Your ten favourite Violin Concertos

[pastoralguy]

... and that would be bad because?

I couldn't possibly comment further.

Reminds me of an experience I had with a wealthy older woman...

[Dave2002]

Plural noun, singular article?

I mustn't comment further.

[Bryn]

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

I may have missed that. What was spun, and who spun it?

[Ah, the snatch from Piano and String Quartet chosen by Jango Bates, eh. Must say I much prefer the Smith Quartet (with John Tilbury) to the Kronos (Aki Takahashi's contribution notwithstanding). The Smiths' inspired use of baroque bows to help keep the dynamics low makes all the difference.]

[pastoralguy]

Plural noun, singular article?

I mustn't comment further.

Duly corrected...:

[Roehre]

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

with a middle movement in which the soloist's part consists of one word: tacet

[AjAjAjH]

Breaking the rules again - like old farts do - in my 42years of attending Halle concerts, I have heard 3 'off the beaten track' violin concertos:

Roberto Gerhard ( hope I've spelt that right) played by Erich Gruenberg.

Schnitcke.( hope I've spelt that right) No 4.

Busoni.

I enjoyed them all.

[salymap]

Would itbe a good idea for someone [antongould or another] to make alist of rarely heard VCs for Auntie, or have we given up on the lists ?

Just an idea

[makropulos]

My ten, in alphabetical order - it's not easy to get the list down to 10. So no Beethoven, Bruch (1 and 2), Barber, Bartók, Dvorak, William Schuman, Korngold... Anyway, here goes:
Bach E major
Berg
Bernstein (Serenade)
Brahms
Delius
Elgar
Hindemith
Janacek (Pilgrimage of the Soul)
Mendelssohn (E minor)
Szymanowski 1

[Dave2002]

Would itbe a good idea for someone [antongould or another] to make alist of rarely heard VCs for Auntie, or have we given up on the lists ?

Just an idea

I thought that was essentially what we are doing, by various means, including breaking any rules!

Well, barring the obvious top 10 or so obviously tuneful and popular ones.

[antongould]

Would itbe a good idea for someone [antongould or another] to make alist of rarely heard VCs for Auntie, or have we given up on the lists ?

Just an idea

Antongould is available, I cannot speak for another, with your permission I shall wait for a day or two......

[antongould]

Have we seen your list salymap?
Only asking........

[salymap]

Have we seen your list salymap?
Only asking........

No anton, you haven't. Mine are so obvious that the BBC already know of them. Anyway I was busy organising this.

[antongould]

No anton, you haven't. Mine are so obvious that the BBC already know of them. Anyway I was busy organising this.

Not as obvious as mine I bet.....

[Demetrius]

Haven't heared enough violin concertos to make it to a list of ten as of yet, but: Barbar, Elgar, Rubbra, Beethoven, Mendelssohn - and of course, Dyson, as stated in some older posts of mine.

The rather enthusiastic support for Szymanovski and Schoenberg is noted, will listen to both of them, though when it comes to Schoenberg it seems like I will have to buy the Hahn recording (while I can get Szymanovski for free )

[hedgehog]

Hmmm doing a list of 10 would mean I'd have to go back and do an awful lot of relistening Even so, I would really want to find room for Heinz Holliger's violin concerto. I like JLW's list but I think I'd rate Holliger's concerto above Saariaho's or Rihm's (or the Schumann arrangement).