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In Reply to: RE: How common is an instrumental soloist playing a long stretch A Capella? posted by amioutaline? on November 28, 2014 at 17:03:29
Lots of concertos have places to insert cadenzas for the solo instrument, some of which were written out by the composer, although there are often cadenzas by other composers that may be used (for example, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Artur Schnabel, many others wrote cadenzas for some of Mozart's piano concertos).
But the following examples, like Poulenc's organ concerto, have written-out solo sections or cadenzas by the composer of the piece, and these are invariably played:
Prokofiev Concerto #2 has a long section for solo piano in the first movement; it's a monster!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCeo1vyewEg
(starts about 5 minutes into the piece)
Shostakovich Cello Concerto 1 has a long cadenza for solo cello
Starts about 17 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSPO0d1SVbw
Shostakovich Violin Concerto 1 has a cadenza for solo violin staerting at around 30 min in:
http://youtu.be/t9AJuJAs4Z4?t=30m18s
There is also the piano-only opening of Saint-Saens Concerto 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v57cJC6broI
Rachmaninov wrote two cadenzas for the first movement of his piano concerto #3:
http://youtu.be/f6vARZLkaSY?t=11m6s
(which is the one that most pianists play)
or this one, which is played much less often:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhj7hunyVjw
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It is used to mean singing without instrumental accompaniment. Not "without music."
That's the appropriate use of the term, which, as you imply, is really NOT used in connection with instrumental music. What the OP refers to as "a capella" parts in a concerto should really be referred to as "unaccompanied soloist sections" or something like that.Also, I've never heard a reference to "a capella" as meaning "without music" - the literal translation would be "in [the manner of] the chapel".
As far as the OP's original question is concerned, almost all concertos have cadenzas for the soloist (per John's post below), so the cadenzas in the concerto would fulfill the OP's requirements for extended unaccompanied sections for the soloist.
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Technically you are correct. however in the end it means without instrument accompaniment. It does not really matter anyway. I knew what he meant. But this is a "music" asylum.
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