Your ten favourite Violin Concertos

[Demetrius]

You would get a list of what is traditionally played more often, so that more get to know it. Dvorak, Shostakovich (especially in the east) Tchaik are played a lot in Germany and are on every damn CFMstyle 100 Classical Hits CD. People know it. While there are less chances to stumble upon Elgar or indeed Walton. Not that they don't get programmed at all, I mentioned elsewhere that local ochestras around do schedule british works. But the core fare is historically central European and Russian. So thats what people know and care about. Go to France and you will get a different picture, go to Russia and you get another one. Know what's good about that? A more diverse canon of music gets played and recorded around the world. Thanks for globalisation, people can easily pick and choose their recordings and radio stations.

[Barbirollians]

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.

The Alwyn is a lovely piece . I have the McAslan /DLJ recording on Naxos and it is utterly baffling that it has apparently never received a public performance with orchestra .

[EdgeleyRob]

The Alwyn is a lovely piece . I have the McAslan /DLJ recording on Naxos and it is utterly baffling that it has apparently never received a public performance with orchestra .

Indeed Barbirollians.

There's also a lovely performance on Chandos by the late,great Lydia Mordkovich.

[Maclintick]

Bach A minor
Bach E major
Bach Double
Bartok 2
Britten
Prokofiev 1
Sibelius
Shostakovich 1
Stravinsky
Walton

....but would sorely miss Berg, Prok 2, Barber, Bruch, Dvorak, & occasionally, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, & Mendelssohn....