Concerto Quotes
There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.
Evelyn Glennie
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.
Itzhak Perlman
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.
Nigel Kennedy
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
Alfred Schnittke
The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.
George Shearing
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
Leila Josefowicz
At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
Andre Boucourechliev
You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.
Itzhak Perlman