Your ten favourite concertos for orchestra and two solo instruments.

[mercia]

violin, horn, Smyth, Ethel, Dame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqVNlKqLrIo

[Serial_Apologist]

The Holst Double Concerto

[cloughie]

I'll just settle for six, all very predictable but absolute crackers:
Three from Mozart K364, K365 and K299
Two from Bach BWV1043 and 1056
Brahms Double

(If you were going for triples I would cheat and go for Tchaikovsky's 2nd PC - the middle movement is a stunner!)

[ahinton]

I misread the title and was wondering if I could even find as many as 5 concertos for orchestra.

Petrassi alone wrote eight!

Anyway - Mozart SC, Brahms, Carter, Delius - er -

[Serial_Apologist]

Petrassi alone wrote eight!

Anyway - Mozart SC, Brahms, Carter, Delius - er -

- the Henze Double Concerto of 1966 written for Heinz and Ursula Holliger, referred to en passant by ferney in #15?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

- the Henze Double Concerto of 1966 written for Heinz and Ursula Holliger, referred to en passant by ferney in #15?

... and the Lutoslawski, written for the same couple?

[Rolmill]

I am rather fond of Richard Strauss's duet-concertino for Clarinet & Bassoon. Britten's youthful double concerto (Violin & Viola) is another candidate, but I must confess that it doesn't do much for me. Someone mentioned Malcolm Arnold's concerto for 2 violins, and I would add his concerto for piano duet and the concerto for two pianos (three hands), both of which are well worth a good listen.

[mercia]

Nyman - saxophone & cello
Glass - violin & cello
Glass - two timpanists
Gordon Jacob - clarinet & trumpet
Lennox Berkeley - two pianos
Piston - two pianos
Rawsthorne - two pianos

[salymap]

I am rather fond of Richard Strauss's duet-concertino for Clarinet & Bassoon. Britten's youthful double concerto (Violin & Viola) is another candidate, but I must confess that it doesn't do much for me. Someone mentioned Malcolm Arnold's concerto for 2 violins, and I would add his concerto for piano duet and the concerto for two pianos (three hands), both of which are well worth a good listen.

Was the Arnold written for Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick or arranged for them?

They had quite a few works written for them after Cyril's stroke.

[cloughie]

Was the Arnold written for Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick or arranged for them?

They had quite a few works written for them after Cyril's stroke.

I believe it was written for them and was known as 'Concerto for Phyllis and Cyril'.

[Hornspieler]

violin, horn, Smyth, Ethel, Dame
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqVNlKqLrIo

Written for Aubrey Brain and, I think, Jean Pougnet.

HS

[mercia]

Written for Aubrey Brain and, I think, Jean Pougnet.

certainly played by that combination at this prom

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/archive/search/1930s/1932/september-20/4507

[Serial_Apologist]

... and the Lutoslawski, written for the same couple?

I have to admit, I had never either heard or heard of this piece!

[Serial_Apologist]

I believe it was written for them and was known as 'Concerto for Phyllis and Cyril'.

Too well do I remember being at the Proms premiere - cheesy music, not one of Arnold's better moments; I wondered what he had been "on" at the time. Of course, the whole audience bar myself went absolutely bananas after the concluding "pop" movement.

[ahinton]

... and the Lutoslawski, written for the same couple?

Yes, I'll go for the Henze and the Luto as well; that still leaves me rather well short of ten, though...