Sentence examples for concert overture from inspiring English sources

The evening opened with a dark, vibrant account of "The Hebrides," Mendelssohn's concert overture.

The piece, a concert overture, quickly became a popular favourite throughout Europe.

After the break he turned to the other work on the program, Mendelssohn's concert overture "The Hebrides".

Who says Americans have to celebrate the Fourth of July with Tchaikovsky's hackneyed concert overture, "1812," an exaltation of czarist Russia at the expense of Napoleonic France?

For that matter, Berlioz's concert overture "Le Corsaire," Mr. Gilbert's curtain raiser, also superbly flattered the orchestra's warm, silken string tone and the solidity of its brasses.

Parrott returned to Welsh legend with the concert overture Seithenyn (1959), commissioned and broadcast by the BBC Welsh Orchestra in 1959.

His concert overtures included charming Mendelssohnian works such as Parisina and The Naiades.

The box adds a new release of the Te Deum and Psalm 149 (along with the concert overtures Opp. 91 to 93) to reissues of the Requiem, the Stabat Mater and other works.

Throughout his career he wrote a number of other concert overtures.

At Balakirev's suggestion, Tchaikovsky based the work on Balakirev's King Lear, a tragic overture in sonata form after the example of Beethoven's concert overtures.

His next orchestral works, Cockaigne (In London Town), a concert-overture (1900 1901), the first two Pomp and Circumstance marches (1901), and the gentle Dream Children (1902), are all short: the longest of them, Cockaigne, lasting less than fifteen minutes.