Your ten favourite Violin Concertos

[Anna]

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.

Yes, it is true. The average R3 listener is a boring old fart ......

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes, it is true. The average R3 listener is a boring old fart ......

I am above average. A very boring old fart.

Berg, Elgar, Schoenberg (thanks, Hilary), Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Bach (x2), Barber.

[Tony Halstead]

Yes, it is true. The average R3 listener is a boring old fart ......

hmmmmm.... presume you are speaking 'for yourself' Anna?

[Anna]

hmmmmm.... presume you are speaking 'for yourself' Anna?

Well, Speak as you will be Spoke to Or some other Northern nonsense!

[Tony Halstead]

hmmmmm.... presume you are speaking 'for yourself' Anna?

Correction: on 2nd thoughts, for yourself AND myself!

[Serial_Apologist]

Schoenberg
Walton
Henze 2
Bartok 2
Szymanowsky 1
Prokofiev 1
Ligeti
Blake
Malipiero
Barber

[Tony Halstead]

Schoenberg
Walton
Henze 2
Bartok 2
Szymanowsky 1
Prokofiev 1
Ligeti
Blake
Malipiero
Barber

An excellent choice!
Definitely no boring old fart 18th / 19th century stuff...
Presume you refer to the beatific DAVID Blake and not the creator of the um.... er... 'Snowman'?

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes, Tony.

[Tony Halstead]

Yes, Tony.

[AjAjAjH]

Elgar
Mozart No.5.
Bruch Scottish Fantasy.
Saint Saens No.3.
Dvorak.
Shostakovich No.1
Bartok No,2
Mendelssohn.
Bruch No.1
Tchaikovsky

So there are 2 Bruch Concertos there and what's wrong with listening to CFM sometimes? CFM's Evening Concerts have been much better than some of the Proms this year. This is a Violin Concerto thread and in the past few days I have listened to a very poorly played Brahm's Concerto and something which sounded like a cat being tortured to death played by Midori, purporting to be a Violin Concerto and 'composed' by Etvos Both given at the Proms.

Would somebody please define an 'old fart'. I have a bus pass, a senior rail card, grey hair and draw my state and work's pensions. Does that make me one?

[Barbirollians]

Elgar
Mozart No.5.
Bruch Scottish Fantasy.
Saint Saens No.3.
Dvorak.
Shostakovich No.1
Bartok No,2
Mendelssohn.
Bruch No.1
Tchaikovsky

So there are 2 Bruch Concertos there and what's wrong with listening to CFM sometimes? CFM's Evening Concerts have been much better than some of the Proms this year. This is a Violin Concerto thread and in the past few days I have listened to a very poorly played Brahm's Concerto and something which sounded like a cat being tortured to death played by Midori, purporting to be a Violin Concerto and 'composed' by Etvos Both given at the Proms.



Would somebody please define an 'old fart'. I have a bus pass, a senior rail card, grey hair and draw my state and work's pensions. Does that make me one?

Eotvos concerto investigated by RSPCA shocker !


If we had 20

then Szymanowski1 , both Prokofievs, Bruch 1,Harty,Schoenberg( thanks to HH here too ) ,Mozart 4 & 5 and Saint saens 3 would be joining my list.

[jayne lee wilson]

Skalkottas
Holmboe No. 2 (World Premiere Recording 2013! No.1 has never been played, but... I love it in my dreams...)
Saariaho (Graal Theatre)
Berio (Corale)
Feldman (Violin & Orchestra)
Dutilleux (L'Arbre des Songes)
Roberto Gerhard
Lutoslawski (Chain 2, Partita...)

Mozart 1 (the slow movement...!)
Schumann (the D minor & the A minor arrangement from the Cello Concerto)

[Pabmusic]

Please ignore this if you want, because it doesn't follow the rules at all.

Here are twenty that ought to be much better known (some are well known, I'll concede) and which give me enormous pleasure:

Atterberg
Barber
Bartok 2
Berg
Bliss
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy
Coleridge Taylor
Dvorak
d'Erlager
de Freitas Branco
Karlowicz
Khachaturian
Korngold
Prokofiev 2
Respighi: Concerto Gregoriano
Rosza
Rubbra
Suk: Fantasia
Weingartner
Haydn Wood

The fact that there's no Beethoven, Elgar, Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Mendelssohn, etc simply means that I'm ignoring the best-known concertos.

[Bryn]

No rules? Hmm, in that case I will, for the moment, limit my choice to one (not a concerto for) Violin and Orchestra, i.e. that by Morton Feldman.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Would somebody please define an 'old fart'.

According to the OED:

"anyone describing Eotvos' Second Violin Concerto as 'sounding like a cat being tortured to death' [cf 'tired old clichés]