Dvořák — Cello Concerto, Mvt. I opening

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Where this excerpt appears

Every major conservatory cello audition as a concerto option
Competition concerto rounds (Tchaikovsky, Queen Elisabeth)
Principal cello auditions where concerto is optional
Summer festival concerto competition finals

Panel-ready practice tips

1.The orchestral introduction is long — practice counting bars before your entrance so a nervous entry doesn't rush the first statement.
2.The opening statement must sound inevitable, not rehearsed — every candidate has practiced it thousands of times. Panels reward the one who makes it sound like a first thought.
3.The high register passages at letter B require planned fingerings that allow vibrato — do not choose easy fingerings that strand you on the first finger.
4.Rhythmic tension in the dotted-rhythm figures: panels mark smoothing them out.
5.Intonation on the upper register: practice with drone on D (the concerto's tonal center) so the ear calibrates inside the tonality.