This week, the National Symphony Orchestra gave three performances of the concerto, featuring pianist Yundi Li.
The concerto merged elements of Christian, Jewish and Islamic music into a "homogenous, harmonious and joyful conclusion, " she said.
The Concerto for Orchestra, composed in 1969 for Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, is an essay in musical multivalence.
" On that occasion, Mr. Thibaudet was featured in two George Gershwin classics: the Concerto in F, and the "Rhapsody in Blue.
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The concerto's opening is notable because the piano enters almost imperceptibly.
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"When I showed Stanley the first movement of the concerto, it was the only time I've ever seen him in his life look terrified, " Corigliano remembers.
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.
"When you play the Second Concerto, the pianistic challenges are enormous, " he said.
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The Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, specifically the first movement, Allegro, has all the joy, beauty and exhilarating quality of human life at its best.
Even if I have played the Dvorak Concerto thousands of times, every time I reached the final pages I have tears in my eyes.
The pianist learned the First Concerto as an adolescent, but his esteem for it has deepened considerably over the years.
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The Piano Concerto, which Busoni completed in 1904, is a gaudy, unapologetically over-the-top piece, stuffed with references to nineteenth-century Romantic styles.
For instance, in the Harrison concerto, "it's all up to me, " Mr. Jacobs says.
The first two movements are devilishly written dynamically, and the same is true in the First Concerto.
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So I locked myself in the bathroom, and I put my music stand in the bathtub, took out the music, and I attempted the Mendelssohn concerto.
Having made the Piano Concerto No. 2 a virtual calling card by performing it more than two-dozen times last year, Mr. Bronfman returns to the piece this spring.
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Conducts Yehudi Menuhin in a recording of the violin concerto.
And over the years, we would visit - he would give me advice about music with offers, sort of, to a secret program to the Lutoslawski Concerto, which he commissioned.
Their reaction to the offense was shock: He was removed from the school and given a new violin instructor, whose first demand of his student was that he learn the Mendelssohn concerto first.
You suspect that Busoni is mocking the bravura Romantic concerto as it emerged in the later nineteenth century, and, more widely, satirizing the gargantuan, post-Wagnerian apparatus of the music of his day.
Schumann added two more movements, and the resulting Piano Concerto in A minor has become one of the most popular romantic piano concertos in the repertoire.
Quite where the insane idea of playing a concerto before the annual gathering of most of the greatest living horn players came from is hard to tell, but the result is a marvellous memoir of a year's obsession that should be read by anyone gripped by illogical compulsion.
The 5th Brandenburg Concerto works on me and reminds me that what really matters in music is the sensation of hearing it feeling it and it inspires me to continue to strive to create the strongest sensations I can using the methods and tools I have access to.
Among many Bach transcriptions by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet is the arrangement of movements from the sixth Brandenburg Concerto.
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"I was supposed to be playing Bach, and all I wanted to do was play the Mendelssohn violin concerto, " Hope says.
The penultimate "American Mavericks" program, at Zankel Hall on March 29, will mark not only Mr. Jacobs's own Carnegie Hall debut, but the first organ concerto performance there since 1988.
Earlier this month, pianist Marcus Roberts performed an original piano concerto with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
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"We've played a Mozart piano concerto where the soloist literally skipped the entire development, " Mr. Bauch says.
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Collected over 40 years by American physicist Don Gurnett, these sounds have recently been arranged by composer Terry Riley into what may be the very first space concerto.
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).
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