Mozart? Definately not. Mozart is one of the hardest! Though you don't imagine that looking to the score. I am working on the C-major concert no, 21 ("Elvira Madigan") right now. Mozart is sooooo hard to articulate and every little mistake hurts you and your audience.

What is an easy concert? Hard to decide. I would propose maybe Johann Christian Bach, some Haydn so called Divertimenti for piano and (string)orchestra. maybe some others will come to my mind later....

Mozart would be also good to start in that point that you would have it in ear and that helps much during practising. And you might love the concerts more...You musn't play it perfect or in a concert, so dare to choose some Mozart.

Will your teacher accompeigne you on a second piano with the piano reduction?

 

I would play along with MIDI.

 

I do no recommend that. It will hurt your interpretation.

 

Mozart? Definately not. Mozart is one of the hardest! Though you don't imagine that looking to the score. I am working on the C-major concert no, 21 ("Elvira Madigan") right now. Mozart is sooooo hard to articulate and every little mistake hurts you and your audience.

Yes! I agree. Have u heard of the saying that 'it's easier for a child to play Mozart rather than an adult'?
With Mozart, things must be crystal clear, transparent, yet crisp and light at the same time. It's really difficult to do all that , unless yr born with the 'Mozartian' touch. U can practice like hell, and still not get the correct sound. I always avoid playing Mozart for concerts. Yr audience can tell whether yr a Mozart player with just 1 touch of the keys. And Mozart's linear feel is difficulty to sustain...u see how the phrases are short, yet linked to one another in a big continuous flow...This's what's called Musical Continuity. It's awfully hard to do, without having 1 phrase or note suddenly isolated from the others. For Mozart, the music has to speak in a most natural and effortless way, and it's quite impossible for 90% of the pianist population...caz as adults, we tend to make everything too deliberate and elaborative.
If yr exceptionally good at Mozart, congrats! It's an inborn trait.

 

That was a beautiful description of Mozart
I dont have a lot of experience playing concertos, but my first was by Haydn, in D Major (i think, I'm too lazy to get up and check ). I don't remember it being difficult, and it has some nice moments. I remember liking the slow movement.

 

try Kabalevsky's Piano Concerto No. 3

it's meant to be played by students and it's still impressive.

 

You could take a look at Bach's F minor Concerto.

 

Do you think that mozart's concertos are harder to play in terms of technique or the interpreting part?
Is Mozart concerto harder than Chopin?

 

I am wondering what the easiest piano concertos are, because I'm at a point now where I may be ready for an easier one. Would that be one of Mozart's, or not? (I prefer one from the 1600's or 1700's).

Why don't you ask your teacher?

 

Can I draw your attention to this piece. The poster says it's the worst piano concerto ever written. Well that, of course is a matter of personal opinion.
But to my ears it's simple but attractive. Maybe it was a piece written specially for a student musician, who knows?...

 

Both concertos by Shostakovich is quite light-fingered.They are still brilliant.

 

Mozart's concertos are difficult to play, it needs very swift and delicate touch

For me, my first concerto is Bach's Italian Concerto. It looks horrifying at first, but truly it's not that difficult.

 

Nobody has mentioned the Schumann A minor. The last mvt needs lots of attention but the first is very playable. You could sight-read the second mvt. This is one of my all-time favorites and works on it subtleties rather than impressive playing. I love it.

Last Thursday I performed the Mozart K.488. In the orchestra I must add! The pianist was Marisa Gupta and she was amazing. The concerto sounded simple enough, but to pull it off with refinement and measured brilliance takes a genius to do well. Even though Gupta's playing did the work justice, there was still some sly rubato in the first mvt, naughty naughty!

 

Beethoven's First and Grieg's Concertos are first that student can allow himself to play, in my opinion.

Even though Gupta's playing did the work justice, there was still some sly rubato in the first mvt, naughty naughty!

Rubato is not allowed in Mozart's music? I thought, even in classical music (classical period) rubato is present.

 

So, you're saying that Grieg is less of a structural and emotional composition than the Schumann? I think it's best for the concert pianists to decide matters that!

 

So, you're saying that Grieg is less of a structural and emotional composition than the Schumann?

No, I don's say about the concerto as it is, but about playing it. I think, Grieg is more "forgivable" about an immature playing, than Schumann.

I think it's best for the concert pianists to decide matters that!

Here, I'm not agree with you. Everybody has a right to an opinion. Music is too subjective. What we do here is exchanging our opinions.
You said, concert pianists? I don't know iif you know, there are many wonderful musicians that could be concert pianists and have everything for that except a luck or money. It depends also of the country that you live in. Personally, I know the situaion in Russia and Ukraine nowadays. So many talented students just don't have enough of money to participate in competitions or even to continue studies. And so much corruption...
So I don't think that good pianists are only concert pianists.

 

so mozart's concertos are harder to interpret because you have to understand the structure of the piece and it's not easy to bring out its emotions?
i'm actually playing mozart's concerto no.20 in d min, i find his darker pieces harder to play than his happier ones....

 

Mozart, I find it particularly difficult. I don't know how to explain it. Mozart is like... asexual
Liszt in his music is masculine.
Chopin more feminine.
And Mozart is just like a general meaning of life, an embryo, a child xD
This is my perception.
To play Mozart, you have to forget about yourself, even when you improvise it.

 

Hi PiAnO, I was learning the D minor, how awesome is that piece?! I've discontinued it though so I can build up my repetoire. I'm going to try and learn the Schumann instead for my first concerto because some of those runs in the Mozart are ball-busters! What else do you play?

 

Hi Edward, i'm going to play this concerto with the orchestra soon, but i somehow still think that there's something more to the piece to be understood, and i don't know what it is....i think it's not technically difficult for me but the slow parts are really hard to be played without any random accents or rushed notes.
im not playing any other concertos right now because i'm focusing on my solo repertoires

 

I see what U mean about sexes, yet I find Chopin's Polonaises the most masculine music I've ever played and Liszt has some incredible feminine passages in the B minor sonata. I think it was the romantic ideal to try to explore the extremes of the different emotions we tend to associate with gender. When exploring classical we need to get into the "classical" frame of mind and treat the work with the refinement and restraint that the social atmosphere of the time dictated.

 

When exploring classical we need to get into the "classical" frame of mind and treat the work with the refinement and restraint that the social atmosphere of the time dictated.

You find it easier than to get into the "romantic" period?

 

i'd say mozart is a good choice. it's not that difficult to hit the right notes and when it reaches a fast enough pace, his music can survive some pretty rough treatment. the slow movements are a different matter entirely, bit they tend to be technically easy enough to allow you to rescue it through musicality.

 

Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto is very easy.. I learned and performed it after only a week of practice.

 

I actually attempted to learn a Mozart piano concerto; but after listening to it performed to utter perfection by Murray Perahia, I couldn't stand listening to myself play. LOL! But it helped me a lot, I think.

 

Shostakovich's 2nd piano concerto is very easy.. except for the third movement. maybe you can just learn the first two movements?

 

I'm gonna put my money on Rach 3 by the logic that the first few bars are pretty easy.

 

Yes...yes, that is exactly what I was thinking.

 

Maybe the notes of some concertos are easy, but it doesn't account for the requirements of your general accomplishment as a pianist when it comes to creating the right sound. I daresay no concerto is easy in that aspect.