Concerto Recommendations

I'm currently writing an alto saxophone concerto for band and I was wondering if there are some concertos that I could study while I am undergoing this new adventure of concerto writing.

My favorite concerto is Rachmaninoff's 2nd!!!

I am also renting a book called "The Concerto 1800-1900...A Norton Music Anthology"

By Paul Henry Lang

And it has a lot of scores in them.

Did you specifically want concerti for saxophone, or at least that family?

Here are some of my favourites, anyway:

Ravel's Piano Concerto in G

Elgar's 'Cello Concerto in E minor

The second movement of JC Bach's Concerto in C minor (originally for viola, often played on 'cello) I'm not too fond of the other movements, though.

Bartok and Kabalevsky have some gorgeous concerti... hmm.. that's all I can think of.. hope it's a help!

Camilla

I can give you plenty of saxophone concerti:

Glazunov: Saxophone Concerto in Eb (Generally fairly conservative in his writing, so this is a good place to start)

Creston: Saxophone Concerto

Dubois: Saxophone Concerto (He's written heaps of stuff for saxophone)

Tomasi: Saxophone Concerto

Ibert: Concertino da Camera

Larsson: Saxophone Concerto

Denisov: Saxophone Concerto (Actually an arrangement of his viola concerto but definitely worth checking out for some more modern writing)

This box set has several more obscure saxophone concerti which I can't remember off the top of my head:

Amazon.com: Jean-Marie Londeix: Private Recordings, Vols. 1-4: Thierry Alla, Andre Ameller, Pierre Auclert, Pierre-Philippe Bauzin, Rene Bernier, Paul Bonneau, Marius Constant, Paul Creston, Claude Debussy, Claude Delvincourt, Edison Vassilievich Den

As for other concerti, generally anything by Beethoven and Rachmaninov. I'm also a fan of some of the Shostakovich concerti although some of them are very very dull and boring (Avoid the violin concerti at all costs).

If you want to look at less showy types of pieces for solo instrument and orchestra, the Dutilleux "L'arbre des songes" and "Tout un monde lontain" are excellent.

Hope that helps!

Mike Mower's Saxophone Concerto is pretty nice.

I don't know about saxophone concertos, but I personally love the Sibelius Violin Concerto and the Walton Viola Concerto.

The second movement of JC Bach's Concerto in C minor (originally for viola, often played on 'cello) I'm not too fond of the other movements, though.

I prefer to call it one of the Casadesus Viola Concertos, because that's what it is.

I prefer to call it one of the Casadesus Viola Concertos, because that's what it is.

Does it really matter who actually wrote it when all is said and done? We have the music.

Avoid the Chopin piano concertos, or at least the orchestra parts.

Does it really matter who actually wrote it when all is said and done? We have the music.

Yes, it does. When considering the work in historical perspective, it's important to remember it's really by Casadesus, which is not to say that we're doing some kind of historical critique right now, but, hey, somebody here might randomly decide to do one in their free time.

I'm not saying I know who it's really by, I'm just curious.. how are you so sure?

I'm only asking how that's been proved, I'm not arguing with anyone, I'm genuinely interested in how that was discovered and such.

(Sorry to piano_player18 for my interruption to your post, by the bye! I hope you've got what you need out of it!)

Thank you everyone...I think when I get the money I am going to buy that saxophone concerto CD. I never realized there was so much music for saxophone and orchestra. That would be great to write a saxophone concerto for orchestra.

I always felt that saxophones were kind of kicked out of the orchestra...the outcasts.

Saxophones can add such a nice sound to the orchestra. But I guess lots of composers weren't looking for that in their works.

Have you heard Shostakovich's Jazz Suites for Orchestra?

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1!!!

Saxophones can add such a nice sound to the orchestra. But I guess lots of composers weren't looking for that in their works.

Have you heard Shostakovich's Jazz Suites for Orchestra?

No I've never heard about that piece.

I probably should have just said this in the first reply when I asked about it, haha. But anyway..! He uses saxophones in that....

Yeah... it really was worthwhile telling you that! Aren't you glad I did?!!

*sighs and walks off embarrassed*

I probably should have just said this in the first reply when I asked about it, haha. But anyway..! He uses saxophones in that....

Yeah... it really was worthwhile telling you that! Aren't you glad I did?!!

*sighs and walks off embarrassed*

Yes, thank you very much!!!

:thumbsup:

I advice you to listen, from concerts to the Baroque concert of Stravinsky