concerto
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“No” to the Hollywood Bowl, where a concerto lasts longer than most L.A. marriages, “no” to hiking in Fryman Canyon and certainly “no” to ballroom dancing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
His account on Friday night of Mr. Salonen’s five-movement clarinet concerto “Kinēma” was an alchemic blend of technical acumen and tonal splendor in one of the composer’s most immediately enjoyable works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 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
One of the concerto highlights of Dudamel’s music directorship in L.A. is a performance, eight years ago, of the concerto’s mood-shifting eloquence, for which he and Mitsuko Uchida were in wondrous accord.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
For the next half-century, the concerto reigned supreme, and its godfather, or archangel perhaps, was composer-violinist Arcangelo Corelli.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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
Field’s training and the cast of his genius were not of a kind to enable him to excel in the larger forms of instrumental music, and his seven concerti for the pianoforte are now forgotten.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
At the retreat, no one was writing timeless concertos or the world’s greatest tragedies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
They’re not playing easy selections: Cole and Pawlos are playing Vivaldi concertos, Spillers is playing Seitz and Nguyen is playing Telemann.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
Many of Wolfgang’s childhood compositions, such as the first seven of his concertos for piano and orchestra, are largely arrangements of works by other composers.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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