concerto

IPA: kʌntʃˈɛrtoʊ

Examples of "concerto" in Sentences

Because of the difficulty, the concerto is rarely heard.
She stomped her way through Bruch's violin concerto last year to little payoff.
The meaning of the term concerto is "to fight," he instructs, but "it's a positive fight.
"The new concerto is a delightful piece with an exquisite central slow movement," he said.
The last recorded evidence of the concerto comes from the sale catalogue of a Dutch bookseller in 1759, 13 years after Kerr's death.
In between this and the inevitable wedding music, was the ubiquitous violin concerto with the even more ubiquitous Sarah Chang as soloist.
The composer may be in his seventies, but never before has he used the word 'concerto' in the title of a work, and never before has he written for solo violin.
Thomas Adès will return with his violin concerto, Emmanuel Ax will perform in several programs including one with Yo-Yo Ma, and Christine Brewer will give a recital.
A lost Vivaldi flute concerto is to be heard in full for the first time in 250 years after being rediscovered in the family archives of a Scottish nobleman who was killed at the battle of Culloden.
The river Exe at Bickleigh later formed the inspiration for a violin concerto, composed in 1951 as a gift for, and first performed by, his wife Pauline Ashley, a fellow student at Trinity College London, where (after national service in the RAF) he studied piano, theory and musical philosophy, and took lessons on the recorder from Edgar Hunt.