Your ten favourite Violin Concertos

[salymap]

Perhaps it's about time for another list in these restless days.

Any period, any number by one composer,if desired.

I'm too tired to make rules.

Have a nice evening......

[Barbirollians]

1 Beethoven
2 Brahms
3 Elgar
4 Tchaikovsky
5 Britten
6 Walton
7 Sibelius
8 Mozart 3
9 Bartok 2
10 Berg

[antongould]

1 Beethoven
2 Brahms
3 Elgar
4 Tchaikovsky
5 Britten
6 Walton
7 Sibelius
8 Mozart 3
9 Bartok 2
10 Berg

OMG Sir 8 exactly the same 8 and 9 replaced by Prokofiev 2 and Mendelssohn .....

[mlb7171]

I'm not sure what to replace with what. Except to say my list of 12, 13 or even 14 (no rules apparently) would have to include Goldmark and Hartmann (Concerto funebre), with the Sibelius pretty high up the list! Glazunov somewhere there too.

[Tony Halstead]

Oh dear, I hope we don't have to put them in 'order of preference' but simply as a list of 10 in no particular order... anyway, that's what I am doing!
1) Bach E major
2) J.C. Bach C major ( recently discovered)
3) Mozart 3
4) Mozart 5
5) Beethoven
6) Brahms
7) Delius
8) Walton
9) Elgar
10) Schoenberg

[Tony Halstead]

I'm not sure what to replace with what. Except to say my list of 12, 13 or even 14 (no rules apparently) would have to include Goldmark and Hartmann (Concerto funebre), with the Sibelius pretty high up the list! Glazunov somewhere there too.

There are indeed 'rules' - see the OP. You have to name only TEN!

[mlb7171]

Oh dear, slapped wrist. I was humorously and frivolously interpreting the phrase 'I'm too tired to make rules' in the OP. I'm new on the forum, and this post looked like a bit of fun whilst enjoying some film music on the radio. If it's that serious then everything said about radio 3's average listener may well be true.

[Tony Halstead]

If it's that serious then everything said about radio 3's average listener may well be true.

oh dear

[Barbirollians]

Saints above how did I forget the Mendelssohn - sorry Alban you are now No 11 !

[Tony Halstead]

Saints above how did I forget the Mendelssohn - sorry Alban you are now No 11 !

No wonder you forgot it.... so much empty note-spinning!
Nearly as bad as the CFM 'favourite' the Max Bruch #1 in G minor.

[Roehre]

Not in a particular order

Beethoven
Brahms
Berg
Rihm (Gesungene Zeit)
Sibelius
Keuris 2
Schumann
Bartok 2
Szymanowski 1
Prokofiev 1

[Dave2002]

1. Brahms
2. Beethoven
3. Mendelssohn
4. Mozart - pick one - say number 5
5. Sibelius
6. Bruch
7. Vivaldi - four seasons (really that's 4!)
8. Bach - are we allowed double concertos? Otherwise pick one.
9. Bartok no 2.
10. Prokofiev no 1

extras ....

11. Szymanowski
12. Berg

Now I'll peek at the others to see what everyone else has put down. There are a few others e.g Vieniawski, Vieuxtemps, Saint-Saens etc., plus no doubt quite a number of baroque ones - Telemann etc.

[Nick Armstrong]

saly - it's all kicking off in here! *



I'm not a big fan of violin concertos, not sure I have ten favourites. Let's see...

Elgar
Barber (can't believe no one's mentioned it yet!)
Korngold
Walton
Finzi (where's EdgeleyRob and Mr Dyson?! )
Britten

err... that's it I think





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[Dave2002]

Oh dear - I missed a few - including one or two I like a lot, such as Tchaikovsky's and Elgar's. I'm less fond of Walton's, but it's OK.

Others - Korngold, Glazunov and Barber have been pointed out.

Then there's Philip Glass and John Adams. Nielsen hasn't had a mention yet. Neither has Dvorak.

[EdgeleyRob]

1 Elgar
2 Britten
3 RVW
4 Dyson
5 Alwyn
6 Rubbra
7 Stanford
8 Myaskovsky
9 Mendelssohn
10 Brahms

Limited to 10,no room for Beethoven,Lloyd,Walton,Rawsthorne,Finzi,Glazunov,W einberg etc etc.