Your Top Seven Concertos

[Maciek]

Continuing the list your favorites craze, here's another one. Could you please list you seven favorite concertos for instrument(s) and orchestra? I know seven is an arbitrary number - I just decided it had to be a little less than in the symphonies thread, because I think most composers usually write slightly less concertos than symphonies (even given the various instruments).

I guess I should start the thread off by giving my list. But I just can't make up my mind yet. I'll get back to you.

Cheers,
Maciek

[dtwilbanks]

Sibelius violin
Beethoven violin
Last three Beethoven piano
Rach 3

And ... another one I can't think of right now.

[bwv 1080]

Dutilleaux - Cello Concerto
Carter - Violin Concerto
Ligeti - Piano Concerto
Bartok - Violin Concerto #2
Schoenberg - Piano Concerto
Mozart - Clarinet Concerto
Dutilleux - Violin Concerto

[not edward]

Going for the stream-of-consciousness list:

Brahms Piano Concerto #2
Lutoslawski Cello Concerto
Beethoven Piano Concerto #4
Schoenberg Piano Concerto
Berg Violin Concerto
Carter Piano Concerto
Dvorak Cello Concerto

[greg]

Prokofiev- Piano Concerto #2
Brahms- Piano Concerto #2
Prokofiev- Cello Sinfonia Concertante
Brahms- Piano Concerto #1
Prokofiev- Piano Concerto #3
Prokofiev- Piano Concerto #1
Penderecki- Cello Concerto #1


yeah, i'm predictable 

[karlhenning]

. . . I guess I should start the thread off by giving my list. But I just can't make up my mind yet.

You either, eh, Maciek? 

I'll be arbitrary, knowing that in ten minutes I'd draw up a list of seven others . . . .

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Prokofiev Second Piano Concerto
Prokofiev Second Violin Concerto
Shostakovich First Violin Concerto
Wuorinen Third Piano Concerto
Schumann Cello Concerto
Nielsen Clarinet Concerto

[orbital]

Brahms PC #1
Beethoven PC #4
Chopin PC #1
Bach Concerto for 2 violins
Schumann PC
Ravel G Major PC
Elgar Cello Concerto

[Sergeant Rock]

My seven, with today's favorite performances:


Berg Violin Concerto  Mutter/Levine/Chicago

Elgar Cello Concerto  Du Pré/Barbirolli/LSO

Saint-Saens Piano Concerto #4  Entremont/Ormandy/Philadelphia

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2  Richter/Wislocki/Warsaw Phil

Schönberg Piano Concerto  Uchida/Boulez/Cleveland

Shostakovich Cello Concerto #2  Schiff/Shostakovich/SOBR

Shostakovich Violin Concerto #1  Vengerov/Rostropovich/LSO


Sarge

[71 dB]

Something like this...

Elgar Violin Concerto
Elgar Cello Concerto
Mozart Piano Concerto 25
Haydn Cello Concerto 1
Hofmann Violin & Cello Concerto in G major (Badley G1)
Nielsen Clarinet Concerto
J. S. Bach Concerto for 3 Harpsichords BWV 1063

[Sergeant Rock]

Something like this...

Elgar Violin Concerto
Elgar Cello Concerto...

What a surprise!

No offense meant, dB. Elgar made my list too and if we'd been doing a Top Ten, Elgar's Violin Concerto would have made the cut.

Sarge

[71 dB]

What a surprise!

No offense meant, dB. Elgar made my list too and if we'd been doing a Top Ten, Elgar's Violin Concerto would have made the cut.

Sarge

Yeah, Elgar's concertos are great. What can we do? I feel bad about leaving so many concertos out (Ravel, Beethoven, ...) but seven is seven.

[quintett op.57]

top7?

chronologically (as always) :

Handel op.6 n°2
Mozart Horn concerto 1
Haydn Cello Concerto 2
Brahms PC 2
Schumann CC
Ravel PC in G 
Britten VC

Top 10 would be easier, it's painful not to include masterpieces like Beethoven Triple C or Sibelius VC

[Don]

This is a tough one.  Leaving Bach out of the equation, my picks are:

Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1
Miaskovsky Violin Concerto
Weinberg Violin Concerto
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 22
Nielsen - Violin Concerto
Brahms - Violin Concerto
Schumann - Piano Concerto

[Joe Barron]

Choosing a favorite from only one composer at a a time:

Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 2
Carter, Piano Concerto
Mozart, Piano Concerto in E-flat No. 9
Haydn, Trumpet Concerto
Nielsen, Clarinet Concerto
Bartok, Piano Concerto No. 1
Copland, Clarinet Concerto

I also love Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto, but that doesn't fit the category, since it's scored for band and not orchestra.

[Todd]

Very hard, especially given that I could name at least seven Mozart piano concertos that could fit the bill.  But:

Beethoven – Emperor
Schumann – Piano Concerto
Bartok – Piano Concerto 2
Lutoslawski – Cello Concerto
Berg – Violin Concerto
Mozart – Piano Concerto 20
Shostakovich – Cello Concerto 1

[karlhenning]

Yeah, Elgar's concertos are great. What can we do?

My list of seven this afternoon includes Elgar 

[greg]

Bartok, Piano Concerto No. 1

oh no, i forgot that one 
actually, i'd probably move the Penderecki Cello Concerto to 8th place and put this concerto somewhere in the 5th-7th spot.

[bhodges]

Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 1
Berg: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Ligeti: Violin Concerto
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
Xenakis: Erikhthon (piano concerto)

--Bruce

[AnthonyAthletic]

At the moment, the most frequent of concerti on the spinner are;

Brahms : Piano concerto no.1, Curzon/Szell/LSO
Brahms : Violin concerto, Krebbers/Haitink/Concertgebouw
Beethoven : Emperor, SBK/Davis/LSO
Elgar : Cello concerto, H. Schiff/Elder/Halle
Mendelssohn : Violin concerto, Campoli/Boult/LPO
Saint Saens : Violin concerto no.3, van Remoortel/Szeryng/Orch Nat de Monte Carlo
Shostakovich : Piano concerto no.2, Alexeev/Maksymiuk/ECO

Everything subject to change, come the next batch when I realise Kogan's Tchaikovsky, Oistrakh's Shostakovich, and a plethora of Rostropovich should've been included 

[Maciek]

top7?

Top 10 would be easier, it's painful

Yes, I was a little late in realizing that - but maybe the difficulty makes it more interesting...?

Anyway, here's what I came up with (in alphabetical order):

Chopin Concerto in E Minor
Gorecki Harpsichord Concerto
Karlowicz Violin Concerto
Kulenty Violin Concerto No. 1 (for violin with delay and orchestra)
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1
Szymanowski Violin Concerto

Two others that I would have included if not for the fact that their genre is debatable:
Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Triptych for percussion and orchestra
Lutoslawski "Violin Triptych" (Partita - Interlude - Chain 2)

And I found it EXTREMELY difficult leaving out Pawel Szymanski's Piano Concerto, Lutoslawski's Cello Concerto and the Cello Concerto No. 1 by Shostakovich. So I guess if the number had been 10, I'd have been much happier...