The Concerto for Orchestra was composer Bela Bartok's last completed work; he did not live to finish either the Third Piano Concerto or the Viola Concerto that followed it. In these last works, all ...
Completed in 1919, the Cello Concerto was Edward Elgar's last major work for orchestra, and his most confessional. In spite of fleeting moments of idyllic release, it's dominated by disillusionment, ...
In 1941, the Philadelphia Orchestra premiered a new violin concerto by West Chester-born composer Samuel Barber. The piece is ...
If you’ve spent any time around classical music, you might have heard the word ‘concerto’. It is a testimony to the enduring relevance of the concerto that for over four centuries, the genre has ...
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky's famed 1812 Overture was first performed, outdoors, at the base of the majestic Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. His beloved ballet, the Nutcracker, was introduced ...
The Cello Concerto was the last important work that Elgar wrote. Its first performance, in October 1919, with the composer himself conducting, opened the first post-war season of the London Symphony ...
In 1914, the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein was shot in the elbow and his right arm amputated. Wittgenstein resolved to continue his career as a performer and asked some of the most famous ...
Vaughan Williams’s 1944 Concerto for oboe and strings is one of few such works to maintain a foothold in the repertoire. David Threasher listens to a selection of the available recordings Ralph ...
Written in 1806, Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major was premiered by his colleague Franz Clement, just before Christmas of that year, on 23 December. Nine symphonies, five piano concertos, ...
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