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	Piano concerto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A piano concerto is a concerto for solo piano and orchestra.
		Concertos for the harpsichord were written throughout the Baroque era, notably by Johann Sebastian Bach (see list of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach for a list).
		Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto Series A project to record and reassess the work of Romantic composers whose contributions to the development of the piano concerto (in some cases entire careers) have been neglected or forgotten.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano_concerto (736 words)

	Piano Concerto (Barber) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Piano Concerto, Op 38, by Samuel Barber was commissioned by the music publishing company G.
		John Browning was the intended soloist from the outset and the concerto was written with his specific keyboard technique in mind.
		The work was met with great critical acclaim with Barber winning his second Pulitzer Prize in 1963 and the Music Crtics Circle Award in 1964.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Barber) (321 words)

	Classical Net Review - Barber - Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, etc.
		Barber reached his public and critical height in the Forties, when he consciously began to assimilate neo-classicism into his style.
		Barber, a piano player, nevertheless mastered string writing practically off the dime, with his Op.
		Barber asked Browning to play through his repertoire and was especially struck by the pianist's Chopin and Rachmaninoff.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/s/sny60004a.html (1377 words)

	Cello Concerto, Op. 22
		The Piano Concerto was composed for John Browning and specifically for the celebratory opening week of New York's Lincoln Center in September 1962, on which occasion Browning performed it with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
		In composing both the Cello Concerto and the Piano Concerto, Barber sought to tailor the music to the personality of the respective dedicatees; to this end he asked Garbousova to play almost her entire repertory for him, so that he might acquaint himself with her performing style and her natural affinities.
		Until fairly recently, this "middle concerto" of Barber's, although superbly tailored to the character of the cello itself, has had few such dedicated advocates, and it is only now beginning to catch up with the popularity of this earlier one for the violin and his later one for the piano.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2859 (522 words)

	Amazon.com: Samuel Barber: Symphony No. 1/Piano Concerto/Souvenirs: Music: Samuel Barber,Leonard Slatkin,St. Louis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Piano Concerto was itself premiered by John Browning, who had considerable input on the work, along with a last-minute suggestion in the final movement from the great Vladimir Horowitz that allowed a human being to actually play it.
		Barber's composition is thrilling and gripping in both I and II, while III and IV (note that it is a one mov't work divided into four parts)have Barber's trademarks of lyricism and power.
		Certainly Barber doesn't lavish the same lyrical affection on the piano that he did on the violin or the cello in his respective concerti for those instruments; by design, the piano concerto does not exploit the piano as a vehicle for showy display.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003F3J?v=glance (1422 words)

	BARBER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		With this release, Marin Alsop and the Royal Scottish Orchestra have recorded Barber’s four concertos for solo instruments, although the Capricorn Concerto is yet to come – a 20th-century concerto grosso for flute, oboe, trumpet and strings.
		The piano concerto, begun in 1960 but not completed until 1962, is both his most extroverted and technically daunting work for soloist and orchestra, despite a contemplative slow movement (Canzone: Moderato) originally composed in 1959 as an Elegy for flute and piano.
		It was Barber’s last major work before the debacle in 1966 of his opera Antony and Cleopatra, which opened the new Met at Lincoln Center – a failure he never completely recovered from during the remaining years of his life (1910-81).
	classicalcdreview.com /sbpcnaxos.htm (462 words)

	Classical Net Review - Barber - Piano Concerto, Medea, Adagio
		The concerto demands athletic power from the soloist as he negotiates trickily angular and motoric passages, particularly in the last movement.
		Barber started work on a ballet based on the Medea story around 1946, but he tinkered with the music for more than a decade; this excerpt – really a condensed version of material from an earlier ballet suite – was premiered in 1956 by the New York Philharmonic.
		Ultimately, though, Barber's reverence to the melodies seems to have prevented him from leaving too many fingerprints on the score, and the result is a little bland.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/n/nxs59133b.html (514 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Unlike Gould or Bernstein, Browning's association with Barber was with a living composer, and it was a fruitful collaboration for both artists.
		Barber, who is best known for his Adagio for Strings and Violin Concerto, was in the audience that evening, and the performance inspired him to write his Piano Concerto especially for Browning.
		The Piano Concerto was awarded the Pulitzer Prize that year and has become the most played American piano concerto in the past half-century.
	www.lawrence.edu /sorg/lawrentian/issue/cxvi/18/browning.html (498 words)

	NPR: Performance Today -- Live in Studio 4A -- Pianist John Browning
		Browning reflects on the Haydn Sonata and on the premiere of Barber's Piano Concerto in the early 1960's.
		Born in Denver in 1933, John Browning began piano studies at age five and gave his first public appearance as soloist with the Denver Symphony at age ten.
		Browning was chosen to give the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony at the inaugural celebration of New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
	www.npr.org /programs/pt/4a/browning.html (1233 words)

	Records International catalogue October 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		1 and 2, Intermezzo for Viola and Piano, Violin Sonata, Improvviso for Violin and Piano.
		The little piano works included here are rarities, which turn up in different guises elsewhere in the composer's output, or were written to commission, showing the composer's originality in a different field altogether, in his ingenious recreations of Moravian peasant dances, full of unexpected twists and turns and harmonic surprises.
		Begoña Uriarte and Karl-Hermann Mrongovius (pianos), Eduard Brunner (clarinet), Bamberg Symphony; Hans Stadlmair.
	www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogOct98.html (11710 words)

	Amazon.com: Samuel Barber: Piano Concerto; Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance: Music: Samuel Barber,Marin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Barber's music is killed in this "performance", the rhythmical figures are completely disstorted and there's clear that pianist and orchestra are almost never together, they're both guessing.
		This concerto was written for John Browning and he has played it literally hundreds of times over the past four decades; he has recorded it several times.
		The sound is also very clear and lifelike, although in the Concerto the piano, as mentioned, seems a bit spotlighted, which may not be all bad.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006GO4C?v=glance (1280 words)

	Samuel Barber - Piano Concerto [HC]: Classical CD Reviews- Nov 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		It was written for John Browning who gave the first performance and made the first recording of the work This recording was first released on the EPIC label during the LP era and reissued years later on CBS/SONY.
		In any case, Medea — in any guise — is one of Barber’s major works in which he considerably enlarged his musical and emotional palette and in which he wrote some of his darkest and most violent music.
		The present release ends with the rousing Commando March composed in 1943 when Barber was already busy working on his Second Symphony, and originally scored for wind band, but heard here in the orchestral version made by the composer.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Dec02/barber.htm (697 words)

	IHAS: Composer
		Young Sam studied piano at six, began composing at seven, served as a church organist while still in his teens, and developed his attractive baritone voice to the point where he entertained the thought of becoming a professional singer.
		Barber composed a wide range of stage, orchestral, chamber, piano, choral, and vocal works in what he unassumingly insisted was a personal style "born of what I feel..I am not a self-conscious composer." His discipline and use of traditional forms earned him the reputation of a classicist.
		Virgil Thomson once wrote that Barber was laying to rest the ghost of Romanticism without violence, though in light of the composer's lush lyricism, deft dramatic sense, and inclination toward Romantic poetic sources (especially in his vocal writing), this comment ultimately proved to be off-mark.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/ihas/composer/barber.html (1053 words)

	BARBER - MP3, lyric, tabs
		Barber Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Canzone Moderato
		Howard Hanson Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Allegro molto mitmi
		Howard Hanson Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Andante molto espre
	cooking.erp-volga.com /free_music/BARBER.html (215 words)

	Classical Pianist Jon Kimura Parker - Recordings
		Brahms: Quartet for violin, viola, cello and piano in G minor, Op.25 (41:36)
		Yoel Levi, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, with Barber Violin Concerto, Op.
		Parker is not just commanding in the daunting bravura passages, he finds tender poetry in such reflective passages as the return of the second subject in the first movement and in his warm and velvety playing of the central Canzone."
	www.kimura.com /recording.html (374 words)

	Basics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Fauré - Ballade for Piano and Orchestra, Op.
		Franck - Chorale, Prelude and Fugue for Piano
		Schubert - Piano Sonatas in B-flat, D. Schubert - Piano Sonata in A, D. Schubert - Piano Sonata in D, D. Schubert - Piano Sonata in G, D. Schubert - Piano Trios 1 and 2, Opp.
	www.ecsel.psu.edu /~bruce/basics.htm (555 words)

	Classical Net Review - Barber - Piano Concerto, Medea, Adagio
		Most American music aficionados are aware that Samuel Barber (1910-81) composed this 1960 Piano Concerto for pianist John Browning, then one of the rising stars on the American scene, with only Van Cliburn a clearly bigger name among native pianists.
		In fact, this work must be ranked among the finest piano concertos by an American composer.
		Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance (from Barber’s ballet, Medea) received a splendid recording from around 1960 when Charles Munch conducted his Boston Symphony Orchestra in the work for RCA, which was coupled with the Prokofiev Second Piano Concerto, performed by his niece, Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (who dropped nearly half the big first-movement cadenza!).
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/n/nxs59133a.html (509 words)

	FAQ: rec.music.classical
		Bach, for instance, is catalogged with BWV numbers (Bach Werke Verzeichnis, "Bach work catalog"), etc. Handel, however, published some of his work in collections called opera (that's the Latin plural for "Opus" and has a meaning entirely different from the word meaning sung musical drama).
		Thus a Concerto Grosso of Handel might be referred to as Opus 3 No. 3, but will still have an HWV number.
		Sticking with Handel as example, Organ Concerto #13 is also known as "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale," and as HWV 295.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/music/classical-faq (4205 words)

	aworks :: "new" american classical music: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 38 (1962). Samuel Barber
		In her book on Samuel Barber, Barbara Heyman suggests the work "marks the high point in Barber's career." In a review of the Naxos recording, Robert Cummings says it is "masterful" but suffers from too much thematic repetition.
		Mark Kanny reports the slow movement has been transcribed for flute and was recently performed by Timothy Hutchins and the Pittsburgh Symphony, and was reminiscent of Maurice Ravel.
		And Walter Simmons asserts that while Barber's individual works get recognition, overall, he is not well understood as an American composer due to the (misguided) focus on Charles Ives and John Cage.
	rgable.typepad.com /aworks/2004/02/concerto_for_pi.html (374 words)

	Sheet Music Plus - Piano Concerto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Dmitri Shostakovich: Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op.
		102 for Piano and Orchestra For piano duet (2 pianos...
		Johann Sebastian Bach: 6 Partitas For solo piano (or harpsichord...
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/item.html?item=973784&id=79590 (79 words)

	Sheet Music Plus - Concerto (2-piano score) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Maurice Ravel: Concerto in G for Piano and Orchestra (Concerto en sol pour Piano et Orchestra) For 2 pianos...
		Igor Stravinsky: Three Early Ballets - The Firebird, Petrushka, The Rite Of Spring For solo piano...
		Sergei Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3 In D Minor, Op.
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/item.html?item=3153158&id=79590 (84 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Robert McDuffie delivers a satisfyingly heartfelt rendition of Barber's Violin Concerto, one that brings to light many of the score's beauties.
		Jon Kimura Parker offers a sharply focused, intense reading of the Piano Concerto, and while his does not have the authoritative air of dedicatee John Browning in his recording with Leonard Slatkin, Parker compensates with a youthful daring absent from the elder statesman's later reading.
		Barber's Souvenirs appears here in its full orchestra version (Browning and Slatkin recorded the two-piano original on their RCA disc), allowing us to delight in these whimsical dances from an enlarged perspective.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=3226 (202 words)

	Yamaha Keyboards, Musical Keyboards, Guitars, Drums from AndysMusicOnline.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Piano Concerto (Schoenberg A) Kammersymphonie (Schoenberg A) American Festival Overt(Schuman)
		Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, Op.
		Concerto for Bass Tuba (Instrumental / Piano / Tuba) - Tuba and Piano
	www.andysmusiconline.com /ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=HL50331420 (190 words)

	eBay - cd piano concerto, CDs, Sheet Music, Song Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Concerto No2 in D for Flute and Piano (with CD) NEW
		Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 classical CD 1 CENT
		Grieg Peer Gynt Piano Concerto Thomas Beecham + CD
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=cd+piano+concerto&... (414 words)

	piano concerto - OneLook Dictionary Search
		We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word piano concerto:
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	www.onelook.com /?w=piano+concerto&ls=a (119 words)

	NewMusicbox Sitemap
		Barber's 1963 Pulitzer Prize-winning piano concerto is the cornerstone of this new recording from Naxos, but the three other pieces that are played here by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra are a testament to Barber's mastery of symphonic composition.
		Die Natali uses Christmas carols as a point of departure for a sentimental tone poem.
		Finally, the Commando March is a fierce yet short work written and premiered during World War II.
	www.newmusicbox.org /st_result.nmbx?id=43st26 (106 words)

	Music Favorites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb; A Ceremony of Carols; Piano Concerto
		Prokofiev - Piano Concertos #1 and 2; Alexander Nevsky; solo piano
		Rachmaninoff - Piano Concertos (all four); Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Symphony #2; Sonata #2 (original); Prelude in C# minor
	home.earthlink.net /~wagneric/music_faves.html (437 words)

	Samuel Barber - Piano Concerto [IL]: Classical CD Reviews- Oct 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Samuel Barber’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, completed in 1962, while not as popular or as consistently melodic as the composer’s Violin Concerto (although the slow movement is haunting enough), nevertheless is strongly individualistic and is regarded as having marked the zenith of Barber’s public acclaim.
		It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1963 and the Music Critic’s Circle Award in 1964.
		Naxos’s fine Samuel Barber series continues with another attractive album, this time of rather less familiar works played with style.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Oct02/Samuel_Barber_PianoConcerto.htm (441 words)

	Classical Pianist Jon Kimura Parker - What the Critics Say
		The chiseled octaves and powerful chords in the opening cadenza were a harbinger of things to come, though Parker has a gift for nuance, too; the yearning sighs of the second movement were delivered patiently, affectionately."
		His micro- shadings elicited magic from the piano to fill every niche in Abravanel Hall...
		"Jon Kimura Parker used the piano stool as a biking seat, racing forward and, at times, standing up to transform the piano into his "handlebars" as he headed into the sunset."
	www.kimura.com /review2.html (1010 words)

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