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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 ensemble has built a reputation on nurturing new works on the scale of concertos and symphonies; 65 of those were led by Langrée during his directorship.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2023

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