6 Favorite Piano Concertos

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FelixSkodi

I stupidly forgot to print my thread (was actually going to do that this weekend), so I'm hoping some of y'all will repost.

1. Shostakovich 1 and 2
2. Bartok 2
3. Massenet
4. Glanville-Hicks
6. Yardumian

Sergeant Rock

Saint-Saens 4
Mozart 21
Beethoven 5
Prokofiev 2
Brahms 1
Rachmaninoff 2

Bonus: Bach D minor played by Gould, Bernstein conducting
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MusicTurner

#2
Schumann - Argerich,Harnoncourt
Busoni - Donohoe,Elder
Medtner 3 - Ponti,Cao
Prokofiev 4 - Krainev,Kitayenko,MosRSO
Messiaen Des Canyons aux Etoiles - for example Loriod,Constant
Nørgård In Due Tempi - so far there's only one recording, Salo,Segerstam

Just maybe; tried to do a favourite list, with a lot of stylistic & atmosphere variation, for the 'Desert Island'.

But of course, I also like standard ones by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Ravel, Bartok, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, S-Saens, Rachmaninov, Shosty, etc. etc.

amw

#3
K453 (Zacharias/Lausanne? Anderszewski/SCO?)
K482 (Tipo/Jordan? Anda/Salzburg?)
K595 (Tipo/Jordan? Fischer/Fricsay?)
K271 (Anda/Salzburg? Tipo/Chailly?)
K491 (Fischer/EMI? Curzon/Kubelík? Anderszewski/Warsaw?)
K503 (Kraus/Simon? Dalberto/Erato?)
K456 (Zacharias/Lausanne? Tan/McGegan?)
K450 (Levin/Hogwood? Helmchen/Nikolić?)
K467 (Anda/Ančerl? Tipo/Jordan? Son/Marriner?)
K466 (Tipo/Chailly?)
K488 (Pletnev/Bremen? Fischer/EMI?)
K537 (Levin/Hogwood? Zacharias/Lausanne?)
Beethoven No.3 (Lupu/whoever? Serkin/Ormandy?)
K451 (Anda/Salzburg?)
Alkan Concerto for solo piano (Hamelin/Hyperion? Hamelin/Music & Arts?)
Beethoven No.4 (Serkin/Ormandy? Edwin Fischer/Music & Arts?)
Beethoven No.5 (Bronfman/Zinman?)
K415 (Levin/Hogwood?)
K414 (Levin/Hogwood?)
Dussek Op.49 (Staier/Concerto Köln)
K449 (Anda/Salzburg? Levin/Hogwood?)
Beethoven No.1 (Serkin/Ormandy? Bronfman/Zinman?)
K459 (Haskil/Fricsay? Pires/Jordan?)
K413 (Levin/Hogwood?)
Schumann (Melnikov/Heras-Casado? Fischer/EMI?)
Beethoven No.2 (undecided)
Brahms No.1 (Kovacevich/Davis? Serkin/Szell? Anda/Jochum?)
Bartók No.1 (Pollini/Abbado? Kocsis/Fischer?)
Bartók No.2 (Kocsis/Fischer? Pollini/Abbado?)
Stravinsky Movements (Beroff/Ozawa?)

Beyond this point there are so many piano concerti competing for my attention that I find it difficult to pick any one over any other one, so I aborted the exercise there.

Total Rafa

#4
The previous 6 are somewhere in this longer list:

Beethoven 2, 3, 4, 5
Mozart 9, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25
Rautavaara 1, 3
Poulenc, for 2 pianos
Martinu, for 2 pianos
Prokofiev 2
Brahms 2
Tchaikovsky 1, 2
Schumann
Grieg
Saint-Saens 2
Glass 1
Dohnanyi 2
de Falla, Noches en los jardines de España
Rachmaninov 2, 3
Shostakovich 2
Liszt 2

vers la flamme

Brahms 2
Mozart 23
Rachmaninov 2
Ravel G major
Prokofiev 3
Bartók 3

relm1

1. Puts' Concerto "Night", a very fine dramatic modern piano concerto. 
2. Shostakovich No. 2
3. Prokofiev No. 2
4. Rachmaninoff No. 2
5. Vaughan Williams for 2 pianos
6. Bax: Concertino

kyjo

#7
My choices are generally pretty unconventional ;)

Alnæs
Atterberg
Poulenc (C-sharp minor)
Rachmaninoff no. 2
Saint-Saëns no. 1
Sauer no. 1

And, finally, my guilty pleasure: the incredibly delightful concerto of Leroy Anderson ;D
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Christo

Lennox Berkeley, Concerto for two pianos and orchestra
Falla, Noches en los jardines de España
Ravel in G.
Saint-Saëns No. 5 'Egyptian'
Barber
Vaughan Williams
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vandermolen

#9
Berkeley L: Concerto for Two Pianos
VW: Double Piano Concerto
Bliss: Piano Concerto
Chisholm: PC No.1 'Pìobaireachd'
Bate: PC No.2
Cyril Scott: PC No.1
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'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Symphonic Addict

Bartók - No. 2
Boeck - Piano Concerto in C major
Mosolov - No. 1
Pizzetti - Canti della Stagione Alta
Prokofiev - No. 3
Tchaikovsky - No. 2

The Chisholm is a great choice, Jeffrey.
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Brian

Roughly in order so you can stop reading after 6 if you want.

Ravel for left hand
Tchaikovsky - No. 2
Grieg
Beethoven - No. 5
Liszt - No. 2
Szymanowski "sinfonia concertante"
Ravel in G
Tchaikovsky - Concert Fantasia
Saint-Saëns - No. 5
Poulenc - two pianos
Prokofiev - No. 3
Poulenc - one piano
Rautavaara - No. 3
Beethoven - No. 1
Massenet
Paderewski
Ireland

Love seeing Massenet on Philo's list, Alnæs on Kyle's, and Alkan on amw's. (Have you heard Paul Wee yet?) Is Glass 1 adapted from The Hours? I like that one.

Maestro267

Huh. I coulda sworn I posted six of my favourites in here. Must've got lost when the system failure happened. I can't remember exactly what I submitted.

vandermolen

Merikanto's 3rd Piano Concerto is another fine work.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

relm1

I forgot Penderecki's Piano Concerto, a very fine late romantic style work.

kyjo

Quote from: Philoctetes on May 22, 2020, 04:33:46 PM
I stupidly forgot to print my thread (was actually going to do that this weekend), so I'm hoping some of y'all will repost.

1. Shostakovich 1 and 2
2. Bartok 2
3. Massenet
4. Glanville-Hicks
6. Yardumian

Interesting choices! I assume the Glanville-Hicks is the Etruscan Concerto? An enjoyable work, if I recall. Don't know the Massenet or the Yardumian yet.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

kyjo

Quote from: relm1 on May 24, 2020, 06:03:19 AM
1. Puts' Concerto "Night", a very fine dramatic modern piano concerto. 
2. Shostakovich No. 2
3. Prokofiev No. 2
4. Rachmaninoff No. 2
5. Vaughan Williams for 2 pianos
6. Bax: Concertino

The Bax Concertino was a really wonderful discovery of mine - a substantial, brooding, and atmospheric work which I prefer to any of his other concertante works. Graham Parlett's orchestration sounds so characteristically Baxian that I would've never guessed it wasn't completed by the composer himself!
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

kyjo

#17
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on May 24, 2020, 03:02:14 PM
Bartók - No. 2
Boeck - Piano Concerto in C major
Mosolov - No. 1
Pizzetti - Canti della Stagione Alta
Prokofiev - No. 3
Tchaikovsky - No. 2

The Chisholm is a great choice, Jeffrey.

Interesting choices! The Pizzetti was a lovely recent discovery of mine with its deeply inspiriting ending (to use a Jeffrey phrase ;)). I found the Mosolov to be not very much to my tastes, but I'll have to give it another go. I'm not familiar with the Boeck.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

arpeggio

#18
Another that I can not come up with just 'x' number of favorites.  Most of my favorites have been mentioned.

Some that have not been mentioned so far:

Carter
Schoenberg
Chavez
Ginastera #2
Mennin
Gershwin
Britten
Menotti

vandermolen

#19
Here's my non Anglo-centric choices!

Bartok: No.3
Merikanto: No.3
Prokofiev: No.2
Rachmaninov: No.4
Martinu: No.4 'Incantation'
Saint-Saens: No.2

+ Bloch: Concerto Symphonique
Both by Zara Levina
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).