* 1993 Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante / Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme ( Sony 48382 )

The DOREMI set includes two string quartets, two fugatos for string quintet, a Piano Trio, a Piano Quartet, a Serenade Concertante, two Overtures, an Offertorium, five Lieder, and etude for piano and Variations Brilliantes on a theme of Bellini for Piano 6 hands.

During the Soused ( or Brown-Bag ) Period, P. D. Q. Bach wrote a Concerto for Horn & Hardart, a Sinfonia Concertante, a Pervertimento for Bicycle, Bagpipes, and Balloons, a Serenude, a Perückenstück ( literally German for " Hairpiece "), a Suite from The Civilian Barber ( spoofing Rossini's The Barber of Seville ), a Schleptet in E-flat major, the half-act opera The Stoned Guest ( the character of " The Stone Guest " from Mozart's Don Giovanni ), a Concerto for Piano vs. Orchestra, Erotica Variations ( Beethoven's Eroica Variations ), Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, an opera in one unnatural act ( Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and the 1969 film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ), The Art of the Ground Round ( Bach's The Art of Fugue ), a Concerto for Bassoon vs. Orchestra, and a Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion.

** Lorin Maazel ( conductor ), Yo-Yo Ma & the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante / Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme

The works for which he is best known are the Concerto for Double String Orchestra, the oratorio A Child of Our Time and the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli.

Other works from this period are the Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles, commissioned in 1948 by the BBC, the song-cycle The Heart's Assurance, written in memory of Francesca Allinson and first performed in 1951 by Britten and Pears, and the 1953 Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli.

His seventieth birthday in January 1975 coincided with the showing on British television of the film Akenfield, which made prominent use of the Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli.

The second period, from then until the late 1950s, includes the opera The Midsummer Marriage, the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, the Piano Concerto and the Second Symphony ; this period features rich textures and effervescent melody.

The opening of the ' pastorale ' section from the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli

" There are passages in his music which evoke the ' sweet especial rural scene ' as vividly as Elgar or Vaughan Williams ; passages ( such as the Pastorale from the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli ) perhaps redolent of the Suffolk landscape with its gently undulating horizons, wide skies and soft lights.

After the First Symphony, his style became less severely linear, but his continuing love of fugue can be seen in works such as the Third String Quartet, where three out of the five movements are fugal, and the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli.

The music of the 1950s is fundamentally lyric in style, though there are comparatively few long-breathed melodies ; two such can be found in the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, and the Piano Concerto opens with a long tune for high piano and flute, creating " a sustained crescendo, thirty-three bars long leading to a sonorous tutti "( David Matthews ).

The musical score is by Michael Nyman, and is, at Greenaway's specific request, entirely based on themes taken from the slow movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364, bars 58-61 of which are heard in their original form immediately after each drowning.

The soundtrack is mainly by Michael Nyman and is partly based, like his later music for Drowning by Numbers, on the slow movement of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra K. 364.

The Sinfonia Concertante was mentioned in William Styron's 1979 novel Sophie's Choice ; after a stranger molests Sophie on the subway, she hears the Sinfonia Concertante on the radio, which brings back memories of her childhood in Krakow and snaps her out of her depression.

* Mozart The Five Violin Concertos, Sinfonia Concertante, Concertone, Avie Records ( also on Magnatune )

In July 1967 the LSSO made its first commercial disc for the Pye Golden Guinea label and Ridout responded to a request for a short work for inclusion on the disc by composing a lively Concertante Music.

Concertante Music was then taken on the LSSO tour of Denmark and Germany in September 1967 ( see external video link below ).

The Philadelphia Orchestra returned to the Grand Court on September 27, 2008 for the premiere performance of Joseph Jongen's Symphonie Concertante ( 1926 ) on the organ for which it was written.

** written for Concertante, who premièred the work in Harrisburg, PA on 15 May 2010.

He has recorded works by Ludwig van Beethoven and R. Murray Schafer with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, violin works by Edvard Grieg, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante.

There were, of course, some concerti grossi that remained, the most famous of which being Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat Major.

The earliest known existing concertos are by Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, who composed two concertos for the double bass and a Sinfonia Concertante for viola and double bass.

Mozart, in his Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E flat, wrote the viola part in D major and specified that the viola's strings were to be raised in pitch by a semitone: his intention was probably to give the viola a brighter tone so as to avoid it being overpowered by the rest of the ensemble.

Mozart also wrote for the viola in his Sinfonia Concertante in which the solo viola and violin are equally important, a set of two duets for violin and viola, and the Kegelstatt Trio for viola, clarinet, and piano.

He wrote one concerto each for flute, oboe ( later rearranged for flute and known as Flute Concerto No. 2 ), clarinet, and bassoon, four for horn, a Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra, a Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, and Exsultate, jubilate, a de facto concerto for soprano voice.

Masterpieces were written by Edward Elgar ( a violin concerto and a cello concerto ), Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Medtner ( four and three piano concertos, respectively ), Jean Sibelius ( a violin concerto ), Frederick Delius ( a violin concerto, a cello concerto, a piano concerto and a double concerto for violin and cello ), Karol Szymanowski ( two violin concertos and a " Symphonie Concertante " for piano ), and Richard Strauss ( two horn concertos, a violin concerto, Don Quixote — a tone poem which features the cello as a soloist — and among later works, an oboe concerto ).

* 1954: Quincy Porter, Concerto Concertante for two pianos and orchestra

Frequently the organ is given a soloistic part, such as in Joseph Jongen's Symphonie Concertante for Organ & Orchestra, Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Organ, Strings and Tympani, and Frigyes Hidas ' Organ Concerto.

The Petite Symphonie Concertante of 1944 / 45 ( which made Martin's international reputation ) is the best known of his orchestral works, as the early Mass is of his choral compositions and the Jedermann monologues ( for baritone and piano or orchestra ) of his works for solo voice.

* Concertante for Piano and Violin ( 1937 )

* Concertante for Piano, Strings and Percussion ( 1954 )

The Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů wrote two works in this genre: Sinfonia Concertante for Two Orchestras, H. 219 ( 1932 ) and Sinfonia Concertante No. 2 in B-flat major for Violin, Cello, Oboe, Bassoon and Orchestra with Piano, H. 322 ( 1949 ).

* WA Mozart: Symphonies Nos 36 & 39 ( Terence Fragor ), Four Horn Concertos ( Michael Thompson ), Piano Concerto No 21 ( Tamás Vasary ), Serenade in C minor K388 ( Howard Nelson ), Violin Concertos 3 & 4 ( Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Theodor Guschlbauer ), Sinfonia Concertante ( Richard Studt, Nodar Jvania ), Clarinet Concerto ( Joan Enric Lluna ), Oboe Concerto ( Andrew Knights / Richard Studt )

Music for Violin and Piano ; Leon Kirchner: Sonata Concertante ( Jaime Laredo, violin ; Ruth Laredo, piano ); Aaron Copland: Sonata for Violin and Piano ( Jaime Laredo, violin ; Ann Schein, piano ); Charles Ives: Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano ( Jaime Laredo, violin ; Ann Schein, piano ); Benjamin Lees: Sonata No. 2 ( 1973 ; Rafael Druian, violin ; Ilse von Alpenheim, piano ).

Among Fine's compositions are a violin sonata ; a string quartet ; Fantasia for String Trio ; Music for Piano ; Partita for Wind Quintet ; Toccata Concertante for Orchestra ; Notturno for Strings and Harp ; Serious Song, subtitled a " lament for string orchestra "; Diversions for piano and orchestra ; and the Symphony 1962, which premiered at Tanglewood less than two weeks before his untimely death following a heart attack ( Fine conducted the premiere when Charles Munch, who was originally to have conducted, fell ill ).

Other pieces were composed for him by Reilly's accompanist James Moody, Matyas Seiber ( Old Scottish Air for Harmonica, Strings and Harp ), Gordon Jacob ( Five Pieces for Harmonica and Strings ), Fried Walter ( Ballade and Tarantella for Harmonica and Orchestra ), Karl Heinz-Köper ( Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra ), Graham Whettam ( Fantasy for Harmonica and Orchestra ), Vilem Tausky ( Concertino for Harmonica and Orchestra ), Francis Ward ( Kaleidoscope for Harmonica and Orchestra ), Willem Strietman (" O bonne douce France " for Harmonica and Orchestra ), Max Saunders ( Sonatina for Harmonica and Piano ), Sir George Martin ( Three American Sketches for Harmonica and Strings, and Adagietto for Harmonica and Strings ), Alan Langford ( Concertante for Harmonica and Strings ), Paul Patterson ( Propositions for Harmonica and Strings ).

* Mozart wrote the solo viola part for his Sinfonia Concertante a semitone lower, with the viola strings to be tuned a semitone higher to D, A, E, B.

The first concerto is widely considered to be one of the most difficult concerted works for cello, along with the Sinfonia Concertante of Sergei Prokofiev, with which it shares certain features ( such as the prominent role of isolated timpani strokes ).

81, with an organ soloist, the Sinfonia Concertante ( Symphony No. 4 ), for flute, harp and small string orchestra by Andrzej Panufnik written in 1973, and Peter Maxwell Davies's Sinfonia Concertante for wind quintet, timpani and string orchestra of 1982.

When Mozart was in Paris, a Concert Spirituel with Mozart's Symphonie Concertante, K. 297b, was cancelled, and Mozart blamed Cambini for sabotaging his performance.

His Sinfonia Concertante for Clarinet in B flat is available for downloading from Philip Stott's Music Box, along with other compositions, and the full orchestral score from Finale Showcase.