Top 10 Favorite VCs

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I really should bump Glass and add Walton.

I've never heard the Glass. Time to do a little Youtubing...

[Sergeant Rock]

I wonder if that was the one they broadcast...?  What I remember from that broadcast was that Ms. Chung's tone was so powerful that in a number of places she swamped the orchestra!

Cleveland concerts were broadcast nationally back then. So, yeah, it might have been that concert you heard. I do believe, though, that program was taken to several cities, including, possibly, Pittsburgh too. It was a tour celebrating Walton's 70th birthday. He was in the audience; came out for a bow at the end of the evening.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

No, it was the Tchaikovsky that we share as a favourite.  Do you ever listen to Schumann's music?   

I do listen to Schumann, but rarely listen to the Violin Concerto.

Sarge

[Jo498]

I don't think Schumann had become too sick or mad to compose but I find the relative obscurity of his violin concerto non entirely undeserved. Although as with many other "re-discovered" pieces everybody seems to be loving that piece now...

[Mirror Image]

The Korngold Violin Concerto is starting to really take ahold of me. There's more depth here than I realized before. Favorite performance of this concerto right now: Ehnes/Tovey.

[Brahmsian]

The Korngold Violin Concerto is starting to really take ahold of me. There's more depth here than I realized before. Favorite performance of this concerto right now: Ehnes/Tovey.

Love that Concerto, and performance.  Got to hear Ehnes perform it live a number of years ago. 

[Mirror Image]

Love that Concerto, and performance.  Got to hear Ehnes perform it live a number of years ago. 

Yes, indeed, Ray. Who was the conductor/orchestra whenever you saw Ehnes?

[Brahmsian]

Yes, indeed, Ray. Who was the conductor/orchestra whenever you saw Ehnes?

My Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, with WSO conductor Alexander Mickelthwate. 

[Mirror Image]

My Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, with WSO conductor Alexander Mickelthwate. 

Very nice. Do you remember what the rest of the program was per chance (just out of curiosity)?

[Brahmsian]

Very nice. Do you remember what the rest of the program was per chance (just out of curiosity)?

Hah!  I know you have had a love/hate affair with Richard Strauss.   

A pair of Strauss works (Also Sprach Zarathustra and Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks) accompanied the Korngold Violin Concerto.  The concert was in the Fall of 2008.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

The Korngold Violin Concerto is starting to really take ahold of me. There's more depth here than I realized before. Favorite performance of this concerto right now: Ehnes/Tovey.

It is a gorgeous work. I loved it instantly.

[violinconcerto]

If you need more information on the topic, I could recommend my gratuitous encyclopedia e-book "The 20th century violin concertante" from my website www.tobias-broeker.de.

And if you have questions about recordings or specific works, just frop me a line.

Best,
Tobias

[Mirror Image]

Hah!  I know you have had a love/hate affair with Richard Strauss.   

A pair of Strauss works (Also Sprach Zarathustra and Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks) accompanied the Korngold Violin Concerto.  The concert was in the Fall of 2008.

I certainly didn't like Strauss much back then but I do now of course. I'm sure that was a good concert. Love those two works as well.

[Brahmsian]

This is tough!  In alphabetical order:

Beethoven
Brahms
Glazunov
Korngold
Mozart 5
Schumann
Shostakovich 1
Sibelius
Stravinsky
Tchaikovsky

The only changes I might consider is adding Prokofiev 1 and Britten to this list.  However, I don't think I could remove anything from it.

Top 5 faves in approximate order:

Sibelius
Shostakovich 1
Tchaikovsky
Schumann
Stravinsky

[kyjo]

Let's try again:

Alwyn
Barber
Glazunov
James Newton Howard ()
Karlowicz
Khachaturian
Korngold
Shostakovich no. 1
Sibelius
Walton

[Dima]

The only one concerto that I can call great is Kchachaturian violin concerto.
I have not heard such great concerto for violin any more...

In Russian music I single out also Anton Rubinstein's violin concerto.
In Western music - Mendelssohn e minor and Ferdinand Reis violin concerto.

Sibelius concerto in it's first version is a unique and interesting work, it's a pity that he made the revision.

[vandermolen]

List No.2

Alwyn
Pettersson No.2
Williamson
Shostakovich No.1
Barber
David Morgan
Miaskovsky
Bloch
Peterson-Berger
Britten

[SymphonicAddict]

Shostakovich 1st
Korngold
Tubin 1st
Bacewicz - 4th or 5th
Penderecki 1st
Brahms
Respighi Concerto gregoriano
Finzi
Castelnuovo-Tedesco 1st (or the 2nd)
Szymanowski 1st

Honorable mentions for Sibelius, Janacek, Goldmark, Beethoven, Nielsen and Bartok 2nd

[Christo]

Barber
Respighi, Concerto gregoriano
Janáček
Brian
Moeran
Tubin No. 2
Khatchaturian
Shostakovich No 1
Taktakishvili No. 2
Rodrigo, Concierto de Estio

Still OK. 

[vandermolen]

Shostakovich 1st
Korngold
Tubin 1st
Bacewicz - 4th or 5th
Penderecki 1st
Brahms
Respighi Concerto gregoriano
Finzi
Castelnuovo-Tedesco 1st (or the 2nd)
Szymanowski 1st

Honorable mentions for Sibelius, Janacek, Goldmark, Beethoven, Nielsen and Bartok 2nd

Oh, I should have chosen Respighi's Concerto Gregoriano - a lovely work which, when I first heard it on the radio, thought must be by Finzi. Castelnuovo-Tedesco's 'Prophets' violin concerto is another inspired choice.