Your Top Seven Concertos

[Steve]

Ah, where to begin... 

Brahms, Violin Concerto
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1
Dvorak, Cello Concerto
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5
Sibelius, Violin Concerto
Elgar, Violin Concerto

71db, I've been revisiting much of Elgar's concertos in the past few weeks, and I'm amazed with what I've discovered in his violin concerto.

[Sergeant Rock]

Yes, I was a little late in realizing that....So I guess if the number had been 10, I'd have been much happier...

Hoisted by your own petard, eh, Maciek? 

Sarge

[George]

Elgar Cello concerto

Beethoven PC4, PC5

Rachmaninov PC2, PC3

Barber PC

Mozart PC 20

[rubio]

There are so many concertos I haven't heard yet, but these are lovely anyway:

Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2
Bach, Concerto for Violin and Oboe in D Minor
Schumann, Piano Concerto
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 3
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23
Haydn, Cello Concerto No. 1

[BachQ]

brahms pc 1
rach pc 3
mozart pc 20
liszt totentanz
sibelius vc
wieniawski vc 2
bach piano concerto in d minor

[Mozart]

Hmmm...

Mozart pc 17,20,24, sinfonia concertante
Brahms PC 1, double concerto
Mendelssohn VC e

[George]

brahms pc 1
rach pc 3
mozart pc 20
liszt totentanz
sibelius vc
wieniawski vc 2
bach piano concerto in d minor

Are they all in d minor? 

[BachQ]

Are they all in d minor? 

actually ........ YES!

[George]

actually ........ YES!

Coincidence? (be honest)  0:)

[SimonGodders]

Beethoven VC
Shostakovich VC (1st)
Tchaikovsky PC (1st)
Sibelius VC
Dvorak Cello
Rachmaninoff PC (2nd)
Rachmaninoff PC (3rd)

[BachQ]

Coincidence? (be honest)  0:)

honestly ......... it was a deliberate, calculated act on my part to list only d minor compositions .........

[Harry Collier]

Off the top of my head:

Shostakovich violin concerto No.1
Elgar violin concerto
Wieniawski violin concerto No.2
Beethoven piano concerto No.4
Mozart piano concerto K 488
Goldmark violin concerto
Korngold violin concerto

Probably another 20 more.

[AB68]

Brahms' second piano concerto
Shostakovich' second cello concerto
Elgar's cello concerto
Beethoven's fifth piano concerto
Tchaikovsky's violin concerto
Mozart's twentyfourth piano concerto
Prokofiev's second violin concerto

[George]

honestly ......... it was a deliberate, calculated act on my part to list only d minor compositions .........

I figured as much. 

[Steve]

brahms pc 1
rach pc 3
mozart pc 20
liszt totentanz
sibelius vc
wieniawski vc 2
bach piano concerto in d minor

Rachmaninoff's 3rd over the 2nd? Interesting.... 

[not edward]

Rachmaninoff's 3rd over the 2nd? Interesting.... 

Just to throw a bit of oil on the fire, the 2nd is my least favourite of the four.

[BachQ]

Rachmaninoff's 3rd over the 2nd? Interesting.... 

........ Rach 3 is awesome, actually .........

[Larry Rinkel]

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).

Another way you can handle this is to increase the number of symphonies to 14 1/2, and then you can have them list their favorite 10 concertos.

[Maciek]

Hoisted by your own petard, eh, Maciek? 

Sarge

Couldn't have put it better, Sarge.

Another way you can handle this is to increase the number of symphonies to 14 1/2, and then you can have them list their favorite 10 concertos.

Great idea! That would solve the problem!

Maciek

[BachQ]

Brahms PC 1
Brahms PC 2
Brahms VC
LvB PC 4
Proko PC 3
LvB PC 5
LvB VC