--- product_id: 29327484 title: "Victor Herbert: Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Irish" brand: "joann falletta" price: "VT7303" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/29327484-victor-herbert-cello-concertos-nos-1-and-2-irish store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Victor Herbert: Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Irish **Brand:** joann falletta **Price:** VT7303 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Victor Herbert: Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Irish by joann falletta - **How much does it cost?** VT7303 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/29327484-victor-herbert-cello-concertos-nos-1-and-2-irish) ## Best For - joann falletta enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted joann falletta brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Product Description Irish-born Victor Herbert was one of the most celebrated names in American music in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A cellist, conductor, and composer of light operas, he was also a recording artist. His two Cello Concertos are full of gracious melodies, the D major having a songlike slow movement and a spirited Polonaise finale that earned praise at it's 1885 première in Stuttgart. The E minor Concerto, scored for a large orchestra, is more tightly constructed then the First and it was hearing this work that inspired Herbert's superior at the National Conservatory in New York, Antonín Dvorák, to write his own great B minor Cello Concerto. Review "Kosower, principal cellist of the Cleveland Orchestra, brings dramatic presence to Herbert's foreboding opening cello melody over tremolo strings and plays the broad, singing slow movement theme with moving eloquence."--Janet Banks,The Strad, July 4, 2016 "Ms. Falletta and the Ulster players seem to relish the many familiar tunes in the piece, performing with an obvious joy and enjoyment. The music may be little more than a medley of familiar tunes, but they are well-loved tunes and very well played." --John J Puccio, Classical Candor, July 2016Classics Today: Sound Quality 9/ Artistic Quality 9"The coupling too, Herbert's very pretty and enjoyable Irish Rhapsody, gives the program greater substance than Harrell's arrangement of short pieces for cello and strings. It's often mentioned that it was a performance of Herbert's Second Cello Concerto that inspired Dvorák to write his own masterpiece in the form, but Herbert can certainly hold his own when the concertos get the respect and care that they deserve, and receive, on this winning new disc." --David Hurwitz, Classicstoday.com, 2016 ## Images ![Victor Herbert: Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Irish - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81V6hHUhKQL.jpg) ![Victor Herbert: Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Irish - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71UNlAMiyFL.jpg) ![Victor Herbert: Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Irish - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8163p0-ZDNL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars almost forgotten genius *by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2021* Victor Herbert was a "serious' musician and performer before he gained fame with his popular musicals.These cell concertos are very enjoyable and could be collector's items. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars Nice work by Kitzower, Falletta, and the Ulster Orchestra *by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2017* The most memorable piece here is the least consequential -- the 15-minute filler, "Irish Rhapsody," which is a bit of a musical cliche, but given a snappy performance here. The Cello concertos are much more substantial, though, but it's hard not to remember that Dvorak's great one (supposedly inspired by Herbert's No. 2) is just in a different league expressively. That said, though, these are attractive, well-wrought works, and I would pay money to hear them in a program played as well as they are here by Mark Kitzower, an artist whom I hadn't heard before. The Naxos sound balances orchestra and soloist well -- a tricky matter with the cello -- and the Ulster Orchestra sounds very good. JoAnn Falletta, whose recording of Bartok's "Kossuth" was enterprising and very nicely executed, is excellent again here -- lively and expressive in the appropriate places. Once agin, she brings to life worthy if less familiar music. Recommended. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Serious and sublime compositions from the pen of Victor Herbert *by C***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2016* Victor Herbert is one of those individuals who doesn't fit quite neatly in our classical music consciousness. Was he an American composer of operettas and light classical music? (Yes.) Was he a European composer of serious works? (Yes.) Was he a performing artist? (Yes, a cello soloist.) Was he a teacher? (Yes again.)So an interesting amalgam ... and this recording gives us three aspects of Herbert's persona: the composer of serious works as well as light classics, with the former featuring Herbert's own instrument.The Cello Concerto #1 was premiered in Germany in 1884, with the composer as soloist. It's a conventional work in its structure and form -- similar to many other concertante works being composed by other Central European composers of the time (Draeseke, Gernsheim, von Reznicek, etc.). And yet, despite the inevitable similarities to other essays in the genre, the First Concerto has some very charming and memorable moments -- particularly in the singing middle movement and the exciting final movement in the style of a polonaise. Even the first movement, which has perhaps a little too much in the way of predictable orchestra-as-adjunct-to-the-soloist writing, retains our interest because Herbert is such a master of melody.Engaging though the first concerto is, the Concerto #2 is quite another matter, taking us more than a few notches higher. I consider this work to be Herbert's crowning glory in terms of the "serious" works he created. Completed a decade after the First Concerto and premiered in New York City with the composer again performing as soloist, it has a much more "symphonic" character, with more connectivity and integrity between the three movements. Famously, the piece is said to have been the inspiration behind the creation of Dvorak's own mature Cello Concerto, which that composer had been hesitant to write since a failed effort at composing a cello concertante work decades earlier.The Cello Concerto #2 is a piece I've known for nearly 40 years, and it's one that never grows old. It has a pensive, brooding quality about it in the outer movements, which bookend a sublime yet heartrending slow movement in which the cello's plaintive solo voice is hauntingly beautiful.While the Concerto #1 has had very few recordings -- the only one I've heard before this is the London/Decca recording by Lynn Harrell and Sir Neville Marriner -- the Second has had a half-dozen recordings easily -- most of them quite fine. Harrell, Yo-Yo Ma/Mazur (Sony), Gautier Capucon/Paavo Jarvi (Erato) and Julian Lloyd-Webber/MacKerras (EMI) all have their strong points, and let's not forget the classic late 1950s Mercury recording with Georges Miquelle and Howard Hanson: it was the first one in stereo and it did much to give the Concerto exposure in the modern era.In this newest recording, Mark Kosower, who is principal cellist of the Cleveland Orchestra, is every much as effective as his esteemed fellow recording soloists. His tone is silvery smooth ... light and playful in the final movement of the First Concerto ... passionate and rhapsodic in the Second. He takes a rather deliberate tempo in the opening section of the Second, but soon hurtles into the main theme with the kind of "impetuousness" suggested by the movement's "Allegro Impetuoso" title. The "sweet sorrow" of the middle movement of #2 was so poignant, it brought tears to my eyes. Hearing Kosower's sublime account reconfirmed my view that the middle movement is the emotional high-point of this concerto.The Ulster Orchestra and its erstwhile music director JoAnn Falletta are the perfect partners in these concerti, turning in wonderfully idiomatic interpretations. They seem right at home with this music, intonation is flawless, and balances with soloist Kosower are ideal. Even though Falletta no longer has an official capacity with Ulster, on the strength of her recordings with the orchestra -- Gustav Holst, E.J. Moeran, John Knowles Paine and now Victor Herbert -- it certainly makes one hope that she will continue doing so, because it's a recording partnership made in heaven.... And as if the two cello concerti aren't enough, the NAXOS recording concludes with the "Irish Rhapsody." It's light classical music "par excellence" -- a pastiche that plumbs no great depths but is simply delightful from first note to last. It's one of those guilty pleasures that even the most serious-minded, hardcore classical music-lover couldn't help but enjoy. The Falletta/Ulster interpretation has atmospherics to burn.In sum, this is yet another highly interesting recording from NAXOS featuring repertoire that deserves to be better known. Congratulations to all the performers as well as the production team for a fine finished product. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/29327484-victor-herbert-cello-concertos-nos-1-and-2-irish](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/29327484-victor-herbert-cello-concertos-nos-1-and-2-irish) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-06-05*