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Headscratcher #1
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:29 am
by Starrmark
How many piano concerti can you name that begin with solo timpani?
MS
Re: Headscratcher #1
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:19 pm
by wurlitzer153
Well, there's Beethoven's piano transcription of his violin concerto...
Re: Headscratcher #1
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:14 pm
by el_supremo
The only one that comes to mind is the obvious one - Grieg's.
Pete
Re: Headscratcher #1
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:09 pm
by sbeckmesser
Strauss' Burleske both starts, and ends, with solo timpani. While not strictly a whole concerto, it is treated like one by record companies and piano soloists. It has been mentioned in the "solo endings" thread I started.
--Sixtus
http://imslp.org/wiki/Burleske_(Strauss,_Richard)
Re: Headscratcher #1
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:22 am
by Starrmark
There's also a PC by Britten -- but it is not PD.
MS