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Pianos and Pianists - Consultant Editor Ates Orga

The UK Top 10

Piano Concertos

April - June 1999

Of the 37 specified concertos scheduled in
Music and Vision
for programming nationwide between 1 April and 30 June,
the following each enjoyed more than one performance

  Composer Concerto Performances
1       Schumann              A minor 6
2 Beethoven No 4 5
Mozart No 9 5
  Mozart No 21 5
  Rachmaninov No 3 5
3 Beethoven No 3 4
Chopin No 2 4
Rachmaninov No 2 4
  Ravel G major 4
4 Brahms No 2 3
Franck Symphonic Variations 3
  Tchaikovsky No 1 3
5 Beethoven No 5 2
Brahms No 1 2
  Grieg A minor 2
  Mozart No 20 2
  Mozart No 26 2
Mozart Double Concerto 2
  Prokofiev No 3 2
  Rachmaninov No 1 2
  Strauss Burleske 2

 

Half-Year Poll

  Composer Concerto Performances
      Beethoven              No 4 14
2 Schumann A minor 10
3 Beethoven No 5 (Emperor) 9
4 Brahms No 1 7
  Grieg A minor 7
Mozart No 9 7
Mozart No 21 7
Rachmaninov No 2 7
  Tchaikovsky No 1 7
5 Beethoven No 3 6
Ravel G major 6
  Shostakovich No 2 6
6 Brahms No 2 5
Chopin No 1 5
  Mozart No 20 5
7 Beethoven No 2 4
  Chopin No 2 4
Shostakovich No 1 (piano & trumpet) 4
  Tchaikovsky No 2 4
8 Beethoven No 1 3
  Franck Symphonic Variations 3
  Mozart No 17 3
  Mozart No 24 3
  Poulenc Double Concerto 3
  Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody 3
  Strauss Burleske 3
9 Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain 2
  Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue 2
  Liszt No 1 2
  Mozart No 25 2
  Mozart No 26 (Coronation) 2
  Mozart No 27 2
  Mozart Double Concerto 2
  Prokofiev No 3 2
  Rachmaninov No 1 2

 

Piano Editor's Enterprise Choice
for the most ambitious concerto programming of the past quarter

1  Koumendakis Piano Concerto No 3 (Diary of Confinement) world premiere
London Hellenic Centre, 17 June
George Lazaridis, BT Scottish Ensemble

2  Martinu Double Concerto for piano, timpani and two string orchestras
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 5 May
Timothy Horton & Ian Wright,
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Petr Altrichter

3  Strauss Burleske
Dundee Caird Hall, 24 April
Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 25 April
Graham Scott, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev

 

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