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LAS14

(14,691 posts) Fri Feb 12, 2021, 02:53 PM Feb 2021

Are there "five great violin concertos?"

When we're in the car, trying to identify music and it's a violin concerto, I run through what I thought were "the five," Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Bruch and Sibelius. But I heard the Sibelius today and it was totally not familiar. Didn't sound "great" either. Are there five? If so, what are they?

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Are there "five great violin concertos?" (Original Post) LAS14 Feb 2021 OP

Yes elleng Feb 2021 #1

Oooh!!!! Of course!!! Mendelssohn!!! I always listed him too. I must have been listing 6. LAS14 Feb 2021 #6

Check out the Turbineguy Feb 2021 #2

add Mendelsohn to Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Bruch. elleng Feb 2021 #3

Definitely Mendelssohn SCantiGOP Feb 2021 #5

Yup, that's it. I must have been listing 6 all those times. nt LAS14 Feb 2021 #7

Give the Sibelius a few more listens Blue Owl Feb 2021 #4

And then there are Mozart and Paganini. joshdawg Feb 2021 #8

elleng

(136,071 posts)

1. Yes

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 02:57 PM

Feb 2021

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=392864798823122

LAS14

(14,691 posts)

6. Oooh!!!! Of course!!! Mendelssohn!!! I always listed him too. I must have been listing 6.

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 04:02 PM

Feb 2021

Thank you!!!

Turbineguy

(38,381 posts)

2. Check out the

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 03:02 PM

Feb 2021

Aaron Rosand Sibelius recording.

elleng

(136,071 posts)

3. add Mendelsohn to Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Bruch.

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 03:08 PM

Feb 2021

SCantiGOP

(14,240 posts)

5. Definitely Mendelssohn

Reply to elleng (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 03:45 PM

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Probably my favorite

LAS14

(14,691 posts)

7. Yup, that's it. I must have been listing 6 all those times. nt

Reply to elleng (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 04:03 PM

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Blue Owl

(54,755 posts)

4. Give the Sibelius a few more listens

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 03:24 PM

Feb 2021

Maybe try out some different recordings with different soloists. It may grow on you after that. Some might say it doesn't have the immediate appeal the other four concertos seem to have.

FYI I like the recordings by Pinchas Zukerman and Anne Sophie Mutter but there are many great ones out there to select from...

joshdawg

(2,714 posts)

8. And then there are Mozart and Paganini.

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:13 PM

Feb 2021

The "great" are almost purely subjective, just like music and art and many others.
Personally, and I may have had my head buried in the sand but, I have never heard of the "five great violin concerti" being called that. Whether they were the ones mentioned or any of the others that are still extant.
just sayin'

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