Concerto Quotes

There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.
Evelyn Glennie

Rap, Explore, Eminem

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.
Itzhak Perlman

Work, Trust, Important

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.
Itzhak Perlman

Important, Small, Play

The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.
Mstislav Rostropovich

Great, Hero, Voice

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Piano, Higher, Complexity

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.
George Shearing

Few, Works, Piano

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.
Nigel Kennedy

Time, Different, Point

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.
Linda Lavin

Great, Forget, Before

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
Lope de Vega

Love, Pure, Harmony

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
Leila Josefowicz

Nice, Attention, Playing

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
Alfred Schnittke

Experience, Composer, Accordion

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.
John Hawkins

Spirit, Equal, Degree

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
Andre Boucourechliev

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