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A violoncello concerto (commonly called a cello concerto) is a concerto for solo violoncello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.

These pieces have been written from the time of Vivaldi and Tartini in the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike the violin, the cello had to face harsh competition from the older, well-established viola da gamba. As a result few important cello concertos were written during the Classical period with the notable exceptions of those by C.P.E. Bach, Haydn and Boccherini. Its full recognition as a solo instrument came during the Romantic era (Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Dvorák). From then on, cello concertos have become more and more frequent. Most post-World War II composers have written at least one, along with the more usual piano and violin concertos.

Cello concertos near the center of the "repertoire". The big list of cello concertos has been moved to List of compositions for cello and orchestra.

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Cello Concerto in A minor
  • Cello Concerto in B-flat major
  • Cello Concerto in A major
• Samuel Barber
  • Cello Concerto in A minor op. 22 (1945)
• Luigi Boccherini
  • Cello Concerto In B-Flat Major (No. 9 of at least twelve concertos)
  • Cello Concerto in D
• Henri Dutilleux
  • Tout un Monde Lointain (1970)
• Antonín Dvorák
  • Cello Concerto No. 1 in A, op. posth
  • Cello Concerto No. 2 in B minor op. 104 (1894-1895)
• Edward Elgar
  • Cello Concerto op. 85 in E minor (1918-1919)
• Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Cello Concerto No. 1 in C
  • Cello Concerto No. 2 in D
  • Several others although their authenticity is disputed
• Paul Hindemith
  • Cello Concerto in E flat major op. 3 (1916)
  • Kammermusik #3 for cello and 10 instruments op. 36/2 (1925)
  • Cello Concerto in G (1940)
• Dimitri Kabalevsky
  • Cello Concerto No. 1 in G minor op. 49 (1949)
  • Cello Concerto No. 2 in C minor op. 77 (1964)
• Aram Khachaturian
  • Cello Concerto in E Minor (1946)
  • Concerto-Rhapsody in D Minor (1963)
• Edouard Lalo
  • Cello Concerto in D minor (1876)
• György Ligeti
  • Cello Concerto (1966)
• Witold Lutosławski
  • Cello Concerto (1969-70)
• Nikolai Myaskovsky
  • Cello Concerto in C Minor, Op.66
• Krzysztof Penderecki
  • Cello Concerto No. 1 (1972)
  • Cello Concerto No. 2 (1982)
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Cello Concerto op. 58
  • Symphony-Concerto op. 125 in E minor from 1950-52
  • Cello Concertino op. 132 in G minor (incomplete) (1952)
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Cello Concerto No. 1, op. 33 in A minor (1872)
  • Cello Concerto No. 2, op. 119 in D minor (1902) ([1])
• Robert Schumann
  • Cello Concerto op. 129 in A minor (1850)
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Cello Concerto No. 1, op. 107 in E-flat (1959)
  • Cello Concerto No. 2, op. 126 in G (1966)
• Giuseppe Tartini
  • Cello Concerto in C minor
  • Cello Concerto in D major
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • Cello Concerto RV 398 in C
  • Cello Concerto RV 400 in C
  • Cello Concerto RV 401 in C
  • Cello Concerto RV 402 in Cm
  • Cello Concerto RV 403 in D
  • Cello Concerto RV 404 in D
  • Cello Concerto RV 405 in Dm
  • Cello Concerto RV 406 in Dm (related to RV 481)
  • Cello Concerto RV 407 in Dm
  • Cello Concerto RV 408 in E-flat
  • Cello Concerto RV 410 in F
  • Cello Concerto RV 411 in F
  • Cello Concerto RV 412 in F
  • Cello Concerto RV 413 in G
  • Cello Concerto RV 414 in G
  • Cello Concerto RV 415 in G
  • Cello Concerto RV 416 in Gm
  • Cello Concerto RV 417 in Gm
  • Cello Concerto RV 418 in Am
  • Cello Concerto RV 419 in Am
  • Cello Concerto RV 420 in Am
  • Cello Concerto RV 421 in Am
  • Cello Concerto RV 422 in Am
  • Cello Concerto RV 423 in B-flat
  • Cello Concerto RV 424 in Bm
  • Double Concerto for Cello and Bassoon RV 409 in Em
  • Double Concerto for 2 Cellos RV 531 in Gm
• William Walton
  • Cello Concerto in C minor (1955-6)

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Triple Concerto
• Ernest Bloch
  • Schelomo Rhapsodie Hebraïque for violoncelle et grand orchestre
• Johannes Brahms
  • Double Concerto in Am for Violin and Cello Op. 102
• Benjamin Britten
  • Cello Symphony (1963)
• Max Bruch
  • Kol Nidre
• Antonín Dvořák
  • Rondo in G minor opus 94, 1893 [2]
  • Silent Woods opus 68, number 5
• Richard Strauss
  • Don Quixote
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Variations on a Rococo Theme

• Clarinet concerto
• Harpsichord concerto
• List of compositions for cello and orchestra
• Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
• Triple Concerto for Violin Cello and Piano
• Piano concerto
• Viola concerto
• Violin concerto