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concerto

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


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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

In a Thursday night marathon, he paid tribute to the orchestra members, giving 17 players solos in various concerto movements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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

To test it, he played a Tchaikovsky concerto, spanning its high and middle registers, finding sounds he “didn’t even know violins were capable of.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025

It was one Sunday afternoon when Nollie and her family were visiting that Peter suddenly spoke up in the middle of a Brahms concerto.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

Up north in Bellingham, the annual festival gets underway with an orchestral program featuring the dynamic pianist George Li in the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3, arguably the best of that composer’s concerti.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2019

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

But it was in 1602 that he published his "Cento concerti ecclesiastici a 1, a 2, a 3, e a 4 voci, con il basso continuo per sonar nell' organo."

From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson

At the retreat, no one was writing timeless concertos or the world’s greatest tragedies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

"There's so many strings in there that can wander out of tune, especially when you're playing big piano concertos," Terry explains.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 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

Soft piano or violin concertos with orchestral accompaniments work well.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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