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The National Symphony commissioned symphonies from Roy Harris and William Schuman as well as Alan Hovhaness’ “Ode to Freedom,” a lovely short violin concerto written for Yehudi Menuhin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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

Toru Takemitsu called his tender, mistily opaque viola concerto “Ring Around Autumn.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 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

Corelli’s typical concerto grosso was divided into three sections of contrasting speeds - slow-fast-slow or fast-slow-fast - after the fashion of the earlier consort suites or setts.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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

The experience made him reflect on the role of violins in Jewish culture, from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to klezmer bands to Itzhak Perlman’s soaring concertos.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

Soft piano or violin concertos with orchestral accompaniments work well.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin