concertos in English

noun
1
a musical composition for a solo instrument or instruments accompanied by an orchestra, especially one conceived on a relatively large scale.
I had been rather unimpressed by this composer's piano concertos but his solo piano music is clearly a different matter.

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1. Title Andantino Other Title Concertos, violin, orchestra, no

2. In 1735 he introduced organ concertos between the acts.

3. Cadenzas to the great concertos are of course still written today

4. Shostakovich recorded the two concertos in stereo in Moscow for Melodiya.

5. His orchestral music includes around 30 symphonies and 12 virtuoso cello concertos.

6. Someone who creates something: He was a Begetter of chamber music and concertos in the 1980s

7. Cadenzas to Mozart Flute Concertos (Tillmetz, Rudolf) Cadenzas to Mozart's Piano Concertos (Müller, August Eberhard) Cadenzas to the Kraus Viola Concertos (Fine, Marshall) 5 Cadenzas (Léonard, Hubert) Cadenzas, Capriccios and Sketches (Pagin, Andre-Noel) 36 Cadenzas, K.624/626a (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus) 64 Cadenzas, Op.11 (Borghi, Luigi)

8. “Through the years, I have collected recordings of his symphonies, concertos, sonatas, and quartets.”

9. Additional awards are given for best performance of the chamber concertos and the commissioned new work.

10. However, it took twenty concertos for other instruments before Penderecki finally created one for solo trumpet with his Concertino

11. He had time to amass a large repertoire of 32 concertos and many dozens of solo works.

12. She learned twenty-eight violin concertos, as well as recital programs, chamber works, and assorted showpieces.

13. I listen to a brief passage from one of the Brandenburg concertos and work on the Times crossword.

14. Charles Avison's concertos after Domenico Scarlatti-- often referred to as the "Avison Scarlatti Concerti" -- are a landmark in British music

15. Eingänge lead into a solo statement This collection offers Cadenzas for 11 concertos of the theme.

16. ‘Though he received lessons in academic subjects and singing, violin, and Clavier, he received little instruction in composition.’ ‘In addition there is a large body of secular work for diverse instrumental forces, such as the Brandenburg Concertos, orchestral suites, violin and Clavier concertos, etc.’

17. Listen to the widest selection of curated Classical Music radio channels including Mozart, Beethoven, Symphonies, Concertos, Orchestral, Opera and more.

18. Christine Walveska is an acclaimed master Cellist who played since childhood, performed around the world for small concertos and large Philharmonic orchestras

19. Bach himself did not disdain to transcribe Vivaldi concertos for organ or harpsichord and to borrow fugue-subjects from Legrenzi and Corelli.

20. Since the 1980s, she has staged few solo performances, concentrating instead on concertos and, in particular, chamber music, and collaborating with instrumentalists in sonatas.

21. Cadenzas also began to appear in the concertos of Torelli.6 The length and the virtuosity of both the vocal and instrumental Cadenzas continued to grow

22. Concerto, plural Concerti or concertos, since about 1750, a musical composition for instruments in which a solo instrument is set off against an orchestral ensemble

23. From Contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the more unusual concertos to have found their way into the concert hall over the centuries

24. 23 To my dismay, a friend recently told me he prefers the Rachmaninoff piano concertos to those of Mozart because Rachmaninoff is more "gutsy" and "wears his heart on his sleeve."

25. Benjamin Schmid, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg (Capriccio) 1990: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concertos for flute and orchestra K 313 & 314, Andante for flute and orchestra in C major K 315, Rondo in D major K Anh.

26. 1988 Oslo, Crown Princess Sonja International Music Competition, 5th Prize 1990 Warsaw, International Chopin Piano Competition, 5th Prize 1992 Sydney, International Piano Competition of Australia, 5th Prize 1993 Munich, ARD International Music Competition, 1st Prize 2006 Classical Internet Awards, Camille Saint-Saëns, Piano Concertos III & V Classical Records Frederic Chopin, Mazurkas, Ballads, Walzes, Andante Spianato Frederic Chopin, the two piano concertos; Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, Julian Kovatchev Frederic Chopin, integral Préludes and Impromptus Frederic Chopin, integral Etudesop.

27. Kissin's talents were revealed to the international scene in 1984, at the age of twelve, when he played and recorded both of Chopin's piano concertos with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire.

28. Yet with his usual, inexhaustible fertility of invention, Vivaldi turned this apparent lack into an opportunity to explore the possibilities of development and counterpoint more extensively than was possible in the oppositional and Accompanimental language of the solo concertos.

29. Duo Concertante, the Newfoundland-based duo of violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves, have followed up their outstanding set of the complete Beethoven Sonatas with an equally satisfying CD of Double Concertos for Violin, Piano and Orchestra by Felix Mendelssohn and Andrew Paul MacDonald.

30. As a recording artist, he has recorded 25 CDs with Sony Classical, Warner Classics, JVC/Victor, Naxos, Acacia Classics/Universal, ATMA, XXI-21 and Octave/Universal, among them the world premiere recordings of the Violin Concertos by Portuguese composers Luis de Freitas Branco and Armando José Fernandes.

31. ‘The Scherzo Capriccioso, abridged in this recording in order to fit on two 78 rpm sides, was recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1930.’ ‘Akin to Dvorak's Scherzo Capriccioso in many respects, it is even more full of harmonic daring.’ ‘Concertos were written for him, as also was the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso.’

32. The Cembalo part includes on the top staff the musical substance of the first violin in all tutti sections, and the interplay between solo and accompanying instruments is marked as "solo" and "tutti." Thus the Cembalo part could have been used to perform these concertos either with or without an orchestra.

33. The Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, or Twelve Grand Concertos, HWV 319–330, are 12 Concerti grossi by George Frideric Handel for a Concertino trio of two violins and violoncello and a ripieno four-part string orchestra with harpsichord continuo.First published by subscription in London by John Walsh in 1739, in the second edition of 1741 they became Handel's Opus 6.