Your ten favourite Violin Concertos

[MrGongGong]

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)

This looks like a great listening list !
thanks

(The Feldman for me ..... but NEVER NEVER the sodding Tchaikovsky )

[Tony Halstead]

NEVER NEVER the sodding Tchaikovsky

AGREED!

[pastoralguy]

NEVER NEVER the sodding Tchaikovsky )

What a shame. It's ( probably) my favourite concerto of any kind. I remember spending the summer of '87 working at it. Happy days.

[MrGongGong]

What a shame. It's ( probably) my favourite concerto of any kind. I remember spending the summer of '87 working at it. Happy days.

I guess it takes all sorts etc etc
but to me it just sounds empty and posturing without any substance
fur coat , no knickers music

[Barbirollians]

Predictable response - fhgl - dismissing all criticism of contemporary music as a cliche - usually a tired old one

[Nick Armstrong]

Sals ! Your thread's kicking off again !!

[slarty]

Bruch Scottish Fantasia - has to be Heifetz
Korngold Previn and Mutter or Heifetz or Perlman. Great piece.
Brahms - Kreisler and Barbirolli.
Sibelius - Ferras Karajan
Mozart no 5 Menuhin Karajan DVD
Paganini no 3 Szering Gibson.
Saint-Saens no 3 - Milstein
Bartok no 2 Menuhin and Furtwangler.
Mendelssohn. Oistrakh.
Beethoven, but only if I can have the piano transcription. Barenboim

[edashtav]

Beethoven
Szymanowski no1
Shostakovich no 1
Bartok no 2
Prokofiev no 2
H.K. Gruber no 1
Berg
Sibelius
Hindemith ( with D. Oistrakh)
Walton

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Predictable response - fhgl - dismissing all criticism of contemporary music as a cliche - usually a tired old one

Well, it had the advantage of not going down the dreary old "Emperor's New Clothes" route so beloved of the imaginatively challenged, but "sounds like a cat being slowly tortured to death" is positively Eighteenth Century - so certainly "old" and indisputably a cliché. But I suppose "a tired cliché" is tautologous: I'm surprised the OED used it.

[Nick Armstrong]

Korngold Previn and Mutter or Heifetz or Perlman. Great piece.

Indeed. I have a slightly off-track favourite, a live recording from the Salzburg Festival with the VPO under Ozawa with Benjamin Schmid. (There's reference in the review by a customer on the link below, to the 2012 BAL on the work, when Gil Shaham's recording was 'chosen' - and when I seem to recall the Schmid version was slightly damned with faint praise):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Violin-Concerto-Gesang-Heliane-Stucke/dp/B000AOELXI/ref=sr_1_31?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1378039868&sr=1-31&keywords=korngold+violin+concerto

[AmpH]

Nielsen
Elgar
Bliss
Bax
Dyson
Armstrong
Schoenberg
Blake
Holmboe 2
Maconchy ( Serenata Concertante )

[teamsaint]

my list is a bit routine, but just to say that 4 I would really hate to be without are Barber, Britten, Kachaturian and DSCH.

Obvious ones like Brahms , Beethoven, Mozart 3 and 5 I won't bother mentioning. Oh.

I have been back from the North for about 2 hours. Done all the usual stuff (post , cats, etc) and this thread has given me some just wonderful food for thought. Great lists , especially from JLW. The Malipero sounds interesting too, along worth plenty of others.

Never run out of new stuff to listen to thanks to this board. Pity R3 isn't as much help.

(though I heard Feldman getting a spin on Essential Classics the other day. Hurrah !!)

[ahinton]

Oh dear, here we go! I'm going to start even before thinking about whether I can confine this to ten. In no particular order:

Szymanowski 1
Elgar
Bloch
Shostakovich 1
Dutilleux (l'Arbre des Songes)
Sibelius
Stevenson
Prokofiev 1
Szymanowski 2
Bacewicz (take your pick of any one the 7 by one of the most important contributors to the violin concerto repertoire in the past century).

The fact that the restriction of ten means that I can't mention either of Bartók's is a particular shame...

[Dave2002]

fur coat , no knickers music

... and that would be bad because?

I couldn't possibly comment further.

[Dave2002]

As we get more esoteric I'll throw in Bernstein's Serenade - though this is breaking such rules as there are, as I'm not very fond of it, and Walter Piston's concerto, which I don't know at all, but will now seek out.

There's also Pfizner's, which is at least not unpleasant, rather long, and probably not played much at all nowadays.