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Solo composition in the classical music genre
- A piano concerto, a type of concerto, is a solo composition in the classical music genre which is composed for piano accompanied by an orchestra or other large ensemble. Piano concertos are typically virtuosic showpieces which require an advanced level of technique.
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A piano concerto, a type of concerto, is a solo composition in the classical music genre which is composed for piano accompanied by an orchestra or other large ensemble. Piano concertos are typically virtuosic showpieces which require an advanced level of technique.
- Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto No.2. This colossus of the piano repertoire topped the annual Classic FM Hall of Fame for the first time in 2001 and hasn’t strayed far since, reaching that No.1 spot an impressive eight times so far, since the chart began in 1996.
- Beethoven – Piano Concerto No.5 (‘Emperor’) We all know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but in this case you absolutely can: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 absolutely lives up to its imperial nickname.
- Grieg – Piano Concerto in A minor. The great Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg only completed one piano concerto during his lifetime, and it has become one of the most recognised in the world (thanks, in part, to the iconic comedy sketch by Morecambe and Wise, and the late André Previn).
- Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No.2. Shostakovich himself downplayed this concerto, saying it had “no redeeming artistic merits”, but audiences have always begged to differ.
A piano concerto is a type of classical music composition written for a solo piano accompanied by an orchestra. Originating from the Latin term ‘concertare’, which means ‘to contend with’ or ‘collaborate’, a concerto is a musical dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra.
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First things first, let’s look at the state of Sergei Rachmaninovin 1900, when he started composing this towering piano masterpiece. He’d been absolutely pilloried in the press for his Symphony No. 1 a couple of years before and, to put it mildly, he was in a bit of a huff about it. Explore the Ultimate Classic FM Hall of Fame > Rachmaninov would h...
Bold move, chap. Bold move. Then the first movement becomes a storm of different themes, handed around the piano and the rest of the orchestra in a maelstrom of interconnectivity, until the towering ending, a right old clatter in C minor. Here's Simon Trpceski to explain:
Ah yes, the second movement. An epoch of sentimentality, the very apogee of emotion, partly thanks to this film: Here’s what the business end of the draining second movement looks like: It’s also got a fiendish cadenza, like this: Woof etc.
The finale is a beast. There’s plenty of meat to it, but it’s worth just having a little look at the very end, where the speed suddenly lurches out of control and hurtles towards a truly thudding climax. As you can see, it looks like an absolute nightmare: Even Lang Lang’s signature ‘ecstatic backwards flail’ manoeuvre turns out to be impossible un...
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concerto, since about 1750, a musical composition for instruments in which a solo instrument is set off against an orchestral ensemble.
A concerto (/ kənˈtʃɛərtoʊ /; plural concertos, or concerti from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble.
Mozart Piano Concertos, compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart not only numerous in quantity and excellent in quality but also standing very early in the existence of the genre and, indeed, of the piano itself. Mozart’s 27 concerti for solo piano and orchestra, composed between 1767, when he was.
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