#concerto

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

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

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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

— Alfred Schnittke

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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

#competition #concerto #end #felt #head

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

— Evelyn Glennie

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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

#before #concerto #dream #else #forget

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

#carnegie hall #concerto #feel #front #get

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto. ↗

— Lope de Vega

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

— Nigel Kennedy

#brahms #concerto #different #each #even

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

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