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As if to compensate, on a drizzly Sunday evening in Kyiv, a crowd gathered in the street beneath an apartment building’s third-floor balcony to hear a makeshift string quartet play concertos.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 2026

"There's so many strings in there that can wander out of tune, especially when you're playing big piano concertos," Terry explains.

From BBC Jun. 21, 2025

Phil, Chin’s 2014 Clarinet Concerto and a pair of Brahms concertos.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2025

The composer Olga Neuwirth doesn’t tend to call her works anything as straightforward as symphonies or concertos.

From New York Times Apr. 21, 2024

Many of Wolfgang’s childhood compositions, such as the first seven of his concertos for piano and orchestra, are largely arrangements of works by other composers.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell