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Image by Marie Therese de Belder. Ricardo Llorca (born 1958, Alicante) is a Spanish-American Composer based in New York City since 1988. Llorca is a Juilliard School graduate and a faculty member of "The Juilliard School of Music Evening Division" since 1995.
Enrique Soro Barriga (July 15, 1884 – December 03, 1954) was a Chilean composer and pianist. He won the National Prize of Art of Chile in 1948. [1] [2]Considered one of the first Chilean symphonists, he carried out his first studies in Concepción with Clotilde de la Barra (piano) and Domingo Brescia (harmony and counterpoint).
Each movement was composed in full score, of which the composer immediately made a reduction for two pianos. The concerto had its premiere at the Great Hall of the National Theatre in Guatemala City, on 17 June 2006. The soloist was the young Costa Rican pianist, José Pablo Quesada, with the Millennium Orchestra and the composer conducting.
Reviewing a 2016 performance by the pianist Sergio Tiempo and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times called the concerto "a work of brutalist, magical realism" and wrote, "There are atmospheric and percussive moments when the score sounds slightly too much like Argentine Bartók, but there are also unusual evocations of eerie rain-forest weirdness and great thundering ...
Fantaisie for piano and orchestra (L.73/CD.72), is a composition for piano and orchestra by French composer Claude Debussy.It was composed between October 1889 and April 1890, but only received its first public performance in 1919, a year after Debussy's death.
"Piano Concerto No. 1" is a composition for piano and orchestra by the British musician Keith Emerson. It was released on the 1977 album Works Volume 1, by the progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The piece is 18 minutes long, and takes up the whole first side on the album.
While Schnittke's earlier piano concerto from 1960 and a later one for piano four-hands from 1988 adhere to the traditional concerto structure in different contrasting movements, [10] the composer wrote this concerto as a continuous single movement, [10] [6] with sections marked Moderato · Andante · Maestoso · Allegro · Tempo di valse · Moderato · Maestoso · Moderato · Tempo primo.
The piece is scored for solo piano, accompanied by string orchestra. Several recordings of the concerto have been made. The concerto is in three movements, the middle being the longest. An analysis by musicologist student Wilhelm Delport in 2015 rediscovered that the first and third movements borrow heavily from a Tyrolean Volkslied named ...