Concertos Quotes

When you think of Mozart's piano concertos, you think of them as masterpieces. He invested so much in them, since he wrote these for himself to play. - Robert Walzel

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background. - Twyla Tharp

This is one of the best concertos ever written for bassoon. Beauty of sound, beauty of technique. It was written early 19th century. It's still popular, still great music. - Arnold Irchai

The piano concertos contain some of his beautiful writing. - Robert Walzel

That's why he wrote so many piano concertos. - David Ferris

In celebrating Shostakovich, it's difficult to decide which works not to do. I've decided on two concertos ? the one for cello that Giora conducts and the First Piano Concerto. - Michael Christie

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting. - Leila Josefowicz

I was so little inspired by violin instruction at the Guildhall School that I kept in the cloakroom a volume of concertos edited by Joachim, which I would retrieve before my lesson and read in class. And that would be my lesson for the day. - William Primrose

I try to get the personality of the person involved. I like writing concertos because I can tailor the works like a good suit of clothes, to show off the things they do well and that they show off. - Jennifer Higdon

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos. - Oscar Peterson