concerto
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This is meant not as a concerto in which the soloist stands as an individual against the masses but, rather, as a partner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 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
He will also premiere a new violin concerto, “How to be a Bird” by Gabriella Smith.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 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
He was playing a fragment of a Beethoven concerto.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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
He made a playlist of about 30 classic concerti, narrowed that down to 20 and listened obsessively.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2019
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
He writes fugues for organs and sonatas for violin solo under the influence of Bach, concerti grossi under the influence of Haendel, variations under that of Mozart, sonatas under that of Brahms.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
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
A festival that celebrates one of the country's most popular composers Sir Malcolm Arnold will mark its 20th year by playing 20 of his concertos.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
Phil, Chin’s 2014 Clarinet Concerto and a pair of Brahms concertos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
They’re not playing easy selections: Cole and Pawlos are playing Vivaldi concertos, Spillers is playing Seitz and Nguyen is playing Telemann.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
Soft piano or violin concertos with orchestral accompaniments work well.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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