concerto

Better to hire experts than polyglots if you want to make a concerto.

You're playing a concerto with an orchestra on such and such a day.

I'm learning the Shostakovitch violin concerto right now to play with an orchestra in a few months.

Mozart's compositions are closer to the classical forms of a symphony, concerto, etc.

Think of years of training required to play a violin concerto.

Like someone playing a piano concerto with 10 fingers.

Electric Ladyland, In the Aeroplane, Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5 (I can't believe anyone would want Ode to Joy), and all the Gorillaz records.

That nearly 10 minutes of Violin Phasing can be described succinctly (in English) with much greater technical accuracy than one could describe the final movement of Brahms Piano Concerto Number 1 [3], which is only slightly longer.

Rostropovich, with his recording with von Karajan of the Dvorak concerto, made something really special at the beginning of the second movement: He has some depiction of remembered pathos.

When members of Germany’s anti-spying parliamentary commission meet now, they throw their mobile phones into a box and turn up the music (Grieg’s piano concerto)—for fear of America, not Russia.

I took a beginning course in violin: Good learning situation -- after the semester was over the teacher went on to play the Brahms concerto in Toronto!

You might not be able to play any arbitrary piece, but I think most people agree that just because you can't play Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3 doesn't mean you don't know how to play the piano.

I downloaded an album of Jascha Heifetz recordings from the Google Play store, and the track titles are all of the form "Violin Concerto in D Major", "Violin Concerto no.

Reviews of Naqoyqatsi (both the movie soundtrack and the concerto it turned into) frequently cite its "melodic" nature and "lyrical melodic lines" (BBC Music) and it is far from the only modern Glass piece to adopt a melodic approach (his epic first Violin Concerto comes to mind).

Perhaps you should start with something simpler, like a concerto." Young Composer: "But Herr Mozart, you were writing symphonies when you were 8 years old." Mozart: "Yes, but I never asked anyone how.

Not sure I agree, but it's unusual to see a professional writer/artist take a stance like this: "Listening to a Beethoven concerto or spending time in front of a van Gogh painting or reading a poem by Blake can be a profound experience on a scale that playing bridge or bowling a 220 game can never be.

Rachmaninov mentioned recording his Piano Concerto, Number Two...

This afternoon, I listened to the Heifetz and Piatigorsky performance of the Andante of the Brahms Double Concerto: Finally it dawned on me: Brahms had an abstraction of some kind of speech, say, of just the sound of the speech, the sounds that conveyed the emotion without knowing the literal words.