Favorite Concerti?

[benji]

What are everyone's favorite piano concerti and performers? (I'm not asking what the best are.)

[jazzyd]

Subject to change, but at the moment...

Bach D minor - Gavrilov
Schumann - Fiorentino
Rachmaninov No.3 - Hough
Mozart K488 - Hough (Proms '02)
Dohnanyi No.2 - Shelley
Prokofiev No.1 - Ashkenazy (to tell the truth, I haven't heard many other recordings of it)


David

[zemos]

Mozrat, no. 24 in Cm, K. 491 (best by Alfred Brendel)
Beethoven, No. 3 in Cm (Again, Alfred Brendel)
Chopin, no. 2 in Fm (Krystian Zimerman of-course!)
Prokofiev- no. 2 in Gm (Evgeny Kissin/Vladimir Ashkenazy both good)
Ravel- no. 1 in G (A. B. Michelangeli)
Rachmaninov- no. 2 in Cm & no. 3 in Dm (2- Ashkenazy, 3-Horowitz)
Brahms- no.1 in Dm (Helene Grimaud/Ashkenazy both good)
Grieg- in Am (Zimerman)
These are my favorite piano concertos...

[anda]

mozart - es moll 2 pianos (lupu&perahia); 467 c dur (gilels); 491 c moll (schmitt-leonardy); 488 (perahia); any of them (antonioli)
beethoven - 1st and 2nd (argerich), 5th (michelangeli); any of them (gilels)
chopin 1st (argerich)
schumann a moll (lipatti)
grieg a moll (lipatti)
brahms - 1st (rubinstein), 2nd (horowitz)
ravel g dur (argerich)
tchaikovski 1st (argerich, michelangeli)
rachmaninov 2nd (richter), 3rd (volodos, argerich, horowitz), khatchaturian (kapell)
prokofiev 1st (argerich), 2nd (radu lupu), 3rd (argerich, kapell), 5th (perticaroli), all of them (ashkenazy)
bartok 3rd (argerich, lipatti)

and probably more i don't remember right now

[glBelgedin]

I don't have a favorite performer yet, but...

Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in Dm
Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in Am
Bach's Italian Concerto
Grieg's Piano Concerto in Am

[Awakening]

Rachmaninoff 2nd - Orozco
Chopin 2nd - Argerich
Grieg - ?
Tchaikovsky 1st - Ponti

[e60m5]

Chopin - Piano Concerto no.1 in E Minor Op.11 - Emil Gilels
Chopin - Piano Concerto no.2 in F Minor Op.21 - Krystian Zimerman
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto no.3 in D Minor Op.30 - Emil Gilels
Saint-Saens - Piano Concerto no.2 in G Minor Op.22 - Angela Brownridge
Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto no.1 in G Minor Op.25 - Lang Lang

[Nightscape]

Rachmaninoff's 2nd
Rachmaninoff's 3rd - Boris Berezovsky
Ravel G major - Zimmerman
Ravel Left Hand - Zimmerman
Rachmaninoff's Paganini Rhapsody


and...

Aaron Copland's piano concerto - Copland
 which is an incredible and neglected concerto.

[klavierkonzerte]

kullak
hiller
moscheles almost all of them, i love his early romantic style.
dohnanyi both
brahms 2
beethoven  4
mozart the ones in minor keys i think 20 an 17
crammer 3rd i think
grieg
liszt 1
all medtner ( i think they'r better than rach)
dvorak
bronsart
litolff 2,3  and i love the slow movment of the 4th
scharawenka concertos deserves more attention
henselt
saint-saens 1
hummel A minor

[donjuan]

Cziffra playing Liszt's Totentanz and PC no 2.  now THATS something!!

[joell12068]

Moszkowski's Piano Concerto in E major is the one I find myself listening to the most.  Very brilliant piano writing.  The recordings by Piers Lane (Hyperion) and Markus Pawlik (Naxos) are great.

[Op. 1 No. 2]

Medtner 1, 2, 3
Prokofiev 2, 3
Busoni
Scharwenka 3, 4
Khachaturian
Scriabin
Chopin 1
Brahms 1, 2
Rachmaninov 1, 2, 3 ,4
Lyapunov 1
Dreyschock

[musicsdarkangel]

My favorite concertos are
Rachmaninoff 3rd/2nd - played by Horowitz, Orozco, and Rachmaninoff
Tchaikovsky 1st - played by Argerich, Rubenstein
Franck Variations Symphoniques - played by Weissenberg and Cortot
Strauss Berleske - not sure about the player
Liszt 1st concerto - also not sure
Mozart K 466 in d minor, beautiful piece, he wrote after his mother died.

[hodi]

rachmaninov  - 3rd, (volodos/horowitz)
rachmaninov - 2nd (zimerman)
beethoven - 4th (i have a cd but forgot who is playing there)
grieg concerto...
bach concerto in d minor (gould)
mozart no.17 g major concerto (played by www.serg.vangennip.com)
mendelssohn g minor concerto
saint saens g minor concerto

there are so many!

[Musicag]

Brahms 2nd - Richter/Leinsdorf (1960)
Rach 2nd - Richter/Sanderling
Rach 3rd - Cliburn/Kondrashin (1958)
Beethoven 2nd - Gilels (1956)
Chopin 1st - Perahia/Mehta
Chopin 2nd - Rubinstein

[Jeremy C.]

Rachmaninov- Concerto No. 2 and No. 3
Greig- Concerto No. 1
Tchykovsky- Concerto No. 1