It took Franz Liszt 26 years to compose his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat Major.
The Concerto for Orchestra, composed in 1969 for Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, is an essay in musical multivalence.
Boyar calls it a groundbreaking new work, "Double Concerto for Violin and Percussion" by Harold Farberman, a former percussionist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Solo opportunities for tuba players outside the orchestra are few, although the English composer Ralph (pronounced "Rafe") Vaughan Williams wrote a fine concerto for tuba and orchestra (1954).
With a love of bluegrass and jazz, they started along their improvisational way by re-crafting classical favorites (like Bach's Concerto for Two Violins, which Time for Three recorded in NPR's Studio 4A), and have continued to grow and compose their own music.
Mr. Jacobs is currently touring with conductor Michael Tilson-Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, playing the world-premiere performances of "Mass Transmission" by SFSO resident-composer Mason Bates, as well as the beguilingly rhythmic "Concerto for Organ With Percussion Orchestra" by Lou Harrison (1917-2003).
Two important solo works nonetheless date from the Classical era: Joseph Haydn's Concerto in E-flat for trumpet and orchestra (1796) and Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Concerto, also in E-flat (1803).
The Asko Concerto, composed in 2000 for the 16 players of the Dutch Asko Ensemble, is a contemporary concerto grosso, in which all of the players have their moment in the spotlight.
In April, composer Vivian Fung won a Juno Award, Canada's top music honors, for her Violin Concerto, which was commissioned, premiered and recorded by Metropolis.
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For instance, in the Harrison concerto, "it's all up to me, " Mr. Jacobs says.
The pianist learned the First Concerto as an adolescent, but his esteem for it has deepened considerably over the years.
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S. Bach's Second Brandenburg Concerto (ca. 1721) includes a part for solo trumpet in this style.
Haydn's horn concerto, Mozart's four horn concertos, and Beethoven's sonata for horn and piano were all written for natural horn, although they're usually played today on valve horn.
His work for the English National Ballet includes the Nutcracker and the award-winning Double Concerto.
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