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double concerto

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noun

  1. a concerto for two solo instruments

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Had someone been paying attention, however, Ma and Sollima might have been invited to play Sollima’s double concerto, “Antidotum Tarantulae XXI,” which the two cellists premiered with the Chicago Symphony two years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2016

And a double concerto — for violin, piano and chamber orchestra — awaits orchestration.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2015

He played a Mendelssohn concerto, a Beethoven concerto and the Brahms double concerto for violin and cello, his bow gliding effortlessly as it sliced through the madness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2005

You could argue that the Brahms double concerto is not about size and feeling at all.

From Washington Post

On his first appearance, at the Bach festival at Eisenath, he played with Joachim the Bach double concerto, and was very successful.

From Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday by Henry Charles Lahee

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