Your Top 3 Most Beautiful Violin Concertos

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Florestan

October 23, 2022, 09:43:26 AM
Not greatest, not most profound --- simply most beautiful.

My pick:

Mozart 4
Mendelssohn
Dvorak
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Brian

#1
October 23, 2022, 10:02:54 AM
Mozart 3
Barber
He/Chen Butterfly Lovers

(The only overlap with my actual list of favorites is the Barber.)

Wanderer

#2
October 23, 2022, 11:42:13 AM
Beethoven
Sibelius
Korngold


But the most beautiful concertante work for violin and orchestra must be Rimsky-Korsakov's Shéhérazade.

Symphonic Addict

#3
October 23, 2022, 02:35:20 PM
Respighi Concerto gregoriano
Moeran (or Peterson-Berger)
Szymanowski 1
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vandermolen

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October 23, 2022, 03:08:31 PM
Respighi: 'Concerto Gregoriano'
Alwyn: Violin Concerto
Moeran: Violin Concerto
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springrite

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October 23, 2022, 04:04:17 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on October 23, 2022, 03:08:31 PM
Respighi: 'Concerto Gregoriano'
Alwyn: Violin Concerto
Moeran: Violin Concerto
I like your list, and I could easily add Bax to it...
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Brian

#6
October 23, 2022, 04:41:22 PM
Korngold and Alwyn are good choices. As is Scheherazade.

Daverz

#7
October 23, 2022, 05:15:13 PM
Szymanowski 1
Sibelius
Barber

Karl Henning

#8
October 23, 2022, 05:50:18 PM
Quote from: Daverz on October 23, 2022, 05:15:13 PM
Szymanowski 1
Sibelius
Barber

Nice troika!
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Jo498

#9
October 24, 2022, 03:04:10 AM
Mendelssohn
Bach E major
Mozart 3 or 5

I'd probably replace Mozart and Bach with Brahms and DSCH #1 for the "favorites".
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relm1

#10
October 24, 2022, 05:42:31 AM
My top three are Britten, Shostakovich No. 1, Sibelius.  Bloch and Elgar are HM.

vandermolen

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October 24, 2022, 06:34:28 AM
Quote from: springrite on October 23, 2022, 04:04:17 PM
I like your list, and I could easily add Bax to it...
Thanks! I must listen to the Bax again.
+1 from me for Barber and also Glazunov/Miaskovsky.
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Irons

#13
October 25, 2022, 06:54:13 AM
Bit shocked to read the comment that the music of Saint-Saens is unmemorable recently. The 3rd Violin Concerto is beautiful with a sublime slow movement. My favourite Beethoven piece is his VC. For the third I need to think.
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Jo498

#14
October 26, 2022, 12:26:56 AM
I'd have almost named Saint Saens #3. The spelling of the others was easier, so I disregarded it. The Saint-Saens b minor seems to have been more popular in the mid-20th century than now. It's not fallen as deeply as Weber's piano Concert piece or Franck's Symphonic variations but certainly moved to the margins a bit.
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LKB

#15
October 26, 2022, 02:17:56 AM
I don't know that many violin Concerti, maybe six. Of those l do know:

Brahms
Bruch
Tchaikovsky
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Lisztianwagner

#16
October 26, 2022, 03:05:15 AM
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Schönberg
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foxandpeng

#17
October 26, 2022, 05:31:37 AM
Peteris Vasks - Distant Light
Barber - VC
Pettersson - VC2

Today, at least. I suspect Vasks has longevity against any of the others dipping in and out, mind.
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Florestan

#18
October 26, 2022, 08:17:43 AM
Today's pick:

Mozart 5
Wieniawski 1
Khachaturian
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vandermolen

#19
October 30, 2022, 01:06:24 AM
Quote from: relm1 on October 24, 2022, 05:42:31 AM
My top three are Britten, Shostakovich No. 1, Sibelius.  Bloch and Elgar are HM.
Great choices! The Britten is a comparatively recent discovery for me + 1 for DSCH and Bloch as well.
I also like those by Malcolm Williamson and David Morgan.
"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).
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