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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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The concluding work turned out to be George Lewis’ “Lonnie and Lonie,” a double concerto that found common musical ground for two uncles with opposing views of the world.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024

Until the New York Philharmonic played Charles Ives’s short, indelible “The Unanswered Question” on Wednesday at David Geffen Hall under Susanna Mälkki’s baton, I had never thought of it as a tiny double concerto.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

Still, star performers were welcomed, and they included Austrian soprano Anna Prohaska singing Mozart’s first hit, “Exsultate Jubilate,” and no less than Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Yuja Wang as the two-piano team in the double concerto.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2017

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 Lahee, Henry Charles

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