[Daniel]

What is you currently fav concerto? Myself it is Brahms 1 st piano concert and Beethoven 3 rd and 4th piano concerto.

 

[baroque flute]

Hmm... my favorite concertos. I won't get them in order of preference. Bach's Violin COncerto in E, Vivaldi's Violin COncerto in A minor, Lute COncerto in D, COncertos for 2 flutes, 2 trumpets, 2 mandolins, Piccolo Concerto, Bassoon Concerto in E minor. MOzart's Piano Concerto #21, Beethoven's 3rd and 5th Piano Concertos. Handel's Harp Concerto, and probably my favorite of them all is Handel's Concerti a due cori (Concertos for 2 horns)!!!

 

[Daniel]

Hmm... my favorite concertos. I won't get them in order of preference. Bach's Violin COncerto in E, Vivaldi's Violin COncerto in A minor, Lute COncerto in D, COncertos for 2 flutes, 2 trumpets, 2 mandolins, Piccolo Concerto, Bassoon Concerto in E minor. MOzart's Piano Concerto #21, Beethoven's 3rd and 5th Piano Concertos. Handel's Harp Concerto, and probably my favorite of them all is Handel's Concerti a due cori (Concertos for 2 horns)!!!

The instruments Vivaldis uses are sometimes exotic, but he integrates them in his concerto style ingenious!! The Lute concert in D is really awesome. The Mozart concerto i am just working on some passage are kinda tricky :lol:. I love this Händel harp concerto, too; there is so less harp concerto repertoire. You know the harp concerto by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf or anotherone by Wagenseil? Also nice. This horn concertos i don't have in ear now, must have a look on it.

 

[baroque flute]

I have heard part of the Dittersdorf concerto. It is not as nice as Handel, or Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto (another favorite), but it is kind of nice. There are way too few Harp Concertos around! (I might have to write one sometime. :lol

 

[Daniel]

Yes, write one, the good thing if you compose is: You don't have any problems with repertoire :lol:.

 

[baroque flute]

Originally posted by daniel@Aug 7 2004, 07:45 PM
Yes, write one, the good thing if you compose is: You don't have any problems with repertoire :lol:.

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LOL :lol:

 

[Daniel]

Update: Brahms 2nd and Elgar cello concerto.

 

[Quaverion]

I love the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Paganini Concerto No. 1, the Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No. 3, and Butterfly Lovers Concerto.

 

[James]

Quaverion, what is the butterflys concerto? Never come across it

 

[Harvey]

A thread on that is right here. http://www.talkclassical.com/forum/showthread.php?t=304 I think the subject changed to something else though.

 

[godzillaviolist]

Concerto

My favorite concertos... there are so many! I love Vivaldi bassoon concertos. His music brings out the bassoon's character like nothing else. The Weber clarinet concerto does the same for that instrument. But... the Elgar 'cello concerto is still my favorite, if only for sentimental reasons.

 

[godzillaviolist]

wait!

I just remembered... the Vaughan Williams oboe concerto! Another wonderfull concerto. The best for oboe in my opinion.

 

[violingal19]

J.S. Bach

My favorite is J.S. Bach's Minuete 1 and 2. I performed 1 as a solo in my middle schools spring concert two weeks ago, and it was a big hit. I reccomend listening to Theme from Symphony # 5 if you want a haunting piece.

 

[Poeme_elegiaque]

My fav

My favourite is Prokofjev´s first violin concerto ( Specially with Maxim Vengerov and Rostropovich TELDEC)

 

[val]

Daniel

What is you currently fav concerto?

Mozart's 17th and 19th piano concertos, Beethoven 4th piano concerto, Bartok 1st piano concerto, Elgar cello concerto and, above all, Mozart's clarinet concerto.

 

[Sardine]

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!

 

[Daniel]

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

 

[val]

Daniel

Yes, Jaqueline du Pré, but with John Barbirolli.

 

[godzillaviolist]

Concertos

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.
godzilla

PS; Nice to see that people are posting here a little more regularly. This is my favorite classical forum but it's very slow.

 

[karlhenning]

What is you currently fav concerto? Myself it is Brahms 1 st piano concert and Beethoven 3 rd and 4th piano concerto.

Wuorinen Third & Fourth Piano Concerti

Shostakovich First Violin Concerto

Nielsen Clarinet & Flute Concerti