I've just heard my favourite Mozart piano concerto - anyone heard No. 20 in D minor? Glorious! Absolutely glorious!

Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, and his 3rd piano concerto.

Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"

Especially the epicly beautiful middle movement, which has been featured in several films (including the assassination of richard nixon with sean penn)

Vivaldi's Winter I guess...I didn't play many concerto's in my short lifetime!

Depending on my mood it could be the Brahms piano concertos, Beethoven's 4th piano concert, but maybe if I had to pick one, the one I listen to the most is possibly the Schumann piano concerto, not the greatest but a wonderful, wonderful work & witht he likes of Agerich playing possitively spell binding.
Denis

This thread works as a recommendations section, too. Thanks! since I haven't heard too many concertos.

I heard Sibelius' violin concerto very recently. Highly moving work that unleashes the instrument in its rawness and its technical demand.

My current favourite is the Organ Concerto in G minor by Tomaso Albinoni.

Right now, the concerto I'm really enjoying is the Barber violin concerto. It's absolutely gorgeous!
Also, I love the Sibelius and Mendelssohn violin concertos, the Schumann piano concerto, and both of the Elgar concertos.

I prefer the old Concerto Grosso for its orchestral conversations as opposed to virtuosic show-off pieces. The most famous Concerto Grosso is "The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi. Arcangelo Corelli 12 concerto grossi op.6 is also very masterful aswell as Goerg Federick Handel's. Alfred Schnittke who died in 1998 of Heart Disease causing a terminal stroke also wrote in this form. His Concerto grosso no.1 and no.5 are very disturbing yet at times very impassionatly romantic with its sudden and unexpected climaxes i. e. (no.1)
(Kremer violinist DG label)

Favourite concertos, and favourite recordings:

Piano:

1. Beethoven "Emperor" (Emil Gilels/Leopold Ludwig)
2. Beethoven 4th (as above)
3. Schumann (Murray Perahia/Colin Davis)
4. Mozart 20 (Ashkenazy)
5. Brahms 2 (Richter/Chicago SO)

Violin/Cello

1. Beethoven (Perlman/ Giulini/ Philharmonia)
2. Mendelssohn (Heifetz/ Boston SO)
3. Brahms (Nathan Milstein/ Pittsburg SO)
4. Tchaikovsky (Vengerov/ Abbado/ BPO)
5. Schumann Cello (Stephen Isserlis)

Other

1. Mozart Clarinet (Karl Leister/ Karajan)
2. Beethoven Triple (Oistrakh, Rostropovich, Richter)
3. Mozart Horn Con 3 (Dennis Brain)
4. Brahms Double (Heifetz/ Reiner)
5. Bach Brandenburg 2 (Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert)



Topaz

Tchaik/Sibelius/Barber/Mendelssohn/Shostakovich Violin Concertos
Shostakovich No 1/Dvorak/Saint Saens/Elgar Cello Concertos
Bottesini no 2/Larsson Bass Concertos
Tchaik Piano Concerto
Schoenberg Concerto for String Quartet

Schnittke 'Monolouge' for viola (Bashmet)
Bach A major English horn concerto (Abbhül)
Hindemith violin concerto (Oistrakh)
Gubaidulina bassoon concerto (Popolov)
Unknown (attributed to Haydn) C major oboe concerto (Holliger)
Bartók piano concerto no. 1 (Kovacevich)

My favourite piano concertos are:

Poulenc's Concerto For Two Pianos
also Poulenc's Piano Concerto
Gershwin's Piano Concerto
Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2

also a mention to Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Ravel : Piano concerto in G
Haydn : Cello concerto 2
Sibelius : Violin concerto
R.Strauss : Burleske
Concerto is not my favourite genre.

Since I play the Clarinet(I also play the violin, which im betraying right now), I'll have to say my favorite concerto is Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. One of the best clarinet pieces out there!