(n.) A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
(2) It also somehow knows that, when I’m at the office, I often listen to Vivaldi concertos on YouTube, that I was (until now) a secret fan of even terrible police procedurals and that I have an interest in – as they term it, but I never have – suffrage, though I’ve neither liked nor posted about any of those things.
(3) It is hard to know where to start, and plunging in at random may lead to one of the many grey patches in his music, particularly in the later works such as the Strathclyde concertos.
(4) His chaotic yet coherent masterpieces of the late 1960s, such as his Eight Songs for a Mad King, in which a violin is smashed to pieces every time the work is played – a moment that still draws gasps from any audience – through to his later cycles of concertos, symphonies, string quartets and music-theatre pieces,, as well as the dozens of pieces he has written for communities and amateur musicians to perform, make his a unique achievement in 20th and 21st century music.
(5) Then there's a MacMillan triple bill ( Concerto, The Judas Tree and Elite Syncopations ) from 23 March to 16 April 2010.
(6) Meanwhile I’ve downloaded his recording of Brahms’s “third piano concerto”, and it is positively replete with humanity [see footnote].
(7) World Peace Is None of Your Business: tracklisting World Peace is None of Your Business Neal Cassady Drops Dead Istanbul I’m Not a Man Earth Is the Loneliest Planet Staircase at the University The Bullfighter Dies Kiss Me a Lot Smiler With Knife Kick the Bride Down the Aisle Mountjoy Oboe Concerto
(8) Would we be happy if a struggling concert pianist elected to amputate his hand so that he could perform Rachmaninoff's infamously difficult third concerto?
(9) Between 1987 and 1994, he composed 10 Strathclyde Concertos, each one written for the principal players of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and between 2002 and 2007 there appeared the 10 Naxos Quartets , commissioned by the Naxos recording company.
(10) He made it his mission to connect with as many different audiences and performers as possible, writing music for children, for his Orkney community, as well as grand symphonies – 10 of them, concertos, string quartets, and music theatre works.
(11) The tall, striking, glamorous Clark – an habitué of the Prada Italian restaurant on the Euston Road, where he would meet his bohemian friends for alcohol-fuelled lunches – had Anton Webern over to conduct his Five Movements for String Orchestra for broadcast; invited Igor Stravinsky to perform his own piano concerto on air, and Paul Hindemith his own viola concerto.
(12) It’s like someone storming into your house and throwing armfuls of flowers around, shouting: “I didn’t want to say anything but I’m just so incredibly moved by all these bouquets I’m receiving for that amazing thing I did!” @PeterBradshaw1 • This footnote was appended on 6 November 2014: Brahms’s “third piano concerto” is in fact Dejan Lazić’s own arrangement of Brahms’s Violin Concerto.
(13) His most recent UK productions have been a staged clarinet concerto and a collaboration with video artist Bill Viola on an acclaimed version of Tristan und Isolde.
(14) Sixteen adult subjects listened to tone pips superimposed on Bach concertos and either attended to the tones or to the music.
(15) He now writes symphonies, concertos, and sacred works of grandiloquent romanticism and religiosity.
(16) The original said that recent UK productions included a staged flute concerto.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Häagen-Dazs’ augmented reality Concerto Timer iPhone app Russell Jones, the co-founder of Condiment Junkie , the sensory and branding agency behind The Fat Duck’s Sound of the Sea dish, sees brands beginning to take sensory marketing more seriously.
(18) People who say “there are enough newspapers”, are like people who say there are enough public parks or libraries, or piano concertos: always and forever wrong.
(19) In 1945, there wasn't a hint of irony or parody in the film's pounding Rachmaninov score (the second piano concerto, played to the hilt by Eileen Joyce).
(20) In 1979 he celebrated his appointment as principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra with a typically electrifying concert of Brian Ferneyhough, Brahms – the First Piano Concerto, with his long-term concerto partner Maurizio Pollini – and Tchaikovsky, to whose symphonies he always brought a bel canto beauty of line.