A school of thought has it that those attributes are exactly what this concerto needs.

It was pleasant last night, therefore, to hear him do something else: a concerto he has recently recorded, `` The Emperor ''.

As the trombone has few works dating back to the classical period, his concerto is often highlighted by the trombone community.

The French soloist Jean-Pierre Rampal notably recorded several Mercadante concertos for flute and string orchestra, including the grand and romantic E minor concerto, which has since gained some popularity among concert flautists.

The solo concerto, however, has remained a vital musical force from its inception to this day.

Since the Romantic era, the cello has received as much attention as the piano and violin as a concerto instrument, and many great Romantic and even more 20th century composers left examples.

His Second Piano Concerto in B major ( 1881 ) has four movements and is written on a larger scale than any earlier concerto.

Today the concerto tradition has been continued by composers such as Maxwell Davies, whose series of Strathclyde Concertos exploit some of the instruments less familiar as soloists.

Dutilleux has also described his Métaboles as a concerto for orchestra, while Britten's well-known pedagogical work The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is essentially a concerto for orchestra in all but name.

Keiko Abe has written a number of compositions for six mallets, including a section in her concerto Prism Rhapsody.

This influence can also be seen in many of his works, including the operas Wat Tyler ( 1948 – 50 ) and Men of Blackmoor ( 1954 – 55 ), and his piano concerto which has a communist text declaimed by a male chorus in the last movement.

Kammermusik No. 6, for example, is a concerto for the viola d ' amore, an instrument that has not been in wide use since the baroque period, but which Hindemith himself played.

As well as the versions of Morceau de Genre, he has written 312-SL / 723 ( 1978 ) for two accordions, and in 1980 wrote a concerto for the instrument.

The " B " theme is a trio, a contrasting section not necessarily for only three instruments, as was often the case with the second minuet of classical suites ( the first Brandenburg concerto has a famous example ).

* Peter Katin — concert pianist, recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist — has made Bexhill his home.

There are at least two symphonies by Loewe-one, in D minor, has been recorded on the Koch Schwann label together with the first of at least two CD recordings of Loewe's second piano concerto ( in A major ), and another, in E minor, was given its first performance in 170 years in November 2004.

Only his violin concerto has ever been performed with anything approaching regularity, though he also wrote Idillio-concertino ( essentially a chamber symphony ), various pieces of chamber music including a piano quintet and two piano trio, two violin sonatas and a number of works for the organ amongst others.

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, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Andrei Eshpai, Eino Tamberg, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jean Françaix and Philip Glass.

A twentieth century development has been the reappearance of the concerto grosso pitting of soloists against the full ensemble.

Ever since, it has been one of the most important works of the violin concerto repertoire, and it is frequently performed and recorded today.

More recently, composer Alfred Schnittke provided controversial cadenzas with a characteristically 20th-century flavor ; violinist Gidon Kremer has recorded the concerto with the Schnittke cadenzas.

More recently, it has been arranged as a concerto for clarinet and orchestra, by Mikhail Pletnev.

The final version of the concerto was completed only a few weeks before Grieg's death, and it is this version that has achieved worldwide popularity.

* The comedian Bill Bailey is a skilled musician, and has used Grieg's piano concerto for comic effect ; in the TV Series Black Books it is played by his character Manny Bianco, and it is cited as an example in his solo mock-scholarly sketch on cockney music.

When he played the Allegro of an unpublished piano concerto of his own in June 1852, Henry Chorley remarked, " We have met with no Englishman for whom we have so long been waiting than Mr. Bache.

There have been other timpani concertos, notably, Philip Glass, considered one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century, wrote a double concerto titled Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, which features its soloists playing nine drums apiece.

He began what is believed to have been intended as a piano concerto.

On going through his papers, Messiaen's widow discovered that he had been composing a concerto for four musicians he felt particularly grateful to, namely Loriod, the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the oboist Heinz Holliger and the flautist Catherine Cantin ( hence the title Concert à quatre ).

Nevertheless, Rubinstein's Fourth Piano Concerto greatly influenced Tchaikovsky's piano concertos, especially the first ( 1874 — 5 ), and the superb finale, with its introduction and scintillating principal subject, is the basis of very similar material at the beginning of the finale of Balakirev's Piano Concerto in E-flat major [...] The first movement of Balakirev's concerto had been written, partially under the influence of Rubinstein's Second Concerto, in the 1860s.

At the time of writing The Four Seasons, the modern solo form of the concerto had not yet been defined ( typically a solo instrument and accompanying orchestra ).

He wrote during this period numerous piano pieces, including a concerto and set of variations for piano and orchestra, but these have been lost.

Al least one of Stamitz's clarinet concertos ( concerto No. 6 in E-flat major ) seems to have been jointly composed by Stamitz and Beer as both names appear on the title page of the Viennese manuscript.

Grieg had heard Schumann's concerto played by Clara Schumann in Leipzig in 1858, and was greatly influenced by Schumann's style generally, having been taught the piano by Schumann's friend, Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel.

In the last movement of the concerto, similarities to the halling ( a Norwegian folk dance ) and imitations of the Hardanger fiddle ( the Norwegian folk fiddle ) have been detected.

The sketches for the concerto have been recorded by pianist Einar Steen-Nøkleberg.

Apparently she was not shy — she really did not want to accept the position, though she had been recommended by an oboist in the orchestra, Laila Storch — and she held out not only for more money, but to be allowed to fulfill another engagement prior to starting the job, and a concerto appearance with the orchestra.

The music of the aria, marked " Siciliano " as the slow movement of the harpsichord concerto, has been regarded as a " farewell to worldly life ", in " a mood of heart-stopping intensity ", also as a mystic contemplation of a heavenly love.

Lord had been commissioned to compose a concerto for Hammond organ and orchestra with special parts for tympani.

Such works have been written since the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day.

Traditionally a three-movement work, the violin concerto has been structured in four movements by a number of 20th Century composers, including Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and Berg ( in the latter, the first two and last two movements are connected, with the only break coming between the second and third ).

A great deal of the album was recorded with an orchestral accompaniment ; in fact, Keith Emerson's side consisted solely of a 20 minute piano concerto which he had composed himself.

They worked together a number of times and recorded Brahms ' second piano concerto and Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto with the NBC Symphony for RCA.

In 1954 Malcolm Arnold wrote a Concerto for Flute and Strings for his friend, who recorded it in 1979, together with the concerto for flute and orchestra ( 1972 ).

The concerto is the first piano concerto ever recorded — by pianist Wilhelm Backhaus in 1909.

It became the first contrabassoon concerto to be recorded and released by a major record label, BIS Records.

His July 15, 1909 somewhat abridged recording of the Grieg Concerto was not only the first recording of that work, but the first time any concerto had ever been recorded.

Haitink and the Concertgebouw Orchestra also recorded the concerto two other times, one with Vladimir Ashkenazy and one with Arthur Rubinstein.

For example, Witold Lutosławski wrote his piano concerto for Zimerman, who later recorded it.

) Other early works for basset horn include a concerto for basset horn in G and small orchestra by Carl Stamitz, which has been arranged for conventional basset horn in F ( it has been recorded on this instrument by Sabine Meyer ), and a concerto in F by Heinrich Backofen.

Michael Collins, who studied with Thea King, has recorded the Mozart concerto playing a basset clarinet ( Deutsche Grammophon, along with a transcription for clarinet of Beethoven's Violin Concerto ).

Joy Farrall has also recorded Mozart's concerto, quintet and trio for clarinet, viola and piano ( BMG and Meridian ) using a basset clarinet.

The first concerto, in B major, was recorded with the USSR State Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Kirill Kondrashin.

The progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer brought Ginastera attention outside of modern classical music circles when they adapted the fourth movement of his first piano concerto and recorded it on their popular album Brain Salad Surgery under the title " Toccata ".

Although Gershwin never recorded the concerto, he was invited by Rudy Vallee to play the third movement from the concerto on an NBC radio broadcast in 1931, which was preserved on transcription discs and later issued on both LPs and compact discs.