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concerto

[kuhn-cher-toh, kawn-cher-taw] / kənˈtʃɛr toʊ, kɔnˈtʃɛr tɔ /


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The name reflects the offensive's four stages, or seasons - like the Italian composer's violin concerto.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

As Beethoven does in his violin concerto, Bruch uses virtuosic passagework only insofar as it enables us to better know the melody.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

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

One day, Wilfred walked in and found me listening to a piano concerto.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Their vacation schedule brings them together in spring, summer, fall and winter — in that order, in the story — a plan that conveniently allows for Vivaldi’s well-known violin concerti to fill up the soundtrack.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025

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 will perform three Beethoven concerti, as well as piano recitals featuring a variety of repertoire.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2012

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 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

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 festival finale concert combines a chamber reduction of one of the piano concertos from Mozart’s golden years in Vienna with a work directly inspired by it.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

Whether I play the blues or boogies, concertos or cantatas, I forget about me.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper


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