[Marimba]

Favorite Concerto for each instrument anyone? i thought
it would be fun.. im staying away from trombone and tuba though...havn't a breeze....

Piano : this is hard....very tough....but...Rachmaninoff No. 3
Violin: Mendelssohn in E...
Cello: Saint-Saens
Viola:...em...
Flute: Nielson
Clarinet: Mozart (in A)
Oboe: Handel, No 3 in G minor
Basoon: eh...
Trumpet: Arutunian
Horn: Larson/Strauss No1
Percussion: Richard Rodney Bennett
timpani: Ney Rosauro

anyone got any additions or personal favorites?

 

[Bill Ward]

I'll play.

Bassoon - Hummel; Grand Concerto in F for Bassoon and Orchestra
Cello - Elgar/Dvorak
Flute - Khachaturian (this may be cheating)
Guitar - Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez
Harp - Boieldieu; Harp Concerto in C Majo
Harpsichord - Poulenc
Horn - Mozart (any of the set)
Lute - Vivaldi - The set usually heard on guitar these days
Oboe - Cimarosa - Concerto in C
Organ Concerto - Poulenc

Fun topic. Thanks for posting.

BW

 

[Bunnyears]

ooh a game!

Piano: Beethoven -- the Emperor
Oboe: Corelli
Flute: Mozart
Harpsichord: Bach (need I say more?)
Violin: Shostakovich
Cello: Elgar
Clarinet: Mozart
Guitar: Vivaldi
Viola: Telemann
Baroque Orchestra: Bach Brandenburg Concertos (no, it's not cheating!)
Orchestra: Bartok (no, it's not cheating!)
(hehehehe)

 

[Marimba]

Oh i forgot one......

Electric guitar: Yngwie Malmsteen......

how studid of me its so famous and everything...

 

[Bill Ward]

Ranks right up there with one Scottder mentioned in the neglected classical thread

Concerto for Harmonica, Op. 46 by Malcolm Arnold

BW

 

[Mark from HFR]

Piano : Schumann
Violin: Sibelius
Cello: Elgar
Viola:Telemann (in G)
Flute: anonymous (in G). I'm thinking of a delightful little roccoco work that Jean-Pierre Rampal recorded back in the 1960's for Decca. There were two flute concertos (in D and G), both billed as "Pergolesi". The notes admitted, though, that neither were by Pergolesi, they had merely been published that way in the 1700's when everyone was cashing in on the fame of the late Pergolesi. As far as I know, these have not been reissued. I still hope someone figures out some day who the real composer was.
Clarinet: Mozart (in A)
Trumpet: Jolivet #2
Horn: Mozart (any)
Tuba: Vaughan Williams
Percussion: Milhaud
Orchestra: Bartok
Small Orchestra: Roussel
Organ: Poulenc
String Quartet: Martinu
Harpsichord: Bach Brandenburg #5

Who was it that wrote a short concerto for coluratura soprano and orchestra? I think it was Glazunov...

 

[Doc Sarvis]

Piano : Schumann
Violin: Tchaikovsky
Flute: Mozart
Clarinet: Mozart
Trumpet: Haydn
Horn: Mozart
Orchestra: Bartok
Cello: Dvorak

 

[Tyson]

Violin - Sibelius
Piano - Mozart Pno Cto #20
Cello - Shostakovich #1
Horn - Richard Strauss
Clarinet - Mozart
Viola - Walton
Bassoon - Vivaldi (any number of them)
Oboe - Mozart
Harpsichord - Bach (pick one)

I wonder why there are so few front-rank wind based concerto's after Mozart. Seems as though everyone tried their hand at Piano and Violin concertos, but not many wrote Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, etc... concerto's. Odd.

 

[Marimba]

Mozart will be happy no one else is even being considered for Clarinet Concerto..not that theres a massive choice....like Weber....em...or..Stamitz...well i cant remember that much off the top of my head!

 

[jamont]

Violin - Shostakovich No. 1
Viola - Walton
Cello - Dvorak
Piano - Beethoven No. 4
Flute - Vivaldi, Op. 10, No. 1
Oboe - Strauss
Clarinet - Copland
Bassoon - Vivaldi (many)
Trumpet - Hovhaness, Prayer of St. Gregory
Guitar - Rodrigo, Fantasia para un gentilhombre

 

[Bunnyears]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tyson I wonder why there are so few front-rank wind based concerto's after Mozart. Seems as though everyone tried their hand at Piano and Violin concertos, but not many wrote Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, etc... concerto's. Odd.

I know that Brahms wrote for oboe and bassoon. There are also, I believe, some 19th century flute concertos. Just speculating, but I'll bet there were probably problems balancing the dynamics between the lesser volume oboes and flutes and the expanded 19th century orchestra. Also, instruments go in and out of style. Saxophones were very popular in the 1940s and 50s only to lose popularity in the 60s with the rise of the electric guitar. Anyway, the instruments now have works being written for them by Hartke, Swilich, Rautavaara, et al., even if we aren't hearing them. A better question now would be why there are so few concertos for electric guitar.

 

[Bill Ward]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marimba Mozart will be happy no one else is even being considered for Clarinet Concerto..not that theres a massive choice....like Weber....em...or..Stamitz...well i cant remember that much off the top of my head!

The competition from my collection:

Bruch
Cimarosa
Copland
Crusell
Danzi
Donizetti
Finzi
Krommer
Mercadante
Molter
Stamitz
Stanford

Household names, all.

BW

 

[Bunnyears]

The Mozart Clarinet Concerto will always be the one that most people are familiar with because Benny Goodman recorded it. Even my mother, who has no real feel for classical (as opposed to her mother who went every week to the Met. Opera) had a copy of that.

 

[Marimba]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill Ward The competition from my collection: Bruch Cimarosa Copland Crusell Danzi Donizetti Finzi Krommer Mercadante Molter Stamitz Stanford Household names, all. BW

Fair play i was just sayin im no expert on clarinet concertos!
And i cant believe i left out Bartoks Viola Concerto, it deadly! especially the last movement!

 

[deathBOB]

Are there any good trombone concertos?