Best Concerto

The Schnittke piano concerto...simply orgasmic and haunted!

Tchakovsky's violin concerto is the best (i.e. my favourite) that I've heard so far ;)

for me no doubt: Ravel, concerto en Sol

next Gershwin, concerto in F

next Brahms violin concerto

By the way sorry if this is slightly off topic but can Beethoven's Choral Fantasy count as a concerto?

By the way sorry if this is slightly off topic but can Beethoven's Choral Fantasy count as a concerto?

I'd say it was more a preparatory sketch for the 9th symphony.

well, since I dislike "best of" threads, I'll include another choice as a "favorite" concerto:

Henri Dutilleux - Concerto for cello

On the subject of cello concerti, I also particularly love the Barber cello concerto, and the Schostakowitch concerti.

I'm trying to remember another one.. and for the life of me I can't remember... is it the Delius? or Elgar? Which one of those two wrote a beautiful cello concerto? God help me if both did! I'll never find out then!!!!

Well Elgar certainly wrote a beautiful cello concerto. Not sure whether or not Delius did.

If we had to agree on the "most perfect" Mozart piano concerto which would it be? 23? 24? 25?

If we had to agree on the "most perfect" Mozart piano concerto which would it be? 23? 24? 25?

I don't know, I love the middle movement of the A major concerto (number 23), but love the outer movements of the D minor (number 20). I would love to make a "complete" concerto out of those two.

Prokofiev's 3rd for piano. My favorite of all time. The man was a genius.

What makes 20 incomplete?

I haven't heard enough concertos, but I'm in love with Barber's Violin concerto. The second movement makes the whole piece.

What makes 20 incomplete?

I didn't say number 20 was incomplete.. I said I'd love to make one whole concerto out of the 1st and last of 20, with the middle of 23.

Oh haha.. nahh.. 23 is perfect and it was also very, very close to Mozart.. he loved it. I'm not sure if 24 and 25 are better.. probably not.

I'm trying to remember another one.. and for the life of me I can't remember... is it the Delius? or Elgar? Which one of those two wrote a beautiful cello concerto? God help me if both did! I'll never find out then!!!!

do you mean this one ?

do you mean this one ?

oh god yes.

how silly of me.. I'm wiping tears from my eyes just from hearing that simulation of it.

I think that's such an incredible piece of music.

Oh haha.. nahh.. 23 is perfect and it was also very, very close to Mozart.. he loved it. I'm not sure if 24 and 25 are better.. probably not.

I prefer the outer movements of 24 and 25, but 23 has the better middle movement.

#25 has a special significance for me, as it was the piece that "got me into" classical music. It's also rather unique in flavour.. the first two movements anyway.

Personally, I enjoy Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto.

I prefer the outer movements of 24 and 25, but 23 has the better middle movement.

#25 has a special significance for me, as it was the piece that "got me into" classical music. It's also rather unique in flavour.. the first two movements anyway.

Not to get too far off topic, but the piece that got me into classical music was Bach's 3rd Brandenburg Concerto (Mvmt. 1).

oh god yes.

how silly of me.. I'm wiping tears from my eyes just from hearing that simulation of it.

I think that's such an incredible piece of music.

Oh yes :w00t:

I just can't stop listening to Gershwin's Concerto in F. It is just such sumptuous ear candy!

Schumann piano concerto #1 . makes me feel like im in heaven

Im still going to have to say I am utterly impressed by Rachmaninov's 3rd Concerto, the 2nd concerto is next to best...in fact, no. They share EQUAL 1st place. I just like the 3rd concerto's Cadenza (the ossia version).

*doesn't read thread*

John Adams' Violin Concerto is quite good. Some of it sounds like Berg, though, but I'll ignore that.