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11 unusual facts about concerto


Barococo

Specifically, Barococo music has been described as "crisp, impersonal, concertante music" (Fink 2005, p.172).

Bradford Gowen

In January 1985 he performed the world premiere of Samuel Adler's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.

David Ohanian

Recorded instructional, audio and video recordings and published critical editions of Strauss and Mozart Concertos for Hal Leonard Publishing

Fredrik Fors

At 15 he made his debut as soloist in the Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 5, by Bernhard Crusell with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra.

Honda Concerto

Named for the musical composition, and primarily designed for European tastes, the Concerto was the successor to the Honda Ballade and the Honda Integra which was discontinued for the European Market owing to its unpopularity.

Joseph Szigeti

In 1905, at the age of thirteen, Szigeti made his Berlin debut playing Bach's Chaconne in D minor, Ernst's Concerto in F-sharp minor, and Paganini's Witches Dance.

He was among the first violinists to make Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto a standard part of his repertoire, and frequently performed and recorded works of Stravinsky (including the Duo Concertante, recorded with the composer at the piano in 1945.)

Mark Alan Wade

Wade won the D.M.A. Concerto Competition and appeared with the Ohio State University Symphony Orchestra as a soloist during the 2006/2007 season.

Musical improvisation

Such chords also appeared to some extent in baroque keyboard music, such as the 3rd movement theme in Bach's Italian Concerto.

The Mick Jagger Centre

A Concerto for saxophone by composer Adrian Smith was premiered in late 2009, followed by a Violin Concerto composed by Sarah Freestone.

William Pleeth

In the same year, 1931, he gave his first public performance of Dvořák's Cello Concerto at the Conservatory in Leipzig.


Abram Chasins

On January 1, 1929 he made his debut playing his Piano Concerto No 1 with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Ossip Gabrilowitsch.

Ambre Hammond

Lalo Schifrin, a renowned Hollywood film score writer has composed a double concerto for Ambre Hammond and trumpeter James Morrison which was premiered on 19 July 2007 at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony; the concert was later broadcast on ABC Television.

Andrés Andreani

This absurd story, inspired by Béla Bartók's third piano concerto, counts with the performances of Argentinean actors Martín Piroyansky and Norman Briski.

Anna Mahler

The Australian violinist Alma Moodie assisted Krenek with getting financial assistance from her Swiss patron Werner Reinhart (at whose instigation Krenek and Mahler were living in Zürich) and, in gratitude, Krenek dedicated the concerto to Moodie, and she premiered it on 5 January 1925, in Dessau.

Barjansky Stradivarius

Since 1983 the Barjansky Stradivarius has been played by Julian Lloyd Webber who has made more than thirty award-winning recordings on the instrument, including a renowned version of Elgar’s cello concerto, conducted by Yehudi Menuhin.

Bella Figura

Giuseppe Torelli ("Grave" from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor "Christmas Concerto").

Benjamin Godard

Benjamin Godard: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor (Concerto Romantique) and Scènes poétiques performed by Chloë Hanslip (violin) with the Kosice Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kirk Trevor (Naxos 8.570554)

The most recent recordings of music by Godard are the Piano Concerto No. 1, Introduction & Allegro and Symphonie Orientale performed by Victor Sangiorgio (piano) with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Martin Yates on Dutton Epoch CDLX 7274, released in 2011 and Piano Concerto No.2, Persian Fantasy, (again with Victor Sangiorgio and Martin Yates) Suites from Jocelyn and Overture Les Guelfes on Dutton Epoch, released in 2012.

Bradford Gowen

Mr. Gowen has served as a judge for several international piano competitions, including the Kapell, the Gina Bachauer, and the Sydney, and he was a member of the Advisory Committee that created and ran the Seventeen Magazine/General Motors National Concerto Competition.

Charles Vernon

In 2006, Vernon and the CSO premiered "Chick 'a' Bone Checkout" a new concerto for alto, tenor and bass trombone and orchestra, written by trombonist and composer Christian Lindberg.

Collegium Musicum Den Haag

l'europe réunie (ORF Edition Alte Musik) Georg Philipp Telemann: Wasser-Ouvertüre in C / Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 violins, 2 recorders, 2 oboes, bassoon & strings RV 566 / Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for harpsichord, 2 recorders, 2 violins, viola & b.c. BWV 1057 / Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer: Concerto armonico Nr. 5 / Jean-Féry Rebel: Fantaisie

Concerto grosso

In the twentieth century, the concerto grosso has been used by composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williamson, Henry Cowell, Alfred Schnittke, William Bolcom, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Andrei Eshpai, Eino Tamberg, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jean Françaix and Philip Glass.

Don Shirley

He composed 3 symphonies, two piano concerti, a cello concerto, three string quartets, a one-act opera, works for organ, piano and violin, a symphonic tone poem based on Finnegan's Wake and a set of "Variations" on the legend of Orpheus in the Underworld.

Dorina Frati

Frati has recorded with various labels, most notably: Antonio Vivaldi and A. M. Giuliani's Concerto for Mandolin (Erato); Johann Hummel's Opera Omnia for Mandolin and Neapolitan Concertos for Mandolin (Dynamic); G. G. Boni’s Sonatas for Mandola (Tactus); with the Philharmonic of La Scala she recorded the soundtrack of a movie by Nino Rota (Sony) and Otello (EMI); with the Pavarotti International recorded for Decca; also recorded for Stradivarius, Agorà and Ducale.

Edna Iles

Iles broadcast frequently for the BBC, and appeared as concerto soloist with distinguished conductors including Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Adrian Boult, and Willem Mengelberg.

Eugene Istomin

He made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy, playing a concerto by Chopin, and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Artur Rodziński playing Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in the same week in 1943.

Frederick Grinke

Ralph Vaughan Williams dedicated his Sonata in A minor, written in 1952, to Grinke, who recorded the composer's Concerto Accademico in D minor, and The Lark Ascending, with the Boyd Neel Orchestra.

Giorgio Federico Ghedini

Ghedini's most celebrated concert piece is Concerto dell'Albatro (Albatross Concerto) for violin, cello, piano, narrator and orchestra, which includes fragments from Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick in its final movement.

Glenn Dicterow

Other compositions committed to disc are works of Wieniawski with Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Lee Holdridge’s Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Holdridge conducting; Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Maxim Shostakovich on a Radiothon recording; and the Philharmonic’s recording of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade with Yuri Temirkanov on the BMG label.

Gustave Cloëz

Purely orchestral records by Cloëz include 'Intermezzo' by Georges Hugon (Orchestre des Concerts Symphoniques), Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 and Hungarian Fantasy (Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion Française, Raymond Trouard), Schobert's Concerto in G for harpsichord and orchestra (Ruggero Gerlin), Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp (with Gaston Crunelle, Pierre Jamet), the Hebrides Overture and Danse Macabre.

Horomona Horo

Horo was mentored by the late Dr Hirini Melbourne and Dr Richard Nunns and was the winner of the inaugural Dynasty Heritage Concerto Competition in 2001.

Irene Scharrer

She visited Edward Elgar in 1918 and was promised the first performance of his piano concerto, then being sketched.

Jack Winerock

He has recorded the Sonatas of Alexander Reinagle (teacher of George Washington's children) for the Musical Heritage Society and the Concerto for Piano and Winds by Igor Stravinsky for Golden Crest Records.

James Houlik

His concerto performances have included those with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Grant Park Symphony, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony, the West Virginia Symphony, the San Remo Orchestra (Italy), the Istanbul Philharmonic, the North Carolina Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Milan, the New Art Philharmonic of Pretoria, South Africa, the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the United States Navy Band, and dozens more.

Janez Krstnik Dolar

Miserere mei Deus: SATB, SATB in concerto, SATB, SATB in cappella, 2 Violini, 2 Viole, 2 Clarini, 2 Cornetti Muti, 3 Tromboni, Violone & Organo.

Jean-Guihen Queyras

In September 2005, he premiered Bruno Mantovani's concerto with the Saarbrücken Radio Sinfonie Orchestra and Phillippe Schoeller's Wind's Eyes with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg.

Jean-Luc Darbellay

The cellist Anssi Karttunen fist premiered his Concerto for violin and cello at the Maison de Radio France in 1989.

Jelly d'Arányi

Gustav Holst's Double Concerto for Two Violins was written for Jelly and Adila.

Jiří Antonín Benda

Benda's Harpsichord Concerto in C was featured in Apple Computer's 1989 Knowledge Navigator concept video.

John Psathas

Highlights in 2002 included the premieres of several major works, including View From Olympus a double concerto for piano, percussion and orchestra performed by Evelyn Glennie, Philip Smith and the Halle Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder at the Royal Gala finale of the Commonwealth Games 'Pulse' music festival in Manchester, UK.

Jonathan Cohler

His concerto appearances include Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the Santo Andre Orchestra in Brazil and Copland's Clarinet Concerto with the Evergreen Orchestra at the National Concert Hall of Taiwan in Taipei.

Josetxu Obregón

Selected this season as principal cellist of the European Union Baroque Orchestra, he has played under Lars Ulrich Mortensen (Concerto Copenhagen), Cristina Pluhar (L'Arpeggiata) and Maggie Faultless with great success, also appearing as soloist of Vivaldi concerto for 2 cellos in concerts in 13 countries.

Kingston Symphony

Recently the orchestra has given the world premieres of Chan Ka Nin's Violin Concerto (1998); Marjan Mozetich's Piano Concerto (2000); Srul Irving Glick's last work, Isaiah (2002); John Burge's Clarinet Concerto (2004); István Anhalt's The Tents of Abraham (2005); and Peter Paul Koprowski's Tapestries of Love: Symphony for Soprano and Orchestra (2007).

Mario Pilati

Pilati's output is considerable given his few years of compositional maturity, but it includes a Concerto for Orchestra (1932), premiered by Dmitri Mitropoulos at the Venice Biennale in 1938, which shows modal influences of Respighi as well as a Mahlerian ländler in the finale.

Max Bruch

The Sutro sisters, however, had asked Bruch for a concerto specifically for them, which he produced by arranging this suite into a double piano concerto, but only to be played within the Americas and not beyond.

Moritz Moszkowski

The Piano Concerto in E major was first recorded by Michael Ponti, and more recently by Piers Lane.

Omaha Symphony Orchestra

In 2002, under the baton of then-Music Director Victor Yampolsky, the orchestra performed the world premiere of Philip Glass's Piano Concerto No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark).

Pascal Quartet

Chausson: Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet, with Louis Kaufman and Arthur Balsam (c.1949-1952, on Nixa LP).

Paul Procopolis

The recording of the second Chopin concerto has been identified as that of the Brazilian pianist Carmen Vitis Adnet (who lived in Vienna and was married to pianist Hans Graf) with the Vienna Symphony under Hans Swarowsky.

Pavel Pabst

On 19 April 2005, 120 years after its premiere, Pabst's 'Lost Concerto' was performed by Panagiotis Trochopoulos at a concert given in Minsk by the Belarusian State Academic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marius Stravinsky.

Pierre Sancan

As a piano teacher, Sancan helped to train such luminaries as Michel Béroff, Selman Ada, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Émile Naoumoff, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Jean-Marc Savelli, Daniel Varsano, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Jacques Rouvier, and Jean-Philippe Collard who has recorded Sancan's Piano Concerto.

Pittsburgh Youth Ballet

The company was honored to receive the licenses and permission from the George Balanchine Trust to perform Serenade, Who Cares?, Tarantella, Dance of the Hours, Concerto Barocco, Allegro Brillante, and Valse Fantasie.

Selim Giray

Most recently, Dr. Giray performed Dvořák's violin concerto with the Southeast Kansas Symphony Orchestra, and "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso" by Camille Saint-Saëns, and Poème by Ernest Chausson with Hays Symphony Orchestra.

Sigmund Mifsud

Wayne Marshall; in 2008 the Trumpet Concerto in E flat major from Haydn’s Series of Baroque Concerts also with a private orchestra; and in 2006 Shostakovich Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra during the Centenary Concert under the baton of Mro.

Sylvie Bodorová

She wrote piano concerto Come d'accordo for Prague Philharmonia and pianist Martin Kasík, premiered in February 2006, Song Cycle Slovak Songs for Štefan Margita and Gabriela Beňačková – the cycle was recorded in 2006 – and Amor tenet omnia – cycle of choruses on the texts from Carmina Burana premiered in Luxembourg and France in August 2007.

Ulvi Cemal Erkin

It was Alfred Cortot who gave him the idea of composing a piano concerto during his visit to Turkey, after listening to his Quartet.

Walter Hendl

An advocate of contemporary music, he conducted the premieres of Peter Mennin's Symphony No. 3 with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1947, Bohuslav Martinů's Piano Concerto No. 3 with Rudolf Firkušný and the Dallas Symphony in 1949, Villa-Lobos's Cello Concerto No. 2 with Aldo Parisot and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1954, and the American premiere of Kabalevsky's Requiem with students of the Eastman School in 1965.

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#"Toccata" An adaptation of Ginastera's 1st piano Concerto, 4th movement (Alberto Ginastera, arr. Emerson) – 7:21