Top 10 Favorite VCs

[JBS]

DSCH 1
Beethoven
Brahms
Mendelssohn
Katchaturian
M. Lindberg
Ligeti
John Adams*
Lalo (Symphonie Espagnole)*
Mozart 5
Tchaikovsky

* If double concertos are allowed, replace with Bach BWV 1043 and Part's Fratres.

[Brian]

Aulin #3
Bach E major, and for two violins
Dvorak
Martinu 2, and for two violins
Mozart #3
Sibelius
Tchaikovsky
Wieniawski #2

Big changes since 2013. For example I can rank them in order now.

1. Sibelius
2. Shostakovich No. 1
3. Barber
4. Tchaikovsky
5. Brahms
6. Wieniawski No. 2
7. Mendelssohn
8. Mozart No. 3
9. Suk ("Fantasy")
10. Prokofiev No. 2

Hon. Mentions: Dvorak, Salonen, JS Bach
Major works I haven't heard: Elgar, Shostakovich No. 2, Schumann

[Brahmsian]

Big changes since 2013. For example I can rank them in order now.

1. Sibelius
2. Shostakovich No. 1

We share the same 1 and 2 order!

[Florestan]

Can't believe I've never posted in this thread.

Otomh:

Mozart 4
Mozart 5
Beethoven
Paganini 2
Mendelssohn E minor
Schumann
Tchaikovsky
Saint-Saens 3
Vieuxtemps - Fantasia appassionata (picking among his genuine concertos is impossible)
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Three runners-up: H. Wieniawski 1, Lalo - Symphonie espagnole, Glazunov

[ritter]

Can't believe I've never posted in this thread...

That makes two of us...

Not really my favourite genre, but here goes (in alphabetical order):

Beethoven VC
Berg VC
Berio Corale
Carter VC
Maderna VC
Mozart VC No. 3
Schoenberg VC
Skalkottas VC
Stravinsky VC
Walton VC

EDIT:

Turns out I had answered this a couple of years ago: 

Let's give this a try (in alphabetical order by composer):

- Beethoven
- Berg
- Carter
- Ginastera
- C. Halffter VC #1
- Maderna
- Mozart VC #3
- Saariaho Graal théâtre
- Schoenberg
- Stravinsky

Yes, that makes 10...

Relatively consistent, I'd say. 

[Jo498]

The Schumann seems to enjoy an uncommon popularity in the last few years (after having been relegated to the "loony bin" for a century), I would still hesitate to call it one of the major ones.

[Ken B]

Can't believe I've never posted in this thread.

Otomh:

Mozart 4
Mozart 5
Beethoven
Paganini 2
Mendelssohn E minor
Schumann
Tchaikovsky
Saint-Saens 3
Vieuxtemps - Fantasia appassionata (picking among his genuine concertos is impossible)
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Three runners-up: H. Wieniawski 1, Lalo - Symphonie espagnole, Glazunov

I have never heard the Wolf -Ferrari, or at least not all of it. Started it the other night but had to go to bed. It started well!

Listen to Prokkers VC 2. Seriously.

[Florestan]

I have never heard the Wolf -Ferrari, or at least not all of it. Started it the other night but had to go to bed. It started well!

Listen to Prokkers VC 2. Seriously.

I have already listened to both of them. Not bad.

[Florestan]

The Schumann seems to enjoy an uncommon popularity in the last few years (after having been relegated to the "loony bin" for a century), I would still hesitate to call it one of the major ones.

The thread asks for favorites, not major ones. 

[Brahmsian]

The thread asks for favorites, not major ones. 

Precisely!

[Jo498]

I was reacting to Brian's confession #161 that Elgar, Schumann and DSCH #2 were "major ones" he had not yet heard.
It struck me as odd to group all these with the major ones, "one ought to know". Both Schumann and Elgar seem rather niche to me and Shostakovich's 2nd seems totally overshadowed by the first (without consciously collecting them I have five recordings of #1 and only one of #2) but this might have changed.

Among non-major ones, I think Wolf-Ferrari and Rozsa deserve to be as well known as the Korngold.

[amw]

I was pretty sure I'd already posted here & was not wrong!

Bach E major
Bach A minor
Bach 2 violin concerto
Mendelssohn
Dvořák
Чайковский
Barber
Prokofiev G minor
Feldman
Someotherone

A current list would be more like
Bach - BWV 1052R
Dvořák
Bartók No. 2 (no idea why this was left off my original list)
Mozart - K216 (No. 3)
Szymanowski No. 1
Ginastera
Prokofiev No. 2
Holliger
Tchaikovsky
Taneyev Suite
& free space for Schuman (the one with one n), Dutilleux or Ligeti

[mc ukrneal]

Big changes since 2013. For example I can rank them in order now.

1. Sibelius
2. Shostakovich No. 1
3. Barber
4. Tchaikovsky
5. Brahms
6. Wieniawski No. 2
7. Mendelssohn
8. Mozart No. 3
9. Suk ("Fantasy")
10. Prokofiev No. 2

Hon. Mentions: Dvorak, Salonen, JS Bach
Major works I haven't heard: Elgar, Shostakovich No. 2, Schumann

Your mission is clear...

[kyjo]

I'm having too much fun resurrecting these old polls!

Barber
Britten
Castelnuovo-Tedesco 1 Concerto Italiano
Dvořák
Karłowicz
Khachaturian
Nielsen
Prokofiev 1
Saint-Saëns 3
Sibelius

[Daverz]

I'm having too much fun resurrecting these old polls!

Barber
Britten
Castelnuovo-Tedesco 1 Concerto Italiano
Dvořák
Karłowicz
Khachaturian
Nielsen
Prokofiev 1
Saint-Saëns 3
Sibelius

That's impressive company for the Karlowicz and Castelnuovo-Tedesco concertos, I'll have to give them a listen.  I would have thought the "big" C-T concerto, the one that Heifetz recorded, would have made it first.

My initial list in this thread 10 years ago was

Barber
Bartok
Beethoven
Brahms
Frank Martin
Nielsen
Prokofiev 1 & 2
Shostakovkich 1
Sibelius
Szymanowski 1

I celebration of the 10 years, here's a second list of 10 concertos:

Stravinsky
Britten
Elgar
Walton
Dvorak
Martinu 1
Weinberg
Bacewicz 1
Bernstein Serenade
Glass 1

[Kit]

Bach for 2V
Beethoven
Brahms
Bruch
Dvorak
Mendelssohn
Mozart No 5
Paganini No 1
Sibelius
Tchaikovsky

[Luke]

I never did this thread, so here's my fairly predictable and boring list, sticking purely to pieces called Concerto (i/e/ no other violin+orchestra pieces, or it would get unwieldy):

Elgar - easily the best
Janacek's reconstructed one
Berg
Ligeti
Szymanowski 1
Brahms
Bartok 2
Dvorak
Sibelius
Mendelssohn or Beethoven. Depends on the day.

Prokofiev and Shostakovich have to fight it out for scraps.

[kyjo]

That's impressive company for the Karlowicz and Castelnuovo-Tedesco concertos, I'll have to give them a listen.  I would have thought the "big" C-T concerto, the one that Heifetz recorded, would have made it first.

The Karlowicz is perhaps my all-time favorite VC - it's a gloriously life-affirming work teeming with memorable melodic material (there are mulitple fine recordings available). Oddly enough, I'm not particularly fond of anything else Karlowicz wrote (some rather depressing tone poems and a derivatively Tchaikovskian "Rebirth" Symphony ). And I very much love both Castelnuovo-Tedesco VCs, but I wanted to give a shout-out to the First because it's usually overlooked in favor of the Second. It's only received one recording so far (on Naxos - fortunately it's an excellent one).

[AnotherSpin]

In no particular order: Beethoven, Sibelius, Prokofiev 1, Korngold, Berg, Brahms, Elgar, Khachaturian, Vivaldi Seasons, Pettersson 2.

[Daverz]

Janacek's reconstructed one

I'm normally skeptical of reconstructed works, but this one is really enjoyable.