double concerto

noun

1. a concerto for two solo instruments

Example Sentences

Even with what limited time she has, Chase is seen by fellow musicians as thoroughly committed — whether performing Felipe Lara’s Double Concerto on tour with Esperanza Spalding or revisiting the “Density” repertoire.

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A double concerto adds two soloists to the orchestra, and the Ives has five: four flutists and a trumpeter.

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It’s a kind of double concerto, then, in which two solo forces have a relationship to one another and to the main ensemble.

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Felipe Lara’s sensational Double Concerto, exuberant if not always sunny, had its New York premiere on Wednesday after the Ives.

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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.

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