FAVORITE CONCERTOS! The concerto form is one of my favorite forms in music.
List your favorite concertos for your instrument and others!
Some of my favorites:
Re: FAVORITE CONCERTOS! Which Weber?
Clarinet Mozart
Nielsen
Spohr (all, but particularly number 4)
Finzi
Copland
Violin Sibelius
Mendelssohn
Tchaikvosky
Beethoven
piano Tchaikovsy Bb minor
Mozart's 23rd in A major (mainly for its beautiful, utterly desolate slow movement)
Beethoven's Eb major
flute the Chaminade concertino, which one of my friends plays very well.
Oboe Haydn (particularly the slow movement)
Martinu (this work serves a a model for the content and general sond world of my upcoming 3rd oboe concerto)
Mozart
Those are the ones I can think of; there will no doubt be more additions.
--- Breathing is important! If you don't breathe, your sound will deteriorate, your phrasing will suffer, and you will die.
Mozart's Oboe; all of Bach's oboe, oboe d'amore and double concerti; Tchiakowsky's first piano; there are a couple of piano concerti by Beethoven and Mozart that I like but I don't know which they are; C.M. von Weber's first clarinet; there was a violin concerto that I liked but can't remember which one or by whom it was ; do Concerti Grossi count? Because I like the Corelli 'Christmas' C.G.; and I like a lot of Handel's. The four seasons are technically concerti aren't they? The Vivaldi ones. Um, yeah. I really should get listening to more concerti!
--- The difference between an amateur and a professional: the amateur practises until it's right; the professional practises until it never goes wrong.
Re: FAVORITE CONCERTOS! Sorry about the Weber mistake: for some reason I thought one of them wasn't called a concerto ( not quite sure which, I'll go check now ).
Re: FAVORITE CONCERTOS! It's the one in F minor I like.
Speaking of concertos, I've ordered in Havergal Brian's violin concerto recently. I'll post here when I get it.
; do Concerti Grossi count? Because I like the Corelli 'Christmas' C.G.; and I like a lot of Handel's. The four seasons are technically concerti aren't they? The Vivaldi ones. Um, yeah. I really should get listening to more concerti!