Concert for orchestra
Concerto for orchestra is the title of various musical works. Although a concerto is usually a musical work for one or more solo instruments juxtaposed with the orchestra , various composers have written works called Concerto for Orchestra , which at first glance appears to be a contradiction in terms. This title is usually chosen to emphasize the soloistic and virtuoso treatment of orchestral instruments.
The name only appeared in the 20th century, when the composers considered it important to give each instrument an obligatory function, for the first time in Hindemith (1925). So one cannot say that a concerto for orchestra is a symphony with a different name, it can even have a chamber music character (cf. Arnold Schönberg , Kammersinfonie op. 9 ).
A related musical genre in the Baroque and Classical periods is the Sinfonia concertante .
The most famous Concerto for Orchestra is that of Béla Bartók (1943), although the title was used several times before this work.
Works
- Concerto for Orchestra op.38 by Paul Hindemith (1925)
- Concerto for orchestra by Fidelio F. Finke (1932)
- Concerto for orchestra by Walter Piston (1933), partly based on Hindemith's concerto
- Concerto for orchestra by Zoltán Kodály (1939–40)
- Concert for orchestra (based on Red Army themes) by Richard Mohaupt (1942–43)
- Concerto for orchestra by Béla Bartók (1943)
- Concerto for String Orchestra by Alan Rawsthorne (1949)
- Concerto for orchestra by Witold Lutosławski (1950–54)
- Concerto for orchestra by Michael Tippett (1962–63)
- Concert for orchestra by Havergal Brian (1964)
- Concerto for orchestra in one movement, Op. 112 by Siegfried Borris (1964)
- Concerto for orchestra by Robert Gerhard (1965)
- Concerto for orchestra by Thea Musgrave (1967)
- Concerto for orchestra by Elliott Carter (1969)
- Concerto for orchestra with obbligato piano by Ernst Hermann Meyer (1974)
- Concerto for orchestra by Anthony Payne (1974)
- Concert for orchestra by Roger Sessions (1979–81)
- Concerto for orchestra by Karel Husa (1986)
- 1st concert for orchestra by Steven Stucky (1986-87)
- Concerto for orchestra by Leonard Bernstein (1989), revised version by Jubilee Games for orchestra and baritone (1986)
- Concerto for Orchestra by Joan Tower (1991)
- Concerto for orchestra by Stanisław Skrowaczewski (first performance 1998)
- Boston Concerto by Elliott Carter (2002)
- Concerto for orchestra by Jennifer Higdon (2002)
- Concerto for orchestra by Magnus Lindberg (2003)
- 2nd concert for orchestra by Steven Stucky (2003)
- Goffredo Petrassi has written eight concertos for orchestra since the 1930s.
- Rodion Shchedrin has written five concertos for orchestra since the 1960s.