Concertos for the weirdest instruments?

[Spatula]

Concertos for the more exotic or less highly profiled instruments?

Can you imagine a concerto specifically for these instruments? :

Banjo
Electric Guitar
Triangle
Clap Board
Precussion (Timpani cymbals etc)
Singing (not including operas)
Clapping (musicians clap with orchestral accompliment)
Bag Pipe
Accordian
Xylophone

etc etc etc

now those are concertos that I'll be cautious about.

And get this! Dude I never knew about such things as a "piano concerto"...wow now that's exotic isn't it?

[brewtality]

Yngwie Malmsteen has recorded a concerto for electric guitar. I haven't heard it myself but i would assume that it would be very virtuostic and very classically influenced. I think Steve Vai has also recorded with an orchestra.

[BoliverAllmon]

don't forget recorder concertoes.

[pseudopianist]

Yngwie Malmsteen has recorded a concerto for electric guitar. I haven't heard it myself but i would assume that it would be very virtuostic and very classically influenced. I think Steve Vai has also recorded with an orchestra.

I got it.

It is called Concerto Suite in Eb flat minor

Now what the f*ck is a Concerto Suite?
It is on 6 tracks or 6 movments (if you wanna call it that)

I was really impressed by it but he play the scale up and down and over again. The orchstera is not doing that much tho.

[Nightscape]

I wonder if George Crumbs "Ancient Voices of Children" (sp?) would count as a voice concerto... the singer has to do some pretty crazy, virtuostic things that I cant imagine a person doing with their voice.

[mosis]

Malmsteem *** owns. He has a piece called "Cavallino (sp?) Rampante," and it's him playing guitar over an entire orchestra. Absolutely beautiful.

[sharon_f]

Reinhold Gliere composed a wonderful Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Ralph Vaughn Williams composed a terrific Tuba Concerto. And the last movement of the sublime Busoni Piano Concerto includes a male chorus.