Bruch: violin concerto #1
Shostakovich: violin concerto #1
Sibelius: violin concerto
Rubbra: viola concerto
Bowen: viola concerto
Dvorak: cello concerto
Elgar: cello concerto
Shostakovich: cello concerto #1
Brahms: double concerto
Mozart: sinfonia concertante for violin and viola

 

Rubinstein Piano Concerto No 4. Will always be my favorite concerto.
Rubinstein Piano Concertos 1, 2 3 and 5
Hubay Violin Concertos 1 and 4
Stenhammar Piano Concerto No 1
Raff Violin Concerto 1 and 2
Raff Piano Concerto
Medtner Piano Concerto 1 and 3
Dvorak Cello Concerto. The best for Cello
Martucci Piano Concerto 1 and 2
Scharwenka Piano Concerto 2 and 4
Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano
Moszkowski Piano Concerto
Busoni Piano Concerto

 

I definitely like Alkan, Stenhammar, Scharwenka, and Busoni too

 

In no particular order:

Beethoven Piano Concerto 4
Khachaturian Violin Concerto
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos 2, 3
Shostakovich Piano Concerto 2
Elgar Cello Concerto
Kabalevsky Violin Concerto
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Sibelius Violin Concerto

 

I will disregard the bazillion baroque concertos I like. I'll stick with later types, solo instruments with large orchestra. I seem to lean toward piano concertos. Let's see, in no order:

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5
Beethoven - Piano concerto No. 4
Beethoven - Violin Concerto (in a piano concerto setting)
Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No. 1
Schumann - Piano Concerto in A minor
Rubenstein - Piano Concerto No. 5 in Eb (this seems to be loaded with famous melodies I had never heard).
Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2

 

so many concertos I love.. these are in no particular order.

prokofiev piano concerto no. 3

ravel concerto for the left hand

bruch violin concerto in g minor

bach violin concerto in a minor

sibelius violin concerto

prokofiev violin concerto no.1

rachmaninov piano concerto no.4

walton violin concerto

lutolawski cello concerto

bach harpsichord concerto in f minor

 

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Alkan COncerto da Camera
MOzart Piano concerto No. 21 KV 467
Grieg Piano COncerto


Those are the only concertos I know well enough at the moment.

 

I could copy my list from 10 Favourite Piano Concertos thread. None of non-piano concertos comes close to them in my favourites ranking.

 

J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Boccherini - Cello Concerto in D major
J.C. Bach - Concerto in D major
Mozart - Violin Concerto no. 5
Haydn - Concerto for Two Lire Organizzate
Beethoven - Violin Concerto
Brahms - Double Concerto for Cello, Violin and Orchestra
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
Khachaturian - Violin Concerto (not sure about this one actually, but I just haven't heard an awful lot of concertos, but I'm definitely happy with my other choices)

 

Ginastera - Piano Concerto No. 2
Dutilleux - Cello Concerto
Lutoslawski - Cello Concerto
Penderecki - Cello Concerto No. 1
Hovhaness - Cello Concerto
Bartok - Piano Concerto No. 1
Sculthorpe - Piano Concerto
Henze - Violin Concerto No. 1
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 1
Poulenc - Organ Concerto

Didn't quite make it: Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No. 1; Vivaldi - Guitar Concerto; Flute & Guitar Concerto; Ravel - Piano Concerto in G; Shostakovich - Cello Concertos 1 & 2; Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1; Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4; Walton - Viola Concerto; Dohnanyi - Violin Concerto No. 2; Rubbra - Violin Concerto; Villa-Lobos - Guitar Concerto; Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2; Brahms - Double Concerto, Piano Concerto No. 1; Haydn - Piano Concerto in D; Sibelius - Violin Concerto; Rozsa - Viola Concerto; Myaskovsky - Cello Concerto; Prokofiev - Sinfonia Concertante...

 

1. Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante (cello)
2. Ravel concerto in G (piano)
3. Kraft (timpani)
4. Shostakovich #1 (violin)
5. Lutoslawski (cello)
6. Beethoven triple concerto (violin, cello, piano)
7. Britten Cello symphony (cello)
8. Weber #1 (clarinet)
9. Dutilleux (cello)
10. Rachmaninoff #2 (piano)

 

Oh my... difficult.

Mozart - Piano # 20
Mozart - Clarinet
Brahms - Violin
Dvorak - Cello
Bach - Harpsichord BWV 1052
Bach - Double violin in D-minor
Telemann - Trumpet (really Oboe) in F-minor
Tchaikovsky - Piano #1
Tchaikovsky - Violin
Katchaturian - Violin

So many more... Though there's more to discover.

 

What about 'concertos for orchestra,' Bartok (of course), Kodaly (the first one ever to be composed, but somewhat neglected), Lutoslawski (2nd most popular), & Elliot Carter (probably the most complex one so far)...

& another one which I think people dismiss as difficult (but it's wonderful, especially in Hilary Hahn's hands): Schoenberg - Violin Concerto.

 

from what I can remember now, in no particular order:

Mendelssohn - violin concerto in Em
Bruch - violin concerto in Gm
Paganini - violin concerto no.2 in Bm "la campanella"
Tchaikovsky - violin concerto in D
Chopin - Piano concerto no.1
Grieg - piano concerto in Am
Spohr - Violin concerto no.8 in Am - Hilllary Hahn
Yngwie Malmsteen - Concerto suite for Electric guitar
Butterfly Lover Violin concerto by Chen Gang & He Zhan-hao 1959
Gershwin - Piano concerto in F

 

Okay, here's mine. But not necessarily in numerical order except for #1

1: Dvorak: Cello Concerto in b minor
2: Brahms: Concerto #1 in d minor for piano and orchestra
3: Ravel: Concerto in D for Left Hand (piano)
4: Rachmaninov: Concerto #1 in f# minor for piano and orchestra
5: Brahms: Concerto in D for Violin and orchestra
6: Beethoven: Concerto #4 in G for piano and orchestra
7: Korngold: Concerto in C# for piano (left hand) and orchestra
8: Barber: Piano Concerto
9: Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D
10: Prokoviev: Concerto #3 in C Major for piano and orchestra

This was DIFFICULT, honing it down to just 10, LOL!

Tom

 

This was DIFFICULT, honing it down to just 10, LOL!

Tom

Yep, that's why I made the thread. You can better tell the preferences of people when they make the harder choices.

 

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Elgar: Violin Concerto
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

 

4.Alkan- 10 Concertos for Solo Piano.
7.Roslavets- Cello concerto, Violin concerto, and Choral Concerto.

I´m seriously, seriously mystified by this; didn´t Alkan write only one for solo piano
(or is it that his only one is felt like 10 ? And didn´t Roslavetz make two violin
concerti (a second has recently been issued) - but no cello concerto, and no choral
concerto, whereas Rachmaninov made a Choral Concerto ? Correct me if I´m wrong,
since these composers interest me ... Are some of the titles found in a biographical article,
since they haven´t been recorded, or have you been a bit absent-minded/talking to their spirits ?

Nice and surprising that Medtner is gaining territory; I would agree, especially as regards
the 3rd Concerto with Ponti and, though not putting it on this list, the 1st with Zhukov.

Anyway, in today´s mood:

- Pettersson 2.Violin Cto/Haendel
- Medtner 3.Piano Cto/Ponti
- Elgar Violin Cto (haven´t found the perfect recording yet. The I.Oistrakh is beautiful
and has bite, but perhaps a bit too slow, for instance
- Prokofieff 4.Piano Concerto /Krainev,Kitayenko
- Schnittke Viola Cto /Bashmet
- Brahms 1.Piano Concerto /Horowitz,Walter + some other recording, maybe Woodward/Masur, since it´s not totally complete
- Shostakovich 1.Cello Cto /dare I say ... with Ma/Ormandy
- Kabalevsky 2.Cello Cto /Wallfisch,Thomson
- Bartok 1.Piano Cto /Kocsis,Lehel
- nr.10: can´t make up my mind right now. The Busoni Piano Cto, Denisov Cello Cto, Dvorak Cello Cto, Beethoven Triple Cto, Barber Cello Cto and some others are competing furiously.

 

As for Alkan:

But as for Roslavets, I can't pull anything up for you off of the internet, sorry.

 

Another try now I have some more experience:

Shostakovich Cello 1
Prokofiev PIano 2 and 3
Rachmaninov PIano 2
Dvorak Cello
Sibelius Violin
Alkan Concerto da Camera 2
MIaskovsky Cello


Concerti still are not my thing

 

oh difficult... in no particular order:


bartok concerto for orchestra

rachmaninov piano concerto no.3

bruch violin concerto in g minor

bach violin concerto in a minor

vivaldi violin concerto (for 4 violins) in b minor

mozart piano concerto no.23 in A

prokofiev piano concerto no.3

ravel concerto for the left hand

tchaikovsky piano concerto no.1

 

The Concerto by Alkan is a part of his opus 39
comprising 12 pieces. The pieces 8,9,10 are the
three movements with the common title "Concerto",
whereas the other pieces are individual etudes,
and nos.4-7 called "Symphony" for solo piano.

Am quite sure that Roslavets didn´t write a cello or choral
concerto, but would have loved if he did; surely he is
an interesting composer. I have his recorded works.
But he wrote 2 cello sonatas, a "Dance" and a "Meditation" for
cello and piano, that have been recorded.

Some would might find it interesting in this respect,
that Mossolov´s cello cto exists in a recording. However,
it is a rather late work.

 

The Concerto by Alkan is a part of his opus 39
comprising 12 pieces. The pieces 8,9,10 are the
three movements with the common title "Concerto",
whereas the other pieces are individual etudes,
and nos.4-7 called "Symphony" for solo piano.

Am quite sure that Roslavets didn´t write a cello or choral
concerto, but would have loved if he did; surely he is
an interesting composer. I have his recorded works.
But he wrote 2 cello sonatas, a "Dance" and a "Meditation" for
cello and piano, that have been recorded.

Some would might find it interesting in this respect,
that Mossolov´s cello cto exists in a recording. However,
it is a rather late work.

Actually, those pieces I referred to you are considered two separate concerti. But I might just be wrong...

 

As a pianist I am definitely biased towards the piano concerto...

Tchaikovsky - Piano (van cliburn recording)
Tchaikovsky - Violin
Rachmaninov 2
Rachmaninov 3 (ashkenazy recording)
Rachmaninov 4 (michelangeli recording)
Rachmaninov rhapsody
Beethoven 5
Prokofiev 3
Mozart 21
Mozart 20

 

In vague and changeful order -

Bartok - Piano Concerto 2
Shostakovich Cello Concerto 2
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Bartok - Piano Concerto 1
Vaughan Williams - Oboe Concerto
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto 4
Grieg - Piano Concerto
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto 2
Prokofiev - Violin concerto 1
Martinu - Piano Concerto 4

Ive gone off my previous favourites like Dvorak cello concerto, Shostakovich violin concerto 1/2 from overlistening and Sibelius violin concerto though the sibelius was never a favourite cos last too movements too mediocre and trivial crap ending whereas tchaikovsky has good tunes and greater unity and personality plus a bloody good ending

 

Only started actively listening to classical about 7 months ago, so I have a ways to go; but so far:

Bach: Brandenburg 2
Bach (CPE): d minor Flute Concerto
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Haydn: C Major Cello Concerto
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Mozart: Piano Concerto 20
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto 2
Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto

 

Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
Beethoven: Triple Concerto
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Double Concerto
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

 

Bump. Old topic but a very informative one. So far the favorites seem to be...
Prokofiev - Piano
Dvorak - Cello
Mozart - Piano
Elgar - Cello
Beethoven - Piano
Shostakovich - Cello
Rachmaninov - Piano
Brahms - Violin
Tchaikovsky - Violin
Sibelius - Violin

 

Piano: Ireland
Violin: Mendelssohn
Cello: Finzi
Clarinet: Mozart
Harp: Alwyn
Harpsichord: Gorecki
Bandoneon: Piazzolla
Bayan: Gubaidulina
Flute: Rautavaara
Biwa and shakuhachi: Takemitsu