Your 1st Concerto!

[amelialw]

What was the 1st concerto that you learned/or are learning? or for those of you who haven't learnt one yet which one do you want to learn?

[arensky]

Mozart # 14 in Eb K.449.

Still one of my favorite concerti.

[ekirth]

Mozart, No. 13, K. 415 in C major.

(Only the 1st and 3rd movements, and it was when I was much younger, when I did it as a duet w/ my piano teacher.)

It's the only one I've played before.

[jlh]

R. Schumann A minor

[klavierkonzerte]

i think it was ferdinand ries concerto in c# minor but i didn't work on the second and third movments.

[mephisto]

Haydn D Major.

[nicco]

Liszt #1

[elspeth]

Do non-piano concerti count? On flute my first was Mozart 2 in D... also learned the first movement of Mozart 1, and Bach Orchestral Suite no 2 in B minor but my interest in flute music is generally more geared towards chamber music and orchestral in the sense of being a member of the main orchestra rather than a soloist as such.

On piano... I'm really not good enough to consider it yet, but I do like Gershwin in F.

[retrouvailles]

Rachmaninoff's 1st Piano Concerto, but the original version.

[amelialw]

mine's the Schumann Concerto in a minor. I just started learning it 1 and a half months ago.

[sharon_f]

Haydn D major

[amelialw]

and on one of the really old posts someone said the Haydn Concerto in D major is underplayed or the least played. I've seen so many videos of kids and adults playing Haydn's Concerto.

[thalberg]

Bach D minor

[prongated]

Was Mendelssohn 1, but I wanted Beethoven 1. So yuh.

[invictious]

Cello:
Haydn - Cello Concerto in C Major
Saint-Saens -   Cello Concerto in A minor

My first 2, yet they also happen to be the hardest pieces in the cello repertory

Piano:
Haydn - Piano Concerto in D Major
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto no.3



Kidding about the last one.

[arensky]

Cello:
Haydn - Cello Concerto in C Major
Saint-Saens -   Cello Concerto in A minor

My first 2, yet they also happen to be the hardest pieces in the cello repertory

Uh, Dvorak and Elgar Concerti? Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations? Bloch's Schleomo? Elliot Carter's Sonata? 

Ah think you are kidding about these, also... 

[pianistimo]

leroy anderson's.

[viking]

Liszt No.2...............then
Khachaturian..............then
Prokofiev No.2...........then

??

[jinfiesto]

Go thal! Mine was the bach d minor too!

[jepoy]

Bach in F minor, 1st and 2nd movements only

[invictious]

Uh, Dvorak and Elgar Concerti? Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations? Bloch's Schleomo? Elliot Carter's Sonata? 

Ah think you are kidding about these, also... 

I personally didn't find Dvorak or Elgar THAT hard...

Rococo is one of the hardest..my arms fell off... but it's not a concerto because it doesn't have the word concerto in it's name


Carter is just meh..

[jlh]

Rococo is one of the hardest..my arms fell off... but it's not a concerto because it doesn't have the word concerto in it's name

Although it was the closest Tchaikovsky ever came to writing a full concerto for cello. 

[imbetter]

i have not yet played any piano concertos but i would like to do beethoven's 3rd at some point in the near future

[soliloquy]

I personally didn't find Dvorak or Elgar THAT hard...

Try the Schoenberg or the Gulda.  Those are the two my father is working on atm.  And without getting into anything like new complexity, there are the Ginastera concerti, the Penderecki Cello Concerti (both immensely difficult, particularly the second) and the Sonata for Cello and Orchestra, the Barber, Britten Cello Symphony, Shostakovich Concerto 2, Prokofiev, the Dutilleux, Lutoslawski, Gruber and Goehr for starters that should provide adequate challenge


Can we maybe hear your Kodaly Sonata or a Britten Suite?

[ahinton]

The Tippett - but that was a long time ago when even though I was already only too well aware that I was almost the very opposite of a pianist I nevertheless felt that I ought at least to make some effort (or was it pretence?) at being one; a good choice under those circumstances, really, because, for the most part, Tippett had not much more of a clue about writing effectively for the piano than I did about playing it in those days, for all that his concerto is itself quite attractive (and actually sounds a whole lot more like reasonably decent piano writing than is actually the case most of the time). His best solo piano work, by the way, is his Third Sonata, I think.

Best,

Alistair

[hermesdream]

Hi everybody !

I played Mozart's Concerto "Coronation" (the 26th) but only the first movement and this was two years ago... I had the chance to perform it in concert, accompanied by an electon (a sophisticated electronic keyboard that can reproduce, and amazingly well enough, the sounds of an orchestra...)

For the years to come, I am eager to play Grieg's Concerto (the first movement is simply delicious), Schumann's one and maybe Tchaikovsky's (although it is too tricky for me now)...

But I would like to play them with an orchestra (if not, a least with an electon or a second piano, which would play the orchestra parts) as I am afraid that it would be so frustrating to be play a concerto only with the piano...

Quentin.

[zheer]

What was the 1st concerto that you learned/or are learning? or for those of you who

    Rachmaninoff 2nd concerto is the only concerto that am looking to learn, all the other onez are way tooooooooo difficult.

[jlh]

    Rachmaninoff 2nd concerto is the only concerto that am looking to learn, all the other onez are way tooooooooo difficult.

Are you kidding?  The 2nd is the most difficult. 

[orticia]

Hi, everyone, I'm new here  But to answer the topic - my first concerto was Rachmaninoff 3rd Concerto

[zheer]

Are you kidding?  The 2nd is the most difficult. 

   So i've heard, the notes fit very well under the fingers.

[invictious]

Try the Schoenberg or the Gulda.  Those are the two my father is working on atm.  And without getting into anything like new complexity, there are the Ginastera concerti, the Penderecki Cello Concerti (both immensely difficult, particularly the second) and the Sonata for Cello and Orchestra, the Barber, Britten Cello Symphony, Shostakovich Concerto 2, Prokofiev, the Dutilleux, Lutoslawski, Gruber and Goehr for starters that should provide adequate challenge


Can we maybe hear your Kodaly Sonata or a Britten Suite?

Now, when did YOU play cello
You just burst my bubble...
I don't like Shosty, so he's out
I played Prok's first movement, yes it's hard :p
Penderecki is the killer, finished 2nd and 3rd movement. Considering first movement...as if life isn't short enough

[arbisley]

Vivaldi cello concerto, a minor possibly...

Vivaldi double cello concerto in G minor

Saint Saens cello concerto in A minor

I learnt all these and only performed the 1st movement of the 2nd on the list.

I have performed the Mozart K488 no.23 in A minor complete with orchestra.

I thought the cello concerto was averagely difficult, had tricky passages but not like what others sound like.

[soliloquy]

Now, when did YOU play cello
You just burst my bubble...
I don't like Shosty, so he's out
I played Prok's first movement, yes it's hard :p
Penderecki is the killer, finished 2nd and 3rd movement. Considering first movement...as if life isn't short enough

My exploits into the cello world would be more appropriately referred to as "sucking" rather than "playing".  But my father is the principal cellist in the ASO, and was also the principal of the Caracas Symphony and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.  Was section in the Philadelphia Philharmonic but quit because he said it was too much work to be in the section   Came in second for an audition for asst. principal there though.  If you have a naxos subscription look up William Kraft and listen to "Interplay" if you wanna hear him.  So yeah that'd be why I know a lot about the cello repertoire.  He'll be soloist in the Gulda concerto this season with the ASO, and is gonna do the Saint-Saens and Dutilleux next year, along with a master series of solo and chamber works.


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[burstroman]

Mozart Concerto in Dminor.

[teresa_b]

Beethoven 1 

Teresa

[maxy]

wow! now I almost feel  bad to say my first was Shotakovich's #2

[moi_not_toi]

wow! now I almost feel  bad to say my first was Shotakovich's #2

Why?
Shosty is teh S*&#!!!!!!
His second piano concerto was my second, my first being Grieg (5th grade, yo! That was fun!)