Concerto for Orchestra
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Although a concerto is usually a piece of music for one or more solo instruments accompanied by a full orchestra, several composers have written works with the apparently contradictory title Concerto for Orchestra. This title is usually chosen to emphasise soloistic and virtuosic treatment of individual instruments in the orchestra.
For the distinction between the Concerto for Orchestra and the Sinfonia Concertante genres (or: forms): see sinfonia concertante
The best known Concerto for Orchestra is the one by Béla Bartók (1943), although the title had been used several times before.
[edit] Concertos for Orchestra (in chronological order)
- Concerto for Orchestra, Opus 38 by Paul Hindemith (1925)
- Concerto for Orchestra by Walter Piston (1933), which is based in part on Hindemith's work
- Concerto for Orchestra by Zoltán Kodály (1939)
- Concerto for Orchestra by Béla Bartók (1943)
- Concerto for String Orchestra by Grażyna Bacewicz (1948)
- Concerto for String Orchestra by Alan Rawsthorne (1949)
- Concerto for Orchestra by Witold Lutosławski (1950-54, which won him the UNESCO 1st price in 1963.
- Concerto for Orchestra by Grażyna Bacewicz (1962)
- Concerto for Orchestra by Michael Tippett (1962-63)
- Concerto for Orchestra by Havergal Brian (1964)
- Concerto for Orchestra by Roberto Gerhard (1965)
- Concerto for orchestra by Thea Musgrave (1967)
- Concerto for Orchestra by Elliott Carter (1969)
- Concerto for orchestra by Anthony Payne (1974)
- Concerto for Orchestra by Roger Sessions (1979-81), which won him the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1982
- Concerto for Orchestra by Karel Husa (1986)
- 1st Concerto for Orchestra by Steven Stucky (1986-87)
- Concerto for Orchestra by Leonard Bernstein (1986-89), which is also known as "Jubilee Games" for orchestra and baritone
- Concerto for Orchestra by Joan Tower (1991)
- Boston Concerto by Elliott Carter (2002)
- Concerto for Orchestra by Jennifer Higdon (2002).
- Concerto for Orchestra by Magnus Lindberg (2003).
- 2nd Concerto for orchestra by Steven Stucky (2003, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2005
- Concerti for orchestra by Milton Babbitt (2004)
- Concerto for orchestra by Alejandro Arguello (2004-05)
Goffredo Petrassi made the concerto for orchestra something of a speciality, writing eight of them since the 1930s.
