Feel free to discuss all sorts of concertos here: good, bad; old, new and for every instrument.
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Concertos
Feel free to discuss all sorts of concertos here: good, bad; old, new and for every instrument.
I just bought the Itzhak Pearlman/Chicago Symphony recording of Brahms' Violin Concerto, probably the best recording of it out there in my opinion. Too bad Pearlman (and Stern for that matter) did all that silly whining about playing under Karajan...an unfortunate black mark on an otherwise glorious career.
"When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all the world seems to walk in blindness, and yet a man works without wearying for that which he loves...only in this moment is passion truly understood." - Franz Schubert, 1827
Concertos
Tchaikovsky's Piano concerto No. 1 is the peak of all concertos.
Tchaikovky's Violin Concerto.
Tchaikovsky's second and third piano concertos are also worth listening to.
Anton Stepanovich Arensky's Piano concerto is another gem.
Then, Rachamninov's First, second and third piano concertos.
Rimsky Korsakov's Piano concerto
Chopin's two piano concertos
Beethoven's violin, piano and triple concerto
Brahms' violin, two pianos' and double concerto
Bach's Violin and double violin concertos and harpsichord concerto bwv 595
Mozart's any violin or piano concertos and his horn and flute and harp concertos
Handel's harp concerto
Haydn's trumpet concerto
Mendelssohn's violin concerto....
going down to Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and violin concertos
Prokofiev's Violin and piano concerti
Shostakovich's Violin concertos.,
Ernst Bloch wrote an excellent violin concerto.
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