* Concerto for alphorn and orchestra ( 1970 ) by Jean Daetwyler

* Concerto for alphorn No. 2 ( with flute, string orchestra & percussion ) ( 1983 ) by Daetwyler

Berg had interrupted the orchestration of Lulu because of an unexpected ( and financially much-needed ) commission from the Russian-American violinist Louis Krasner for a Violin Concerto ( 1935 ).

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

Bartók's last work might well have been the String Quartet No. 6 but for Serge Koussevitzky's commission for the Concerto for Orchestra.

Concerto for Orchestra quickly became Bartók's most popular work, although he did not live to see its full impact.

In 1945, Bartók composed his Piano Concerto No. 3, a graceful and almost neo-classical work, as a surprise 42nd birthday present for Ditta, but he died just over a month before her birthday, with the scoring not quite finished.

In the mid-century and in the following decades, many new concerti were written for the double bass, including Nikos Skalkottas's Concerto ( 1942 ), Eduard Tubin's Concerto ( 1948 ), Lars-Erik Larsson's Concertino ( 1957 ), Gunther Schuller's Concerto ( 1962 ), and Hans Werner Henze's Concerto ( 1966 ).

In the 1970s and 1980s, new concerti included Nino Rota's Divertimento for Double Bass and Orchestra ( 1973 ), Jean Françaix's Concerto ( 1975 ), Einojuhani Rautavaara's Angel Of Dusk ( 1980 ), Gian Carlo Menotti's Concerto ( 1983 ), Christopher Rouse's Concerto ( 1985 ), and Henry Brant's Ghost Nets ( 1988 ).

In the first decade of the 21st century, new concerti include Kalevi Aho's Concerto ( 2005 ), John Harbison's Concerto for Bass Viol ( 2006 ), and André Previn's Double Concerto for violin, double bass, and orchestra ( 2007 ).

Yngwie Malmsteen released his Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in 1998, and Steve Vai released a double-live CD entitled Sound Theories, of his work with the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra in June 2007.

Other early pieces that were praised were his Symphony in E, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, and Overture in C ( In Memoriam ) ( all three of which premiered in 1866 ).

Certainly not in Orchestra Hall where he has played countless recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, or forever finds it closed.

* Concerto in G Major for Viola and String Orchestra, TWV 51: G9 ; the first known concerto for viola, still regularly performed today

* Concerto in G Major for Two Violas and String Orchestra, TWV 52: G3

*" Concerto in D for Horn and Orchestra "

* Concerto for Two Chalumeaux and Orchestra

When Connick, Jr., was nine years old, he performed the Piano Concerto No. 3 Opus 37 of Beethoven with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra ( now the Louisiana Philharmonic ), and later played a duet with Eubie Blake at the Royal Orleans Esplanade Lounge in New Orleans.

He soon began to perform with notable music groups throughout the United States, notably playing the American premiere of Hans Werner Henze ’ s Double Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington D. C.

Glass in particular has recently turned to conventional orchestras in works like the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra and the Violin Concerto No. 2.

Along with the iconic main theme and effective support of the story line, the score also contains allusions to twentieth-century symphonic works, such as the reference to Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, second movement, in the tense quiet scene just before the shoot out.

* January 14 – Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G debuts with piano soloist Marguerite Long and Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra.

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.

Sixty years later, Menuhin took the baton to conduct the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the Variations for Philips, as a coupling to the Cello Concerto with Julian Lloyd Webber.

Bliss continued to compose into his eighth and ninth decades, in which his works included the Cello Concerto ( 1970 ) for Mstislav Rostropovich, the Metamorphic Variations for orchestra ( 1972 ), and a final cantata, Shield of Faith ( 1974 ), for soprano, baritone, chorus and organ, celebrating 500 years of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, setting poems chosen from each of the five centuries of the Chapel's existence.

Lloyd Webber has made many recordings, including his BRIT Award winning Elgar Cello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin ( chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine ), the Dvořák Cello Concerto with Václav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten's Cello Symphony and Walton's Cello Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which was described by Gramophone magazine as " beyond any rival ".

Among his better known works are the Variations for Orchestra ( 1954 – 5 ); the Double Concerto for harpsichord, piano and two chamber orchestras ( 1959 – 61 ); the Piano Concerto ( 1964 – 65 ), written as an 85th birthday present for Igor Stravinsky ; the Concerto for Orchestra ( 1969 ), loosely based on a poem by Saint-John Perse ; and the Symphony of Three Orchestras ( 1976 ).

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.

Although he employed twelve-tone elements sporadically throughout his career, these become much more pervasive in the Eighth Symphony ( 1965 ) and many of the works following it: the Variations for Cello and Orchestra ( 1966 ), Clarinet Concerto ( 1967 ), Ricercare for Orchestra, Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra ( 1970 ), and Flute Concerto ( 1971 ).

Piano Concerto No. 1, Guitar Concerto No. 1 and the Variations on Bach's Inventions are some of the works of Richard Kearns who is another of Ireland's classical composers.

Other works of this period are the Concerto for Strings, Variations on an Alentejo Theme, and three Symphonic Overtures.

The instrument is rarely used in classical music ; Arnold Schoenberg employed it in his Variations for Orchestra and his unfinished opera Moses und Aron, and Aram Khachaturian wrote for it in his Piano Concerto ( though here the flexatone is now often omitted ).

Helmut Walcha has also recorded most of Bach's harpsichord works ( The English and French Suites, The Goldberg Variations, Partitas, The Italian Concerto, 15 Inventions and 15 Sinfonias, The Well-Tempered Clavier ) for EMI.

* Piano Concerto No. 3 " Variations and Theme " ( 1973 ).

They include The Rio Grande, Walton's First Symphony, some outstanding Berlioz extracts and Elgar's Enigma Variations and Cello Concerto ( with W. H.

Amram's most recent orchestral works include Giants of the Night, ( commissioned and premiered by flutist Sir James Galway in 2002 ); Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie, ( commissioned by the Woody Guthrie Foundation in 2007 ); and Three Songs: A Concerto for Piano and Orchestra ( written for and premiered by pianist Jon Nakamatsu in 2009 ).

In pieces such as the Bernhard Molique " Concerto No 1 in G for concertina and orchestra ", or Percy Grainger's " Shepherd's Hey ", four, five and six note chords are not uncommon, and would be difficult or impossible to play without using all the fingers.

He wrote eight piano concertos, ten piano sonatas ( of which four are without opus numbers, and one is still unpublished ), eight piano trios, a piano quartet, a piano quintet, a wind octet, a cello sonata, two piano septets, a mandolin concerto, a mandolin sonata, a Trumpet Concerto in E major written for the Keyed trumpet ( usually heard in the more convenient E-flat major ), a " Grand Bassoon Concerto " in F, a quartet for clarinet, violin, viola, and cello, four hand piano music, 22 operas and Singspiels, masses, and much more, including a variation on a theme supplied by Anton Diabelli for Part II of Vaterländischer Künstlerverein.

The great moment of celebration came when Joachim, without the slightest hesitation, responded to the spontaneous request to play Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major.

The Museum of Non-Objective Painting ( later, The Guggenheim ) commissioned him to synchronize a film with a march by John Philip Sousa in order to demonstrate loyalty to America, and then insisted that he make a film to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, even though he wanted to make a film without sound in order to affirm the integrity of his non-objective imagery.

** Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 14 " Concerto without Orchestra "

This change was achieved without significant change to the remaining structure, but provided a more distinctive Rover " family look " and establish a certain distance from the Honda Concerto.

In 1960 he premiered Serge Nigg's Concerto, which the composer is said to have written " for the violin and not without the violin ".

* Concerto in A minor for flute and strings ( without viola ) ( 1745, 1954 rediscovered ).

The Concerto pathétique, written in 1865, ( S. 258 / R. 356 ), is Franz Liszt's most substantial and ambitious two-piano work ( without orchestra ).