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 various individual instruments or sections in the orchestra, with emphasis on instruments changing during the piece.
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.
Goffredo Petrassi made the concerto for orchestra something of a speciality, writing eight of them since 1933. He finished the last one in 1972.
The Concerto for Orchestra is an orchestral composition by the Polish-American composer Stanisław Skrowaczewski. Though originally composed in 1983 and premiered in the mid-1980s, Skrowaczewski later reworked the composition. It was first performed in its revised form on November 19, 1998 in Philadelphia by the orchestra of the Curtis Institute of Music. The revised piece was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Composition
The Concerto for Orchestra has a duration of roughly 30 minutes is composed in two movements:
Martin Cotton of BBC Music Magazine lauded the composition, writing, "The Concerto for Orchestra is the expected display piece only in the first of its two movements, and the orchestra provides the necessary sparkle, but it also responds to the deeper substance of the long Adagio, subtitled 'Bruckner's Heavenly Journey'. Here the long-breathed string lines and cushioned brass writing pay tribute to the Austrian symphonist, while the harmonies and use of percussion place the music firmly in the 20th century."
The Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123, is a five-movement musical work for orchestra composed by Béla Bartók in 1943. It is one of his best-known, most popular and most accessible works. The score is inscribed "15 August – 8 October 1943". It was premiered on December 1, 1944, in Symphony Hall, Boston, by the Boston Symphony Orchestraconducted by Serge Koussevitzky. It was a great success and has been regularly performed since. It is perhaps the best-known of a number of pieces that have the apparently contradictory title Concerto for Orchestra. This is in contrast to the conventional concerto form, which features a solo instrument with orchestral accompaniment. Bartók said that he called the piece a concerto rather than a symphony because of the way each section of instruments is treated in a soloistic and virtuosic way.
Composition
The work was written in response to a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation (run by the conductor Serge Koussevitzky) following Bartók's move to the United States from his native Hungary, which he had fled because of World War II. It has been speculated that Bartók's previous work, the String Quartet No. 6 (1939), could well have been his last were it not for this commission, which sparked a small number of other compositions, including his Sonata for Solo Violin and Piano Concerto No. 3. Bartók revised the piece in February 1945, the biggest change coming in the last movement, where he wrote a longer ending. Both versions of the ending were published, and both versions are performed today.
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Béla Bartók:
Konzert für Orchester ∙
I. Introduzione. Andante non troppo – Allegro vivace 00:00
II. Giuoco delle coppie. Allegro scherzando 10:37 ∙
III. Elegia. Andante non troppo 17:16 ∙
IV. Intermezzo interrotto. Allegretto 24:53 ∙
V. Finale. Pesante – Presto 29:24 ∙
hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony ∙
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Dirigent ∙
Alte Oper Frankfurt, 9. Juni 2017 ∙
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Béla Bartók:
Konzert für Orchester ∙
I. Introduzione. Andante non troppo – Allegro vivace 00:00
II. Giuoco delle coppie. Allegro scherzando 10:37 ∙
III. El...
Béla Bartók:
Konzert für Orchester ∙
I. Introduzione. Andante non troppo – Allegro vivace 00:00
II. Giuoco delle coppie. Allegro scherzando 10:37 ∙
III. Elegia. Andante non troppo 17:16 ∙
IV. Intermezzo interrotto. Allegretto 24:53 ∙
V. Finale. Pesante – Presto 29:24 ∙
hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony ∙
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Dirigent ∙
Alte Oper Frankfurt, 9. Juni 2017 ∙
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Béla Bartók:
Konzert für Orchester ∙
I. Introduzione. Andante non troppo – Allegro vivace 00:00
II. Giuoco delle coppie. Allegro scherzando 10:37 ∙
III. Elegia. Andante non troppo 17:16 ∙
IV. Intermezzo interrotto. Allegretto 24:53 ∙
V. Finale. Pesante – Presto 29:24 ∙
hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony ∙
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Dirigent ∙
Alte Oper Frankfurt, 9. Juni 2017 ∙
Website: http://www.hr-sinfonieorchester.de ∙
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Concerto for Orchestra, Movement V, "Finale"
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Performed by André Previn and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
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Listen and follow along with our B&H Study Score Video featuring the official publisher's score of the Finale Movement of Béla Bartók's "Concerto for Orchestra."
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Concerto for Orchestra, Movement V, "Finale"
Composed by Béla Bartók
Performed by André Previn and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Courtesy of Telarc / Concord
Album available here: http://bit.ly/ConcertoForOrchestraAlbum
#BHStudyScores
Béla Bartók:
Konzert für Orchester ∙
I. Introduzione. Andante non troppo – Allegro vivace 00:00
II. Giuoco delle coppie. Allegro scherzando 10:37 ∙
III. Elegia. Andante non troppo 17:16 ∙
IV. Intermezzo interrotto. Allegretto 24:53 ∙
V. Finale. Pesante – Presto 29:24 ∙
hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony ∙
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Dirigent ∙
Alte Oper Frankfurt, 9. Juni 2017 ∙
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Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116 · Béla Bartók · Česká filharmonie/Vladimír Válek
Bartók: Orchestral Works
℗ 1981 SUPRAPHON a.s.
Released on: 1991-01-01
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Listen and follow along with our B&H Study Score Video featuring the official publisher's score of the Finale Movement of Béla Bartók's "Concerto for Orchestra."
Scores, Sheet Music & Merchandise available from The Shop at Boosey.com
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Concerto for Orchestra, Movement V, "Finale"
Composed by Béla Bartók
Performed by André Previn and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Courtesy of Telarc / Concord
Album available here: http://bit.ly/ConcertoForOrchestraAlbum
#BHStudyScores
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