Favourite 5 Piano Concertos

Ok, I've finally worked out what my (current) favourite piano concerto is.

Mozart 27.

I just think its the summit of his great piano concertos, and it's one of his more romantic concertos.

Sometimes I don't like listening to Mozart concertos because they're too slight in comparison with the romantic ones, but i dont get that with this one.

It's such a grand piece that i feel it holds its own against the romantic concertos.

It's just fantastically written, and very expressive and emotive.

Plus the Mozart cadenzas survive which is always a plus.

I'd go as far as to say it's the best Bb major piano concerto ever written.

Let's say how I get beaten down now :)

Don't bring up Brahms, lol.

Also, Beethoven's 5th has gone up alot in my estimation (just due to the last movement).

Imo, Mozart wrote the best piano concerto 1st movements, and Beethoven wrote the best piano concerto 3rd movements. But that's just me...

let's see what anyone says...

Beethoven 4

Beethoven 5

Henselt Op.16

Schumann A Minor

Busoni C Major

I HAVE A NEW TOP 20

Beethoven 4

Beethoven 5

Medtner 1

Henselt Op.16

Alkan - Concerto for Solo Paino (Op.39)

Schumann A Minor

Beethoven 3

Grieg - A Minor

Brahms 1

Hummel A Minor - Op.86

Tchaikovsky 2

Hummel Op.89 - B Minor

Tchaikovsky 1

Arensky F-Minor (Op.2 ??)

Stenhammar 1

Mozkowski Op.59 E Major

Brahms 2

Stenhammar 2

Rachmaninov 3

Alkan - "Concerto de Camera No.2 in C# Minor - Op.10 Nr.2"

People would complain If I put my second Piano Concerto on that list.

Akhil G.

By far, not in any order:

Brahms 2, Brahms 1, Beethoven 5, 4, Mozart 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, Bach D minor, are the greatest but if I HAD to pick 5........almost impossibly difficult but if I simply had to then:

in order:

1. Brahms 1

2. EMPEROR (nuff said lol)

3. Mozart #23

4. Brahms 2

5. Beethoven 4

These all I consider absolutely 'perfect' works in the sense that EVERY movement is untouchable as opposed to many other works that are pure masterpieces but might have a slightly weaker movement or two.

Funny though that the concerto at my #1 spot is actually the weakest of all (it's last movement is famously weak) but it was also written by the youngest composer by far of anyone on that list (Mozart was in his late 20's when he wrote the 'great concertos', Beethoven was in his mid 30's when he wrote 4 and 5, Brahms was arguably 20 when he first started the D minor) and so it is excusable on those terms.

Mozart was in his late 20's when he wrote the 'great concertos'

He wrote the 'Jeunehomme' when he was younger than Brahms writing the d minor.

It is a truly great concerto.

Yeah, Jeunehomme was No. 13

My Top 5 Would be

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.3 (Best recording is by Arcadi Volodos)

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.4 (Great depiction of Beethoven's struggle to overcome deafness)

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.2

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.5 (Third Movement finishes the concerto superbly)

CPE Bach - Concerto In D Minor Wq.22

No. It was 9. 13 was in C major

Boy, this book here must be so old it's got some previous order: Gosh.

nah, it probably included the extra four arrangements of bach works, which almost always are left out now

Wow, this is a hard one! Hmm....... here's my list:

1. Mozart: Concerto No. 9 in E-flat

2. Mozart: Concerto No. 22 in E flat

3. Mozart: Concerto No. 20 in D minor

Well.... I cant leave this one out:

Beethoven's Emperor

William

Sorry, but I can't help it if Mozart is the best! :thumbsup: Just kidding.

William

1) Rachmaninoff's 2nd

2) Rachmaninoff's 3rd

3) Mendelssohn's 1st

4) Prokofiev's 2nd

Saving the fifth place.

Grieg -a minor

Mendelssohn No 1

those are my 2 fav.... beethoven 5 is good too.

MENDELSSOHN ROCKS!

Prokofiev's 3rd

Rach's 3rd

Rach's 3nd

Prokofiev's 2nd

Tchaikovsky's 1st

Prokofiev's 5th is also worth mentioning.

What's Skrjabin.. I can't seem to find that?

Often spelt lots of other ways, Skryabin and Scriabin being just two of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skryabin

Right now:

Rach 3

Beety 3

Grieg

Schumann

Beety 5

For me:

Mozart 15 (very interesting)

Beethoven C minor

Grieg

Schumann (I swear I saw the divine in this music!)

Prokofiev 1 (yum!)

For me the 3 best piano concertos are Chopin's first piano concerto, Saint saens piano concerto (i don't know the number but it's the most knowed) and Rachmaninnoff the second.

Arniszt: Saint Saens (I'm guessing) its No 4 in Cminor.

As for my own Favorites:

Sergei Rochmaninnoff Concerto No 2.

Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor.

Fredric Chopin Piano Concerto in E minor.

Husband and Wife Below:

Robert Schuman: Piano Concerto in A minor.

Clara Schuman: Piano Concerto in A minor.

Father and Son below:

WA Mozart - Piano concerto No 20 in D minor, the "Coronation" Concerto (thinks its No 22 - but not certain.)

FXW Mozart - Piano Concerto in C major Op.14

Coronation is #26 (Well actually there are two. #19 and #26, but it's generally taken as 26)

Is Franz Xaver's work any good? I've never had the chance to listen to any of his music.

Coronation is #26 (Well actually there are two. #19 and #26, but it's generally taken as 26)

Is Franz Xaver's work any good? I've never had the chance to listen to any of his music.

Yes, very much so. A little info: FXW Mozarts known works amount to around only twenty. The highlights of these are two piano concertos, two sonatas for Violin and Cello apiece, a wind Quintet, a Rondo for Flute and Piano. He had some great teachers: among them Salieri, Hummel, Albrectsberger and Volger.

He was a man whose fathers and grandfathers reputations, served more to overwhelm and haunt him in life, which is why he really didn't write much music. One of his lesser known contributions to musical literature was a variation he wrote for a symphonic work "Variations on a theme of Diabelli" in which other composers also submitted a variation of theirs. Schubert, Schumann, Weber and Hummel to mention a few of the others involved. The number was about 50 composers total.

Recordings are really hard to come by, but I lucked out while listening to our local Classical music station one day :( I tried to get a Deutche Grammophone recording of his concerto but evedently its out of print.

Greatest Piano Concerto has to be Beethoven's 4th, it opened the gateway to the romantic era. His 5th is equally good, but too bad it came after the 4th. Nevertheless my favourite 5 are:

1. Schumann 1st (its just sublime)

2. Rachmaninoff 2nd (one of my favourite melodies of all genres)

3. Beethoven 4th (sublime)

4. Chopin 1st and 2nd (melody makes me cry)

5. Prokofiev 2nd (needs some change of taste at times)

Honorable mentions:

Tchaikovsky (just cuz every1 say its good)

Mozart #21

Rach 3

saint saens #2

one of Bach's

Brahms 2nd (too big for me)

1. Bartok's 2nd

2. Shostakovich's 2nd

3. Prokofiev's 3rd

4. Beethoven's 4th

5. Gershwin

1) Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.2

2) Corigliano

3) Barber

4) Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

5) Bartok

1. Tchaikovsky I B flat minor

2. Rachmaninoff I

3. Grieg I A minor

4. Liszt I E flat Major

5. Beeth I C major

hmmmmmmmmmmm................................

1John Corliagno's Piano Concerto

2Henry Cowell's first piano Concerto

3Gershwin F

4Brahms 1st Dminor

5Warsaw Concerto(can't think of the composer)/Rach 2

Corliagno made me a man.

Although Rach's 2 made me a woman.

It's spelled "Corigliano"

Beethoven 4

Mozart K. 453 (G major)

Barber

Honorable mention: Corigliano