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concerto

[kuhn-cher-toh, kawn-cher-taw] / kənˈtʃɛr toʊ, kɔnˈtʃɛr tɔ /


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Together they gave the concerto a sense of unity that is rare, albeit with fewer fireworks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

One of the first things he conducted at Ojai was “Gnarly Buttons,” a clarinet concerto by the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

The opening night concert will see Korean piano sensation Yunchan Lim playing Ravel's piano concerto in G Major, and star tenor Thomas Atkins transporting the audience to France, via George Gershwin's An American In Paris.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

Leading the pessimist concerto, Bloomberg News claimed that a “diving stock market” and $100-a-barrel crude could augur a financial crisis as catastrophic as the 2008-09 crash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

It was one Sunday afternoon when Nollie and her family were visiting that Peter suddenly spoke up in the middle of a Brahms concerto.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Up north in Bellingham, the annual festival gets underway with an orchestral program featuring the dynamic pianist George Li in the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3, arguably the best of that composer’s concerti.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2019

I probably played the four Mozart horn concerti a thousand times apiece.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2017

The mighty assortment of recordings of the symphonies, concerti, chamber music operas and sacred works justify the cost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2016

They would play something like a dozen pieces each: preludes and fugues, chorales, chorale preludes, sonatas, concerti, variations, and “free” works drawn from Bach’s five decades as a working organist.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2014

His success had brought on the long-neglected composer pressing applications for concerti and sonata, adapted to his more peculiar science on the violin.

From Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

As if to compensate, on a drizzly Sunday evening in Kyiv, a crowd gathered in the street beneath an apartment building’s third-floor balcony to hear a makeshift string quartet play concertos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

"There's so many strings in there that can wander out of tune, especially when you're playing big piano concertos," Terry explains.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025

Phil, Chin’s 2014 Clarinet Concerto and a pair of Brahms concertos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

Both concertos begin with a rumbling in the timpani, barely the outline of a rhythm, but enough of a motif to inspire developments in the orchestral and violin parts that build to strenuous emotional heights.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

Maybe if I was one of those wonder-kids who plays piano concertos at age four, or a super child athlete, it would be easier.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan




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