<p>mendelssohn is like the world's number 1 most played violin concerto and im sick of it =D bruch is overplayed too. </p>
<p>tchaik is indeed amazing tho =D</p>
<p>my list is quite similar to nervous_breakdown's</p>
<p>also, have any of you noticed that the beginning of the wieniawski is very similar to the beginning of the saen-sans violin concerto? and also, yeah, athlon - my favorite piano concerto is rach 2.</p>
<p>I am so glad there is a post about this!</p>
<p>I can't remember some and I have many to list, but I will just post these (in case you can't tell, I love strings):</p>
<p>Concerto For Violin And Orchestra In D Major Op. 35: Allegro Moderato - Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky</p>
<p>Concerto In D Major For Violin, Strings And Cembalo: Allegro - Antonio Lucio Vivaldi</p>
<p>Trio In E Flat Major For Violin, Cello, And Piano: Allegro Moderato - Franz Peter Schubert</p>
<p>Symphonie Espagnole Op. 21: Rondo Allegro - </p>
<p>Wow you guys have mentioned pretty much ALL of the classical music I like.</p>
<p>There's one though, by Chopin, I don't remember the exact name, but it's an etude in E major (piano)....
And an easy one - Granados' "Danza Espanola No. 2"</p>
<p>Moonlight first movement is my fav tho (wrote my CommanApp essay on this!!)</p>
<p>just a few off the top of my head . . . there's so many great pieces out there.
-Basically anything by Chopin, especially the nocturnes and etudes
-Clair de Lune by Debussy (has nobody mentioned this one yet?)
-Beethoven's Pastorale Sonata, which I'm playing now
-Bach fugues and cello suites</p>
<p>nervous_breakdown... yes i have played both... shrek2004, if music is truly great, then it is never overplayed... just underappreciated</p>
<p>wieniawski's obertass rocks.</p>
<p>cujoe, music can indeed be overplayed...and this means it's overappreciated if anything. idk, i'd like the concertos a whole lot more if not as many people played them. there's an overwhelming amount of music that hasn't been exposed enough just because people are stuck on Canon in D and the four seasons.</p>
<p>p.s. i just realized that sounded argumentative; it's not meant to be. sry =)</p>
<p>I know it's cliche, but Shostakovich Trio No. 2.
In fact, anything by Shostakovich, really.
Bach everything, of course (of the cello suites, No. 6 is my favourite, but also the hardest, so I haven't played it yet, alas).
Some other good guys, in no particular order: Brahms, Penderecki, Stravinsky, Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy (man, have you heard his cello sonata? Fantastic!), Schubert, R Strauss, Eliott Carter, Poulenc... dudes, too many to list!
Composers I don't like so much: Dvorak, Elgar (what kind of a cellist am I, anyway? ;)), Saint-Saens, Barber... more, but I can't think of them. I find them all somewhat glib.</p>
<p>you don't like barber? adagio for strings is one of the greatest pieces I've ever played! it's so amazing! <em>swoons</em></p>
<p>again....i loved adagio for strings until after about the 5th time i played it in various orchestras.</p>
<p>"wieniawski's obertass rocks."</p>
<p>I am sure he is spinning in his grave.</p>
<p>"Composers I don't like so much: Dorvak"</p>
<p>Are you kdding? :eek:</p>
<p>Dvorak rules. I also love Bach cello suites and Debussy "Girl with the Flaxened Hair." A senior from last year arranged the piece of five saxophones. It sounded so amazing.</p>
<p>dvorak symphony no.8
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<p>p.s.
"I am sure he is spinning in his grave."
what do you mean?</p>
<p>Dvorak's one of those guys who sounds good and comes up with pretty melodies and on the surface he's fantastic. And he's certainly fun to play, since with most of his music you can be cheesy and self-indulgent: a cellist's trademark! But I find when I look deeper than that, there's not much there. He's a suave fellow, but how can he even approach Bach?</p>
<p>no one mentioned Scheherazade...its sooo amazing =D</p>
<p>ooh... 'nother one... brahms violin concerto op 77 played by heifetz and oistrakh... AMAZING... vengerov ruins it with his untimely rubato... god how i loathe him... not as a person... as an artist</p>