Thread: Your Top 20 Favorite Piano Concertos from 20th Century

Barber: Piano Concerto
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 1
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 3
Copland: Piano Concerto
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
Poulenc: Piano Concerto
Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2

Can't come up with 3 others.

Originally Posted by leonsm

Atterberg - Piano Concerto
Bax - Winter Legends
Bloch - Concerto symphonique
Bruch - Concerto for Two Pianos
Finzi - Grand Fantasie and Toccata
Garuta - Piano Concerto (splendid)
Ireland - Piano Concerto in E-flat major and Legend
Medtner – Piano Concerto no. 2
Poulenc - Piano Concerto FP 146; Concerto for two pianos and Aubade
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto no. 2 and 3
Sauer – Piano Concerto no. 1
Scharwenka: Piano Concerto no. 4 in F minor
Schnittke - Concerto for Piano and Strings
Tveitt - Piano Concerto no. 4 "Aurora Borealis"
Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras no. 3 (amazing) and Piano Concerto no. 5
Yoshimatsu - Piano Concerto "Memo Flora"

We have such similar tastes! The wonderful Sauer concerto appears to be from 1895, however his 2nd concerto (which is almost nearly as good) would qualify, being from 1901.

Originally Posted by kyjo

We have such similar tastes! The wonderful Sauer concerto appears to be from 1895, however his 2nd concerto (which is almost nearly as good) would qualify, being from 1901.

Indeed, thanks for the call, let me put Villa-Lobos - Chôros No. 11 in its place.

1. Barber
2. Rachmaninoff 2
3. Rachmaninoff 3
4. Shostakovich 1
5. Shostakovich 2
6. Ravel (G)
7. Ravel (for Left Hand Only)
8. Prokofiev 1
9. Prokofiev 3
10. Copland 1
11. Britten
12. Rautavaara 3
13. Schoenberg
14. Busoni

Adams - Century Rolls
Bartok - Piano Concertos 1 & 2
Berkeley - Concerto for Two Pianos
Dusapin - A Quia
Hanson - Piano Concerto
Harrison, Lou - Piano Concerto
Lutoslawski - Piano Concerto
Martinu - Piano Concerto 4
Petrassi - Piano Concerto
Poulenc - Piano Concertos for 1 & 2 Pianos
Prokofiev - Piano Concertos 2 & 3
Ravel - Piano Concertos in G & for Left Hand
Schoenberg - Piano Concerto
Sculthorpe - Piano Concerto
Tippett - Piano Concerto
Vaughan Williams - Piano Concerto for Two Pianos

Picking these twenty was not that difficult. Picking just ten would be a lot harder.

Originally Posted by MRJames

Adams - Century Rolls
Bartok - Piano Concertos 1 & 2
Berkeley - Concerto for Two Pianos
Dusapin - A Quia
Hanson - Piano Concerto
Harrison, Lou - Piano Concerto
Lutoslawski - Piano Concerto
Martinu - Piano Concerto 4
Petrassi - Piano Concerto
Poulenc - Piano Concertos for 1 & 2 Pianos
Prokofiev - Piano Concertos 2 & 3
Ravel - Piano Concertos in G & for Left Hand
Schoenberg - Piano Concerto
Sculthorpe - Piano Concerto
Tippett - Piano Concerto
Vaughan Williams - Piano Concerto for Two Pianos

Picking these twenty was not that difficult. Picking just ten would be a lot harder.

Great list. Thumbs up especially for the Berkeley Concerto for 2 Pianos which I think is his finest work.

1. Busoni: Piano Concerto
2. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
3. Reger: Piano Concerto
4. Roussel: Piano Concerto
5. Atterberg: Piano Concerto
6. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (the ending of the finale is my all-time favorite ending within all of classical music)
7. Veress: Hommage à Paul Klee
8. Barber: Piano Concerto
9. Szymanowski: Sinfonia Concertante
10. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4
11. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
12. Kabalevsky: Piano Concerto No. 2
13. Mignone: Piano Concerto
14. Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 3
15. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
16. Villa-Lobos: Piano Concerto No. 5
17. Tavares: Piano Concerto in Brazilian Forms
18. Guarnieri: Piano Concerto No. 2
19. Bortkiewicz: Piano Concerto No. 2
20. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5

Originally Posted by starthrower

I'll only add a few of mine that haven't been listed.

Norgard: Concerto in due tempi
Maurice Ohana
Panufnik

My post #4 has Ohana

Originally Posted by Bxnwebster

1. Busoni: Piano Concerto
2. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
3. Reger: Piano Concerto
4. Roussel: Piano Concerto
5. Atterberg: Piano Concerto
6. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (the ending of the finale is my all-time favorite ending within all of classical music)
7. Veress: Hommage à Paul Klee
8. Barber: Piano Concerto
9. Szymanowski: Sinfonia Concertante
10. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4
11. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
12. Kabalevsky: Piano Concerto No. 2
13. Mignone: Piano Concerto
14. Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 3
15. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
16. Villa-Lobos: Piano Concerto No. 5
17. Tavares: Piano Concerto in Brazilian Forms
18. Guarnieri: Piano Concerto No. 2
19. Bortkiewicz: Piano Concerto No. 2
20. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5

The Tavares was a recent discovery of mine. Sounded to me something like Saint-Saëns goes to Rio de Janeiro.

Bartok 1,2,3
Prokofiev 1,2,3
Ravel - both
Rachmaninov - Paganini Rhapsody
Stravinsky
Martinu 4,
Martinu piano & two string orchestras
Ligeti
Chavez
Lutoslawski
Shostakovich 1,2

Martinu 4 and Ligeti are two less obvious on my list so definitely going to listen to the ones onyour list I dont know