10 points best answer: Piano concertos?
I need a list of very nice piano concertos(with movements please) because some have like the 1st part nice, the 2nd not...
I don't want sleepy ones.
I like a lot the g minor of bach.
Please suggest as many concertos as possible as long as they are nice and vivid,
The one the highest number of nice suggestions gets the best!
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Well if you want all of them (or close to) just go to:
http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/List_of_compositions_f...
But here are my favourites, generally without 2nd movements so you won't fall asleep:
Hummel: Piano Concerto in Bminor Op.89 Mov I (rarely played)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 Dminor Mov I
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 in Eflat major Mov I
Schumann: Piano Concerto in Aminor Mov I and II
Grieg: Piano Concerto in Aminor Mov I
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 in Bb minor Mov I and III
Lizst: Piano Concerto No.1 in Eb major Mov I, II, III and IV
Poulenc: Piano Concerto Mov I and III (also rarely played)
Kabalevsky: Piano Concerto No.3 in D major Mov I, II and III (a gem that no one seems to know about)
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 in C major Mov I and III
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major Mov I
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No.2 Mov I and III
I left out Rachmaninov because you requested non-sleepy ones.....although Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 Mov II is one of the most beautiful movements ever, i don't know if its one of the pieces that you consider sleepy.
1) Rachmaninoff piano concerto no.2 movement All movements but the 1st movement is most prefered
2) Grieg's A-minor concerto all movements
3) Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a theme of paganini (All variations)
4) Liszt's Totentanz
5) Beethoven's 3rd piano concerto movement 2
6) Tchaikovsky's first concerto movement 1
7) Beethoven's emperor concerto movement 1
8)Dvořák Piano Concerto no.1 movement 1
9) Prokofiev Piano concerto no.2 All movements
10) Prokofiev Piano concerto no.3 All movements
11) Schumann Piano concerto A minor All movements
12)Ravel Piano concerto in G All movements
Hope you love them!
Shostakovich No.1 (for Piano Strings and solo trumpet)
Gershwin Piano Concerto in F
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No, 3
Elliot Carter Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano
Schoenberg Piano Concerto
Bartok any of the 3 will do
Scriabin Piano Concerto
I am not going to list individual movements as I believe a piece should be listened to in its entirety, to me just listening to individual movements feels like just reading a couple of chapters in a book and then moving on to another book
Tchaikovski's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major (Emperor)
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no 3 (mvt I)
Prokofiev Piano Concerto no 3 (mvt 3)
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no 2 (mvt I)
Rachmaninov no.2, 1st movement is great
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZRbko3UsnQ go to about 6:45
Then there's tchaikovsky 1, mvt 1 absolutely huge, but you don't need my help in finding that
I personally think Mozart 24 mvt 3 is one of the prettiest I've come across.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTVVTUb3DIA
Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is not technically a concerto, but it's pretty much the same thing. Check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90MuPqYtV_k&feature... go to 4:14
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Here are several that are 'all nice' and vivid, College Boy.
Bach Konzert fur zwei Klavier, C dur (all three movements, here, the 1st);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vbbnJ69Mc8
Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E-flat major for Two Pianos, K. 365/316a (all three movements)
For two Pianos: John Adams, Hallelujah Junction (all) here is the 1st movement;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uJ9tXgGmKg
Maurice Ravel Concerto in G (three movements): Martha Argerich, piano;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eowsQEn7SKo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsoSvHdcCv0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HwPeinOslo
Arthur Honegger: Concertino for piano and orchestra (one contiguous movement); Ilana Vered, piano;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uRnAG3wJpE
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5 (five movements) Sviatoslav Richter, piano;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwoXfMsuFWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIgW2IcEoMQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw_ymEIG0Ek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFvzn82UQhY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOml_9Cjx6g
Poulenc: Concerto for two pianos and orchestra (all three movements, here the 1st);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC4kJiTHTtQ
enjoy
p.b.