His work is notable for its deft orchestration and a wide variety of featured instruments, including harp, zither, dulcimer, bouzouki, glockenspiel, and guitars.
Still, with the violin as the evening's featured instrument, classical music had most of the spotlight.
The piece is one of the most popular such concerti in the repertoire, as well as often being found on recordings dedicated otherwise to either one of its featured instruments.
Mozart legitimized the clarinet both in his symphony orchestrations and in the three great works he wrote for it as a featured instrument.
But since the classical guitar is its featured instrument, its full realization in performance depends on a kind of virtuosity that few instrumentalists besides the composer could command.
Shank's alto is the featured instrument.
The album is unusual in having the oboe as a featured instrument in a jazz-rock setting.
The musical glue holding it all together is Mark Isham's electronic score played by a sextet, the Raincity Industrial Art Ensemble, with Mr. Isham's solo trumpet the featured instrument.
After that, it was decided to alter the format to feature saxophone ; and from 1996y, to rotate the featured instrument every year.
The featured instruments, as it were, floating up to the top in the music's many quiet passages, are spun-sugar instruments: harp, celeste, clavichord.