Your ten favourite concertos for orchestra and two solo instruments.

[salymap]

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

I shouldn't worry ahinton - just a bit of fun but lots I've never heard of.

[ahinton]

I shouldn't worry ahinton - just a bit of fun but lots I've never heard of.

Don't worry; I'm not worried!...

[BBMmk2]

Brahms Violin and Cello
Delius: Double
Lutoslawski(cant remember the combo!!??)
Vivaldi: Two mandolins

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Lutoslawski(cant remember the combo!!??)

Oboe and Harp? (Strictly speaking, though, the third Movement is practically a Triple Concerto for Oboe, Harp & Xylophone!)


Anyone have an opinion of Concerto for Piano, Percussionist and orchestra by Unsuk Chin - the temptation to mention a Double Chin Concerto has become irresistable: I've been resisting for nearly a week!

[cloughie]

Oboe and Harp? (Strictly speaking, though, the third Movement is practically a Triple Concerto for Oboe, Harp & Xylophone!)


Anyone have an opinion of Concerto for Piano, Percussionist and orchestra by Unsuk Chin - the temptation to mention a Double Chin Concerto has become irresistable: I've been resisting for nearly a week!

It'll have whiskers on by now!

[Boilk]

Anyone have an opinion of Concerto for Piano, Percussionist and orchestra by Unsuk Chin - the temptation to mention a Double Chin Concerto has become irresistable: I've been resisting for nearly a week!

You wouldn't say Double Brahms Concerto, but Brahms Double Concerto.

Similarly I'm afraid it would be Chin Double Concerto

Oh well, chin up.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You wouldn't say Double Brahms Concerto, but Brahms Double Concerto.

I would if there were a cheap joke resulting from it.

My infinitely better half refers to it as my "youngest child syndrome".

[Colonel Danby]

Malcolm Arnold: Concerto for Phyllis and Cyril
Bach: Violin Concerto for two soloists (preferably Simon Standage and Micaela Comberti)
Bartok: Concerto for two pianos (the Labeque sisters with Uncle Simes)
Steve Martland: Drill
William Josephs: Doubles Op 85
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (for two pianos: Ashkenazy/Gavrilov)
Rawsthorne: Concerto for two pianos
Mozart: Concerto for Two pianos K365 in E flat major
Ravel: Ma Mere L'oye for two pianos (Lortie/Mercier)
Debussy: Trois Nocturnes (transcribed by Maurice Ravel for two pianos) Coombs/Scott

from my own collection....