Favourite Piano Concertos?

[elisianna]

I know it changes all the time, but at the moment, what are your favourite piano concertos?

Right now I'm totally in love with
Kabalevsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2

Of course Rachmaninov's No. 2 and No. 3 will always be two of my very favourites.

I find that I really like most of the piano concertos I listen to.  Unfortunately I haven't listened to a LOT of them.  Seeing other favourites might give me ideas on which to find and listen to first, if I haven't heard them already~

[beethoven2]

~Beethoven Concerto no. 5 (emperor)
        ~has ALWAYS been my fav.
~Rachmaninov concerto no. 3

[teresa_b]

Beethoven 4 

Teresa

[kreso]

Rach 3!!!

[ilikepie]

As of now:
Prokofiev 2
Rach 4

[Kassaa]

Brahms2
Beethoven4
Busoni
Medtner 1
Prokofieff2

[kelly_kelly]

Beethoven 4 

Absolutely. No. 3 is good too, but...

[soliloquy]

Corigliano
Barber
Finnissy No. 7
Xenakis Erikhthon
Xenakis Synaphai
Xenakis Keqrops
Prokofiev No. 5
Ravel LH
Ginastera No. 2
Gershwin
Rautavaara 1

[franzliszt2]

Rach3
Prok3
Beethoven4
Brahms1

[chopianist123]

At the moment:

Chopin 1, 2
Beethoven 4, 5
Mozart 4, 20, 21, 23, 26
Liszt 1, 2
Rachmaninoff 2, 3
Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor

[minstrel]

All-Time:
Beethoven 4
Schumann
Rachmaninoff 2

Also:
Beethoven 1,3,5, violin, triple
Grieg
Tchaikovsky
Rach 3,Paganini
Chopin 1,2
Liszt 1,2
Brahms 1,2
Mozart 4

[desordre]

 That's easy... A work that I'm in love since I was twelve, about fifteen years ago:
 Mozart's K 466.
 Best wishes!

[cz4p32]

Currently i can't get enough of the Paderewski concerto.

[hodi]

Currently i can't get enough of the Paderewski concerto.

wow me too!
it's just so ******* amazing!

[dnephi]

For me,
Abslute favorite is Brahms 2.
Then come
Rachmaninoff 1,2,3
Liszt Totentanz
Franck Les Djinns
Schumann A minor
Beethoven 3,4,5
and for modern,
Barber.  The barber is so amazing, showy, effective...

[tullfan]

It has got to be Bartok No.2, especially the second movement. My God, the use of harmony and the orchestration are just incredible!!!

[avetma]

Rachmaninov 1,2,3,4
Liszt 2,3
Tchaikovsky 1
Chopin 1,2
Beethoven 4,5
Grieg

[dnephi]

Rachmaninov 1,2,3,4
Liszt 2,3
Tchaikovsky 1
Chopin 1,2
Beethoven 4,5
Grieg

I have never heard LIszt's 3rd.  I have only read of it even once.  Is it real?  What?  Explain, please?

[avetma]

I have never heard LIszt's 3rd.  I have only read of it even once.  Is it real?  What?  Explain, please?

Here is thread about Liszt's Third (posth.) Piano Concerto. Enjoy

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,18397.0.html

[rach3pianoconcerto]

All time favorite has to be Chopin's Piano concerto in E-minor. Beautiful larghetto second movement

[apion]

The Big Five:

Brahms 1
Brahms 2
Prokofiev 3
Beethoven 4
Rach 3

[tompilk]

vine
brahms 2
prok 2 & 3
tchaik 2
busoni

i'm still looking for a recording of the stupidly elusive Catoire Piano Concerto... it has been recorded!
Tom

[houseofblackleaves]

Ravel anyone?

Obvious: Rachmaninov concerti

Other:

Prokofiev no.2 (AWESOME) & 3 (Not as good, but meh...)
Ravel G major & Left Hand Concerti

Probobly my favorites.

[tompilk]

Ravel anyone?

Obvious: Rachmaninov concerti

Other:

Prokofiev no.2 (AWESOME) & 3 (Not as good, but meh...)
Ravel G major & Left Hand Concerti

Probobly my favorites.

if i were you id listen to the prok 3 a bit more... i used to prefer the 2nd for it's blazing cadenzas in movt. 1 and 4, but now i think i prefer 3 as a whole concerto...
Tom

[pianistimo]

leroy anderson's
rimsky-korsakov - capriccio espanole
amy beach
poulenc (for one piano - final concerto - not the two piano d minor concerto)

in the last movement of poulenc's concerto you will hear stephen foster's 'old folks at home'  offenbach's famous 'can-can' and frequent tango rhythms. 

[houseofblackleaves]

if i were you id listen to the prok 3 a bit more... i used to prefer the 2nd for it's blazing cadenzas in movt. 1 and 4, but now i think i prefer 3 as a whole concerto...
Tom

I understand exactly what you mean!  It's just... Prokofiev's second concerto speaks to me more than any other of his works (that I have heard.)  The first movement suggests to me the deep darkness deep within the earth, then the concerto slowly works it's way up to the surface, then in the final movement, I feel like there is a furious god-like force falling from the sky.... or somthing like that.  I also love how if you take the two themes from the first and last movements, it's like the soul of the peice has completly shifted from a haunting, ethereal narrante theme a much more personal, dramatic human theme.

That, and I heard the second first so... even if the third is a better peice put together, I still think there was more deep, dramatic, soul-wrenching material then the third.  Which isn't bad, by any means.  The third concerto isn't as heavy... actually, not heavy at all.  Quite refreshing.  Just a big change.


My favorite part of the third concerto is the last 2 or so minutes, you know, with all of the double glissandos and whatnot.  Does that make me shallow?

By the way... I've seen the score and how in the name of Oprah do you finger those? (double glissandos?)

[penguinlover]

Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor

[tompilk]

By the way... I've seen the score and how in the name of Oprah do you finger those? (double glissandos?)

you either play them as plain glissandos or just play them as clusters. You can choose! As described in another thread on this forum, the glissandos are easier but the clusters give you a more whip-like effect...
Tom

[christiaan]

Rach #4, Paganini Rhapsody
Tchaikovsky #1
Sauer e minor
Beethoven #3,4
Chopin #1, andante spinato & grand polonaise brillante
Mozart #9
Grieg
Liszt #2
Brahms #2
Saint-Saens #2,5

[ctrastevere]

Busoni's huge piano concerto in C is my favorite. My other's include:

Rachmaninoff 3, Paganini Variations
Gershwin
Khachaturian
Prokofiev 2, 3
Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano
Ravel 1

There are others, but I can't think of them all at once.

[tompilk]

Busoni's huge piano concerto in C is my favorite. My other's include:

Rachmaninoff 3, Paganini Variations
Gershwin
Khachaturian
Prokofiev 2, 3
Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano
Ravel 1

There are others, but I can't think of them all at once.

ive recently discovered the khachaturian. I must say it is absolutely amazing, so i recommend you guys listen to it. Not quite my favourite, although the second movt. alone would be there...
tom

[jacobwynn]

For most of my life, since the 1950s, the Rachmaninov 3rd has been my favourite concerto.
I first heard it on the radio (or wireless as we called it then) played by that wonderful English pianist Cyril Smith, whose pianist wife Phyllis Sellick died only last week aged 95.
But there are other concertos I love as well. At the moment, the Beethoven 4.

[jepoy]

Right now, here are my faves:

Bach Concerto in F minor
Saint-Saens #2 in G minor
Rach 3

[amelialw]

Mozart,Mendelssohn and Schumann

[phil13]

Scriabin
Bortkiewicz 1
Rach 1, 2
Franck Les Djinns
Brahms 2
Medtner 2
Beethoven 2, 3, 4 and 5


Phil

[elevateme_returns]

POULENC = super orgasmic