Your favorite Mozart piano concerto

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Christo

#20
November 14, 2016, 03:00:07 PM Last Edit: November 14, 2016, 03:02:43 PM by Christo
Quote from: Gordo on November 14, 2016, 02:48:11 PM
+1
Coupled with Beethoven's number 3, and played by Richter. The opening strings are so dramatic...
Even more so if they sound completely unexpected:
https://www.youtube.com/v/n89F9YKPNOg
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Mahlerian

#21
November 14, 2016, 03:03:39 PM
Quote from: Scarpia on November 14, 2016, 02:14:09 PM
I like KV503 (C-major, #25), and also KV537 (D-major, #26, "Coronation") although every CD I have every owned of it was accompanied by linear notes saying it was among Mozart's duds.

It's not a bad work, I just find it weaker than the other Viennese concertos.
"l do not consider my music as atonal, but rather as non-tonal. I feel the unity of all keys. Atonal music by modern composers admits of no key at all, no feeling of any definite center." - Arnold Schoenberg

Archaic Torso of Apollo

#22
November 14, 2016, 03:06:51 PM
Quote from: SharpEleventh on November 14, 2016, 02:10:58 PM
No votes for no. 22 yet? I'm not completely sure if it is my number one favorite but it is a candidate certainly.

If I had to choose just one today, that might be it. But if you ask me tomorrow, it might be No. 20.
formerly VELIMIR (before that, Spitvalve)

"Who knows not strict counterpoint, lives and dies an ignoramus" - CPE Bach

Wakefield

#23
November 14, 2016, 03:08:41 PM
Quote from: Christo on November 14, 2016, 03:00:07 PM
Even more so if they sound completely unexpected:
https://www.youtube.com/v/n89F9YKPNOg

Thanks for sharing this! I love Maria João Pires and hated to see her with that guy of ridiculous wig.  >:D
"Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different."
- Almost Famous (2000)

Christo

#24
November 14, 2016, 03:17:11 PM
Quote from: Gordo on November 14, 2016, 03:08:41 PMThanks for sharing this! I love Maria João Pires and hated to see her with that guy of ridiculous wig.  >:D
Mozart, you mean?  8)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Wakefield

#25
November 14, 2016, 03:37:43 PM
"Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different."
- Almost Famous (2000)

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#26
November 15, 2016, 01:12:02 AM
16 and 22 are particular favourites of mine

Jo498

#27
November 15, 2016, 01:19:55 AM
Fortunately, it was rehearsal only.
There are several stories about violinists who had the instrument neatly tucked unter the arm when they realized with the first notes of the orchestra that they were supposed to play the Mendelssohn concerto and had about half a bar to get into it...
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

Chronochromie

#28
November 15, 2016, 10:36:23 AM
16, 20, 23, 24 and 27.

Keep Going

#29
November 17, 2016, 04:12:37 AM
Choosing only one is ridiculous.

But I'd probably pick the 18th in B-flat major. An underrated masterpiece, with a particularly sublime slow movement.

Jay F

#30
November 18, 2016, 01:00:51 PM
Today it is #21.

Jay F

#31
November 21, 2016, 09:58:42 AM
Today it is #26, by Murray Perahia.

Jay F

#32
November 21, 2016, 11:07:27 AM
Right now, it is #17, second movement (andante).

Ken B

#33
November 21, 2016, 11:08:57 AM
Quote from: Jay F on November 21, 2016, 11:07:27 AM
Right now, it is #17, second movement (andante).
More creeping Mirror Imagery!
:laugh:

Jay F

#34
November 21, 2016, 11:12:37 AM
Quote from: Ken B on November 21, 2016, 11:08:57 AM
More creeping Mirror Imagery!
:laugh:

Is #17 his favorite? I don't see him in this thread (not that I'd recognize him since he's all about Shostakovich this week).  :D

Ken B

#35
November 21, 2016, 11:36:31 AM
Quote from: Jay F on November 21, 2016, 11:12:37 AM
Is #17 his favorite? I don't see him in this thread (not that I'd recognize him since he's all about Shostakovich this week).  :D
It's was your third favorite in three posts. Not quite John territory, but once you get up to 7 or 8 ...  ;)

BasilValentine

#36
November 21, 2016, 11:36:41 AM
My favorite is 23 in A major K488. My favorite movements are the opening movements of 20 in D minor K466 and 24 in C minor K491 but I find variation finales horribly tedious and anticlimactic.

Jay F

#37
November 21, 2016, 01:06:30 PM Last Edit: November 21, 2016, 01:10:25 PM by Jay F
Quote from: Ken B on November 21, 2016, 11:36:31 AM
It's was your third favorite in three posts. Not quite John territory, but once you get up to 7 or 8 ...  ;)

Ahh. Now I get it. But I preceded my changes by saying in Reply #16 that my favorite changes constantly. It really does seem to be whichever Mozart PC I'm listening to at the moment:

Quote from: Jay F on November 14, 2016, 01:55:18 PM
I like 27/595 most today, but I shall return to like something else tomorrow.

Right now it's #20.

SharpEleventh

#38
December 10, 2016, 04:09:16 AM
At the moment

Shared 1st place: 9, 20, 22, 23, 26 (that 26 is the weakest of the late PCs is just a meme)
Shared 2nd place: 17, 24, 25, 27

André

#39
December 10, 2016, 10:43:12 AM
# 9 has always been my firm favourite. I used to have a vinyl of Igor Kipnis playing it on the harpsichord with a group conducted by Neville Marriner. Brilliant ! AFAIK it's never been issued on cd. It was coupled with Haydn's D major concerto (with the rondo all'ungarese finale).

Then # 24, 21, 23, 22, 17, 20, 19, 18, 25. The exact order is kind of blurred  :D
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