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Title: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: USMC1960s on August 03, 2016, 02:37:43 PM
Your top 5 or 10. How many you list is not important to me, I would like to know which are your favorites.

Thanks very much, in advance.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Ken B on August 03, 2016, 02:50:14 PM
Quote from: USMC1960s on August 03, 2016, 02:37:43 PM
Your top 5 or 10. How many you list is not important to me, I would like to know which are your favorites.

Thanks very much, in advance.

Most.  ;)

In a pinch, 23, 24, 20, 21.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: TheGSMoeller on August 03, 2016, 05:31:49 PM
Now here's a real poll. We should follow this one with favorite Top 5 Fav Mozart Works!

But for PCs...

9 "Jeunehomme", 20*, 22**, 23,

*Features arguably the greatest of any movements given the title Romance
**Features arguably the greatest movement from anything Mozart ever composed.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Archaic Torso of Apollo on August 03, 2016, 05:53:45 PM
Boringly conventional list from me: 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 & 27

Quote from: TheGSMoeller on August 03, 2016, 05:31:49 PM

**Features arguably the greatest movement from anything Mozart ever composed.

Which of the 3 superb mvts. of #22 are you referring to here?
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: TheGSMoeller on August 03, 2016, 06:05:28 PM
Quote from: Archaic Torso of Apollo on August 03, 2016, 05:53:45 PM
Boringly conventional list from me: 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 & 27

Which of the 3 superb mvts. of #22 are you referring to here?

Hmm...Ill go with the 3rd mvt.  :)
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Archaic Torso of Apollo on August 03, 2016, 06:12:17 PM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on August 03, 2016, 06:05:28 PM
Hmm...Ill go with the 3rd mvt.  :)

If I had to name a single greatest mvt. from the late Mozart PCs, I'd probably go with the slow mvt. of #23 (which is also the only piece he ever wrote in F# minor).

But hey...that's just me  :)
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Brian on August 03, 2016, 06:13:01 PM
Is it bad that I know I love 22, 23, 25, and one of 26 or 27 dearly, but can never remember which is which? No such problem with 20, 21, and 24, though of those three, I think only 20 and 21 would make my top five. Question is trying to remember which three of the others make it.

I really need to spend some time with that glorious Robert Casadesus box which dominated my listening back in 2012.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: amw on August 03, 2016, 06:32:09 PM
9, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27
(or, if you prefer: 271, 450, 453, 466, 467, 482, 488, 491, 503, 595)

In order of favourites it would be 27, 15, 17, 25, 24 and then the rest. Probably.

I would say 27 is not only my favourite Mozart piano concerto but also my favourite work by Mozart period. That said, the existence of the String Quintet K. 516 poses somewhat of a challenge to that statement.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Jo498 on August 03, 2016, 11:10:36 PM
K 491 c minor
K 453 G major
K 271 E flat major
K 482 E flat major
K 499 A major
K 595 B flat major
K 466 d minor
K 459 F major
K 456 B flat major
K 503 C major

It would be easier to list the ones I don't much care for: K 537, the double/triple concertos, K 413, K 451, the early ones, of the first three my favorite is K 175 but K 271 is so much better than the early stuff, that one can almost skip them.
I am also not as fond of the famous K 467 as most other people seem to be.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: king ubu on August 03, 2016, 11:13:04 PM
KV 491, easily - the other minor one (KV 466) is dear to me as well, but all in the 460 to 491 range are, generally I guess the higher the KV number, the dearer to me ...
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: ComposerOfAvantGarde on August 04, 2016, 12:02:10 AM
I haven't listened to much Mozart but I do love 5, 6, 7, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 27. 22 and 16 are probably my two favourites at the moment.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Florestan on August 04, 2016, 02:36:02 AM
I love all of them, and I mean all, but 9, 20, 21, 24 and 25 are the top 5 for me.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: ComposerOfAvantGarde on August 04, 2016, 02:39:30 AM
Quote from: Florestan on August 04, 2016, 02:36:02 AM
all
does that include 1-4?
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Florestan on August 04, 2016, 02:42:10 AM
Quote from: jessop on August 04, 2016, 02:39:30 AM
does that include 1-4?

Yep.They're not very original, I know, but peaches nonetheless.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Jo498 on August 04, 2016, 04:18:18 AM
1-4 are literally not very original as they are pastiches of pieces by other composers (sonatas or whatnot) the child Mozart turned into concerto movements, probably as some kind of exercise.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Florestan on August 04, 2016, 06:00:12 AM
Quote from: Jo498 on August 04, 2016, 04:18:18 AM
1-4 are literally not very original as they are pastiches of pieces by other composers (sonatas or whatnot) the child Mozart turned into concerto movements, probably as some kind of exercise.

Right. But the genius child turned everything he touched into gold.  8)
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Sergeant Rock on August 04, 2016, 06:54:53 AM
I'm with Florestan...love 'em all but keeping my list to five.

17 G major K.453
20 D minor K.466
21 C major K.467
22 E flat K.482
25 C major K.503

Bonus movement: the Adagio in F sharp minor of 23

Sarge
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: North Star on August 04, 2016, 08:45:09 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on August 04, 2016, 06:54:53 AM
I'm with Florestan...love 'em all but keeping my list to five.

Bonus movement: the Adagio in F sharp minor of 23

Sarge
Yeah, right. 0:)

20, 22, 23, 24, 27
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Wanderer on August 05, 2016, 04:30:35 AM
Top 5*:

15
20
21
22
24


-continuing for the top 10*:

5
6
9
16
23

-continuing for the top 15*:

17
18
25
26
27


*(not in order of preference)

Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Sergeant Rock on August 05, 2016, 07:29:17 AM
Quote from: Wanderer on August 05, 2016, 04:30:35 AM
Top 5*:

-continuing for the top 10*:


-continuing for the top 15*:




Why stop there? Give us your Top 27!  ;D

Sarge
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: springrite on August 05, 2016, 07:50:04 AM
23
24
20
15
17
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: USMC1960s on August 05, 2016, 10:21:25 AM
Please feel free to list your favorite 5 or 10 or 20. The more the better. I remember a poll some time ago where the members did not want to be asked to list too many works in a certain category, so I arbitrarily limited it to 5....but certainly I would welcome input along the lines of 20 or 30 or NO limit! Thank you in advance, as always.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Wanderer on August 05, 2016, 01:30:05 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on August 05, 2016, 07:29:17 AM

Why stop there? Give us your Top 27!  ;D

Sarge

That would be too much information.  0:)
Title: Re: Your Favorite Mozart Piano Concertos
Post by: Jay F on August 05, 2016, 06:39:16 PM
22

20

27

21

23