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concerto

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


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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

To test it, he played a Tchaikovsky concerto, spanning its high and middle registers, finding sounds he “didn’t even know violins were capable of.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

Suddenly, as the orchestra rehearsed the Saint-Saëns second piano concerto, the maestro walked angrily off the stage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

His performance of his most famous and most romantic concerto was said to embody the seriousness of the times.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

Saint- Saens’s music is particularly Bachian, parts of his piano concerto no.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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