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concerto

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


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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

In “Murmurs of Time,” Hussain created a kind of tabla concerto.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2025

Toru Takemitsu called his tender, mistily opaque viola concerto “Ring Around Autumn.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 2025

Saint- Saens’s music is particularly Bachian, parts of his piano concerto no.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

He made a playlist of about 30 classic concerti, narrowed that down to 20 and listened obsessively.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 28, 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 Henderson, W. J. (William James)

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

"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

The experience made him reflect on the role of violins in Jewish culture, from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to klezmer bands to Itzhak Perlman’s soaring concertos.

From New York Times Mar. 21, 2024

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

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper




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