Concerto Quotes

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.

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.

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.

There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.

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.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

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.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.