Anthony & Joseph Paratore on Jazz" and "Four By Four", originally called "Centennial Suite", when it was composed in 1949/50. A concert in 2004 juxtaposed works by Brubeck with music by Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded live. With the Bach Collegium Munich, conducted by Russell Gloyd, they played Bach's Concerto, BWV 1060, and Brubeck's "Points on Jazz" in a version with orchestra. Four the second half of the concert the Dave Brubeck Quartet joined for works such as "Brandenburg Gate", alluding to the Brandenburg concertos. In 2012, they were among the "Wegbegleiter" ("Companions along the way") of the Rheingau Musik Festival in its 25th anniversary
Piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart elevated to the most prominent position among the instruments. These works, with their alternation of orchestral "tuttis" and passages for solo display, in turn owe their structure to the tradition of Baroque operatic arias, from which the first movements of Mozart's piano concertos inherited their basic ritornello form. A similar structure can also be seen in the violin concerti of, for example, Vivaldi, who established the form, along with the three-movement concerto structure, and Viotti, wherein the concerto is divided into six sections. The keyboard parts of the concertos were almost invariably based on material presented in the ritornelli, and