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ROBERTO GERHARD : Concerto for Orchestra
Sunday 25 April, 1965 – Boston, Massachusetts
BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Antal Dorati
Oxford University Press, London, 1965

“Ensemble playing, the distinguishing feature of the concerto for orchestra, in fact here takes the place of the virtuoso soloist in the traditional concerto. As a result, one of the composer's tasks is to provide such varied instances of virtuoso team-work as will show up the quality of the orchestra as an ensemble. Clearly, this takes us rather a long way from the formal pattern of the soloist concerto. Indeed, little of it remains in the design of the Concerto for Orchestra ...” – Roberto Gerhard
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