Concerto
A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.
Related Definitions:
Accompaniment,
Against,
As,
Bold,
Composition,
Display,
Form,
In,
Instrument,
One,
Or,
Orchestra,
Out,
Performer,
Qualities,
Relief,
Skill,
So,
Symphonic,
The,
Three,
To,
Two,
Which,
With
Concerto Quotations
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
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
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
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
Gyorgy Ligeti
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
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
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
Alfred Schnittke
Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
Lope de Vega
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
Concerto Translations
concerto in Dutch is concerto
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
