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.

Israeli Musician

Linda Lavin

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.

American Actress

Joshua Bell

The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.

American Musician

John Hawkins

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.

English Businessman

Niccolo Paganini

At a grand evening service in a church, my concerto created such a furor that the worshippers rushed out to keep the crowd outside the church quiet.

Italian Musician

Hilary Hahn

It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience.

Julian Bream

If the orchestra's not enjoying itself, the concerto will not succeed, with the players confined to using half an inch of bow.

British Musician

Roy Orbison

Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.

Leila Josefowicz

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

Canadian Musician

Zubin Mehta

After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

Indian Musician

A concerto can feature multiple soloists, often called a 'double' or 'triple' concerto.

Multiple Soloists

A concerto spotlights the solo instrument, showing off the player's skill and the instrument's range.

Instrument Highlight

Certain concertos have historical or cultural significance, often linked to famous composers or periods.

Cultural Significance

 like a square or a triangle, or the complex pattern on a butterfly's wings. If you are artistically inclined, you might think of the subtle modulations of a Mozart concerto, or the effortless poise of a prima ballerina. When used in every day life, the word symmetry represents vague notions of beauty, harmony and balance.

The science of symmetry...

 so I can eat my favorite song. So depending on how I display it, I can hear and I can compose music with food. So imagine a restaurant where we can have, like, Lady Gaga salads as starters. I mean, this would get teenagers to eat their vegetables, probably. And also, some Rachmaninov piano concertos

Neil Harbisson: I listen...

 instruments made the age of the virtuoso possible this is when those big forms arose the symphonies the sonatas the concertos and these big architectures of time composers like Beethoven could share the insights of a lifetime a piece

Music and emotion...

 sounded the exact same I get that but over the entire course of a piece a concerto a a symphony that technique makes a huge difference let's move on to the second technique movement movement to an extent is great however a lot of

A lesson in classical...

 made the age of the virtuoso possible. This is when those big forms arose -- the symphonies, the sonatas, the concertos. And in these big architectures of time, composers like Beethoven could share the insights of a lifetime.

Michael Tilson Thomas:...

 music with food so imagine a restaurant where we can have like Lady Gaga's salads as starters and this would get teenagers to eat their vegetables probably and also some Rachmaninoff piano concertos as main dishes and some

I listen to color - Neil...

 it was absolutely phenomenal what comes next is a career that alters history music seems to pour out of mozart symphonies operas concertos string quartets piano sonatas and more unlike beethoven and other brilliant

The Secret of Musical...

 But let's move on to a piece where clearly I'm behaving myself, and that is my "Concerto for Orchestra." You're going to notice a lot of conventional instruments in this clip.

The mad scientist of...

 in the last year of the composer's life. He was dying of leukemia and he knew it, and he dedicated this concerto to his wife, Dita, who was herself a concert pianist.

Ben Dunlap: The...

 The "Winter" concerto begins with teeth chattering in the cold before one takes refuge by a crackling fire. Then it's back out into the storm