Sentence examples for concerto from inspiring English sources
noun
A piece of music for one or more solo instruments and orchestra.
Self-flagellation was seen at its most merciless in last weekend's For The Record column in the Observer, where readers' editor Stephen Pritchard was characteristically stern in taking a classical CD reviewer to task for praising an oboist for his "almost 40 minutes of continuous solo" in Vaughan Williams's oboe concerto – in reality "the piece lasts barely 20 minutes", he pointed out scornfully.
The orchestra initially said it would replace Lisitsa with another pianist, then removed the Rachmaninov concerto from the concert programme altogether.
In January she played a Prokofiev piano concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre.
The 19th-century concerto was usually a contest between soloist and orchestra.
The earlier Mozartian concerto, with its give and take, was arguably more congenial to women.
Mr Ornstein produced a body of work that included a violin sonata, several string quartets and a piano concerto.
When members of Germany's anti-spying parliamentary commission meet now, they throw their mobile phones into a box and turn up the music (Grieg's piano concerto)—for fear of America, not Russia.
In this sharp triple bill, BRB dance the playfully subversive Stravinsky Violin Concerto, the fierce, combative Agon (pictured) and the jazzy profusion of Symphony In Three Movements.
He was the soloist on Mozart's Violin Concerto No 4, which combined technical precision and a breezy sweetness to exhilarating effect, with Barenboim playing the hire-wire act with two vertiginous solos.
Sunday's concert will again explore Berg's instrumental music, including his last completed composition, the poignant Violin Concerto.
Hungarians may be known for their sometimes gloomy temperament, but the flip-side is a great love for partying.The Budapest Spring Festival, now in its 32nd year, drew to a close on March 26th with a bravura performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D minor by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Charles Dutoit (pictured below).
