick Boyle Cello Concerto (1917) Eugène Bozza Cello Concerto (1947) Joly Braga Santos Cello Concerto (1987) Charlotte Bray Falling in the Fire (2015) Thérèse Brenet Le Retour De Quetzalcoatl, symphonic poem for cello and orchestra (1995) Concerto for cello and small orchestra (2010) Jean-Baptiste Bréval Cello Concerto No. 1, A, Op. 14 (1784) Cello Concerto No. 2, D, Op. 17 (1784) Cello Concerto No. 3, F, Op. 20 (1785) Cello Concerto No. 4, C, Op. 22 (1786) Cello Concerto No. 5, Op. 24 (1786) Cello Concerto No. 6, C, Op. 26 (1786) Havergal Brian Cello Concerto in E-flat (1964) Frank Bridge Oration, concerto elegiaco for cello and orchestra (1930) Suite for cello and orchestra (orch. Robert Cornford, 1982) Benjamin Britten Cello Symphony, Op. 68 (1963) Dirk Brossé Elegy For Cello and Strings (1994) Double concerto for Cello and Clarinet (2000) Concerto for Isabelle (2015) Tobias Broström Cello Concerto (2013) Alexander Brott Cello Concerto Evocative Provocations (1975) Stephen Brown Concerto for Two Cellos in G minor, "The Big Twin" (2016) Max Bruch Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 (late 1880) Canzone, Op. 55 (about 1891) Adagio after Celtic themes, Op. 56 () Ave Maria, Op. 61 (1892) Fritz Brun Cello Concerto (1947) Joanna Bruzdowicz Cello Concerto The Cry of the Phoenix (1994) Gavin Bryars Cello Concerto (1995) Rudolph Bubalo Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra (1992) Gunnar Bucht Cello Concerto No. 1 (1954) Cello Concerto No. 2 (1990) Julius Bürger Cello Concerto (1938) Geoffrey Burgon Cello Concerto (2007) William Busch Cello Concerto (1941) Geoffrey Bush Sinfonietta Concertante (1943)
C Antonio Caldara Cello Concerto in D minor Roger Calmel Cello Concerto (1968) Édith Canat de Chizy Moïra (1998) André Caplet Epiphanie for cello and orchestra (1923)
Cello Concerto (2001) David Carlson Cello Concerto No. 1 (1979) (Carl Fischer Music) Cello Concerto No. 2 for cello and 15 strings (1997) (Carl Fischer Music) Elliott Carter Cello Concerto (2000) Robert Casadesus Cello Concerto (1947) André Casanova Cello Concerto (1983) Alfredo Casella Cello Concerto (1934–35) Philip Cashian Concerto for cello and Strings (2012) John Casken Cello Concerto (1991) Gaspar Cassadó Cello Concerto in D minor (1926) Joseph Castaldo Cello Concerto (1995) Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Cello Concerto, Op. 72 in G minor (1935)
Cello Concerto Ricardo Castro Cello Concerto (1895) Yi Chen Eleanor's Gift concerto for cello and orchestra (1999) Friedrich Cerha Konzert (1989-1996) Shirvani Chalayev Cello Concerto No. 1 (1970) Cello Concerto No. 2 (1975) Carlos Chávez Cello Concerto (unfinished, 1975) Gordon Shi-Wen Chin Cello Concerto No. 1 (2006) Unsuk Chin Cello Concerto (2009/2013) Giovanni Battista Cirri Six cello concertos (Op. 14, Nos. 1–6) Walter Civitareale Cello Concerto (1986) Anna Clyne DANCE for cello and orchestra (2019) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Fantasiestücke 1907 Guillaume Connesson Cello Concerto (2008) Dinos Constantinides Cello Concerto China IV-Shenzhen (1992) Barry Conyngham Concerto for cello and strings (1984) Arnold Cooke Cello Concerto (1973) Frank Corcoran Cello Concerto (2014) Ronald Corp Cello Concerto (2014) François Couperin-Paul Bazelaire Pieces en concert for Cello and Strings Jean Cras Légende (1929) Lyell Cresswell Cello Concerto (1984) Gordon Crosse Ceremony for Cello and Orchestra op19 (1966) Cello Concerto (1979) César Cui Deux morceaux Op. 36 (1886) Andrzej Cwojdziński Cello Concerto No. 1 (1965) Cello Concerto No. 2 (1968) Cello Concerto No. 3 (1993)
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Marc-André Dalbavie Cello Concerto (2013) Luigi Dallapiccola Dialoghi (1960) Peter Maxwell Davies Strathclyde Concerto No. 2 (1987) Karl Davydov Cello Concerto No. 1 in B minor, Op. 5 (1859) Cello Concerto No. 2 in A minor, Op. 14 (1863) Cello Concerto No. 3 in D, Op. 18 (1868) Cello Concerto No. 4 in E minor, Op. 31 (1878) Richard Danielpour Cello Concerto No. 1 (1990) Cello Concerto No. 2 – Through the Ancient Valley (2001) Franz Danzi Cello Concerto G Cello Concerto A major Cello Concerto E minor Variations on Mozart's "Là ci darem la mano" from Don Giovanni Michael Daugherty Tales of Hemingway (2015) Brett Dean Cello Concerto (2018) Dan Dediu Cello Concerto (2019) Thomas de Hartmann Cello Concerto Op. 57 Concerto d'après un cantate de Bach fro Cello and strings Op.73 Théo De Joncker Cello Concerto Frederick Delius Cello Concerto (1921) Caprice and Elegy (1930) Louis Delune Cello Concerto (published 1927) Edison Denisov Cello Concerto, Op. 44 (1972) Variations on Haydn's Canon "Death is a Long Sleep" for cello and orchestra (1982) Gion Antoni Derungs Cello Concerto (2004) Pavle Dešpalj Concerto for cello and string orchestra (2001) Alon Deutsch Cello Concerto (2018)
Cello Concerto (2019) Frédéric Devreese Concertino for cello, bandoneón and string orchestra (1998) Concerto for cello and orchestra (1999) David Diamond Cello Concerto (1938) Kaddish for cello and orchestra (1987) Bernard van Dieren Elegy for cello and orchestra () Albert Dietrich Cello Concerto in G minor, Op. 32 Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf Cello Concerto D Paul-Heinz Dittrich Concerto for cello, string quartet and orchestra (1975) Georgy Dmitriev Cello Concerto (1968) Ernst von Dohnányi Konzertstück, Op. 12 (1904) Cornelis Dopper Cello Concerto (1910,1923) Antal Doráti Cello Concerto (1977) Friedrich Dotzauer Cello Concerto in B minor Cello Concerto in F-sharp minor Dimitris Dragatakis Cello Concerto (1972) Pierre Max Dubois Cello Concerto (1958) Vernon Duke Cello Concerto (1945) Jean-Louis Duport 6 cello concertos (No. 4 in E minor, 5 in D major, 6 in D minor) Pascal Dusapin Cello Concerto Celo (1996) Cello Concerto Outscape (2016) Henri Dutilleux Cello Concerto Tout un monde lointain... (1970) Antonín Dvořák Cello Concerto in A major, orchestrated by Jarmil Burghauser (1865) Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 (1894–1895)