6 Favorite Piano Concertos

[Wanderer]

Superb list, Tasos --- but you do great injustice to 18.    

I do like it, it's just not as much a favourite as the others on the list. 😉

K453 and 482 may in fact be my favourite orchestral works by anyone, not just Mozart, and not just concertante.

I love them both. And I especially cherish the third movement of K453's connection with Papageno's music in Die Zauberflöte.

[bhodges]

Missed this, too, first time around, so here are six in chronological order:

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 (1901)
Scriabin - Prometheus: The Poem of Fire (1910)
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 (1921)
Bartók - Piano Concerto No. 1 (1926)
Xenakis - Erikhthon (1974)
Schnittke - Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (1979)

Honorable mention (and may not qualify, since it's more of a partnership between the piano and everyone else):
Martinů - Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani (1938)

--Bruce

[kyjo]

Impossible to narrow down to 6, so I give you 12:

Alnæs
Bartók 3
Beethoven 4
Medtner 2
Mozart 22
Paderewski
Prokofiev 3
Poulenc (C-sharp minor)
Rachmaninoff 2
Saint-Saëns 3
von Sauer 1
Tcherepnin 4 Fantaisie

[Karl Henning]

Bernstein Symphony № 2, « The Age of Anxiety »
Mennin
Prokofiev 4
Schnittke Cto for Pf & Strings
Stravinsky Cto for Pf & Winds
Wuorinen 3

Bonus:

Hovhaness Lousadzak

[vandermolen]

New list:

VW for Two Pianos
Berkeley L for Two Pianos
Bliss: Piano Concerto
Bliss for Two Pianos
Cyril Scott Piano Concerto
Bloch Concerto Symphonique

[ritter]

Sorry to resurrect this thread but I can't understand why I missed it at the time.

Mozart: 9, 18 to 27

Haydn 11
Beethoven 4
Schumann
Mendelssohn 1
Chopin 1
Chopin 2
Brahms 2
Tchaikovsky 1
Rachmaninoff 2
Rachmaninoff 3

I hope they are six.

Where did you get that engineering degree again, Andrei? 

And poor Wolfgang Amadé, first he's not included in the favourite arias, now you cross him out from the PCs list...Sic transit gloria mundi... 

[classicalgeek]

Only six? My list is rather conventional, I'm afraid - no 'off the beaten path' composers...

Beethoven 4
Brahms 1
Grieg
Mozart K466
Rachmaninov 2
Saint-Saens 5 (probably my favorite at the moment)

[Crudblud]

Schumann
Ravel - For the left hand
Schoenberg
Carter
B.A. Zimmermann - Dialoge
Liszt 1

Seems okay at first glance... I'm not a big concerto guy, and I don't find that the estimable works in the genre by some of the big names of yore necessarily hold my interest the way my favourites of theirs in other genres do. I am warming to Mozart's concerti but it's slow going.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

JSB, BWV 1056
Mennin
Hindemith
Tsintsadze, Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra
Amirov
Tveitt, Variations Hardanger

[prémont]

JSB, BWV 1056

Because of the subtile second movement, I guess.

[prémont]

My choices:

Beethoven 4
Bartok 2
Bartok 3
Beethoven 3
Brahms 2
Ravel (both hands concerto)

I don't consider JS Bach's concertos to be piano concertos.

[springrite]

Ravel
Brahms 2
Rachmaninov 2
Mozart 20 or 24
von Sauer 1
Prokofiev 3

[Mirror Image]

Let's see...today's picks (in no particular order):

Ravel: Piano Concerto for the left-hand
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Sz. 95, BB 101
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 29
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 20
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16
Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments

[kyjo]

von Sauer 1

Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well!

[André]

6 favourite Mozart concertos: 9, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27

6 favourite non-Mozart concertos:

Ravel G major
Ravel Left Hand
Brahms 1
Brahms 2
Gershwin
Carter

[Mountain Goat]

Limiting myself to one per composer:

Mozart 24
Beethoven 4
Brahms 1
Prokofiev 2
Bartok 2
Mathias 3

[vandermolen]

Limiting myself to one per composer:

Mozart 24
Beethoven 4
Brahms 1
Prokofiev 2
Bartok 2
Mathias 3

+1 for Prokofiev.

[Symphonic Addict]

All-time favorites:

Ravel for the left hand
Brahms 2
Beethoven 5
Tchaikovsky 2
Rachmaninov 2 or Penderecki's Resurrection
Martinu 4


Other less-known favorites:

Alwyn 2
Mathieu 4
Auster
Mosolov
Scharwenka 4
Schulhoff

[Cato]

Busoni: Concerto for Piano and Men's Chorus

Rachmaninov: Concertos III and (original version) IV

Alexander Tcherepnin: Second Piano Concerto

https://www.youtube.com/v/J6ZLViVk1Ic

Sergei Taneyev: Piano Concerto (Unfinished)

https://www.youtube.com/v/PQpMpxFZ_oM

Nicolai Tcherepnin: Piano Concerto

https://www.youtube.com/v/gCLiPHmUmkE

And although the word concerto is not used...

Louis Vierne: Poem for Piano and Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/v/5D6tqGomK-s

[Mountain Goat]

All-time favorites:

Ravel for the left hand
Brahms 2
Beethoven 5
Tchaikovsky 2
Rachmaninov 2 or Penderecki's Resurrection
Martinu 4

Great to see Tchaikovsky's 2nd in your list, I prefer it to the much better known 1st (I feel the same way about Bruch's 2nd violin concerto).

And although the word concerto is not used...

Louis Vierne: Poem for Piano and Orchestra

Forgot about that one! Great piece, and it is substantial enough that it could have been called a concerto.