Betraying my own instrument (violin), I think my favourite concerto EVER has to be Elgar's Cello Concerto... it's just so, so beautiful. I would gladly learn the cello just to be able to play that piece. My youth orchestra also did Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto last term which was fantastic. And then the violin concertos... Bruch, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Sibelius... there are so many!

Yes, an often changing topic...The Elgar concerto is definatly on of the best ever. With such a tragic melancholy, so what is your favourite recording? The one with Jaqueline Du Prés, or something else?

Daniel

Daniel

Yes, Jaqueline du Pré, but with John Barbirolli.

I just recently listened to a cello concerto I found rather interesting; it's called "elektra rising", by an African-canadian composer named Malcom Forsyth. It has some boring parts, but it has quite a few good parts too. Worth having a listen to.
It's rather hard tracking down viola concertos. I'll be listening to Schnittke's soon, I'll write here if it's any good. I'm really sorry Clarke never wrote a viola concerto, as her viola sonata and Morpheus ( both for viola and piano ) are simply some of the most stunning works ever written for viola.
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PS; Nice to see that people are posting here a little more regularly. This is my favorite classical forum but it's very slow.

Does Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra count?

Any Concerto, sure .

@karlhenning: I never came into the mood for the Shostokovich, even if Oistrakh plays...

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Ah Karl so not as much a personal friend and more of a personal dictator? For your own good of course.

Let’s see (yes, it’s a big list, and it’s filled with a lot of standards, but what can I say?):

Bartok – Yes
Beethoven – Piano Concertos
Mozart – Violin Concertos 4 & 5; Piano Concertos 14, 17, 19-27; Clarinet Concerto
Prokofiev – Piano Concertos
Elliot Carter – Piano Concerto, Concerto for Orchestra, Clarinet Concerto
Erwin Schulhoff – Concerto for Piano and small orchestra
Schoenberg – Piano Concerto
Berg – Violin Concerto
Dvorak – Cello Concerto
DSCH – Cello Concertos, Piano Concertos
Szymanowski – Violin Concertos, Symphonia Concertante
Stravinsky – Violin Concerto
Brahms – Piano Concertos
Martinu – Fourth Piano Concerto
Sibelius – Violin Concerto
Schumann – Piano Concerto

No doubt I’ve left some off.

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"The universe is change, life is opinion." Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

At the moment I like Schostacovichs' second piano concerto. Not just the famous second movement, but the first as well. When the horns come in it blows you away!

Brahms Cello Concerto. Tschaikovsky Serenade. but the best? Rach III definitely!

People always say that Elgar's Cello concerto is the best cello concerto in existance. I disagree, I think Dvorak's is just slightly better. What do you think?

Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto! Music from another world entirely! Try it on.