What about his F Minor concerto? I wouldn't necessarily call it part of the standard repertory, but it's not lying in total neglect, either.

I played the preludes on my first full solo recital. They were a lot of fun!

I was wondering about the Concerto in F and how "standard" it is, too. A couple of my friends play it, and it also was some inspiration for Ravel's Concerto in G (same sort of title, and similar styles).

I read through 3rd movement of Brahms Concerto 1 today. WOW. It's so spectacular and brilliant! The brutal contrapuntal and classicist sound with deep booming bass (which Brahms loved to use) is my favorite (and ideal) style of music to play!

My teacher would love for me to learn the Brahms 1, because he thinks I have a really good sound for it, but he is starting me off with smaller Brahms works to build my way up, be experienced with Brahms, and really "grab the bull by the horns" instead of have a constant epic struggle with it.

I love Brahms!!!

Well get on the stick!!!!!

(Whooops, what did I say.......)

Darn good diet.
You could live on that for a lifetime.

I love Brahms and want to learn the 1st Concerto too! Right now I'm working on the Variations Op. 21 No. 1, and after that I want to learn one of the sonatas (I would really love to learn the 3rd), and then on to the concerto! Which means I will probably not start working on it for at least another year... :P

Not very good range!!!!! ....you left out quite a few composers:

Kalkbrenner
Hummel
Gottschalk
Berwald
Salieri
Field
Chaminade (so as not to be too sexist)
others too numerous to mention

.....and of course....

John Cage

I don't imagine you mean THIS.....

Tell us (in days) when you LAST PLAYED
(0 = current)

1. Beethoven - 0, op. 90
2. Chopin - 200ish, f minor concerto
3. Gershwin - 500, only some of the concerto
4. Mozart - 7, violin concerto in A
5. Brahms - 90, haydn variations

let's add Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Ravel?

You mean on the violin?
Or, the orchestra part on the piano?

I'll substitute Liszt for Gershwin. Play something there every day.

Looks like my unintentional intentional double entendre didn't work....

Actually there is a song called 'Once in a Blue Moon'. It's from the musical Little Mary Sunshine by Rick Besoyan.

But just to rearrange the averages, I played the Brahms Op. 21 this evening followed by some selections from the Gershwin Songbook. Then a bit of the Gershwin Concerto.

Don't really care what anyone says about that concerto. It has steadfastly been a favourite. In my luggage to the desert island you will find the Busoni, both Brahms, the Liszt Eb, Beethoven 3 and 5, Prokofiev 3, Mozart 21 and 25... and the Gershwin.

Haydn OR Handel variations???

After 10 entries the following pattern emerges in terms of days last played.

Chopin: 4 daily ... with hardly a miss
(except for one troll)
Brahms: 3 daily ... either like or dislike
Beethoven: 2 daily ... but mostly weekly
Mozart : fortnightly
Gershwin: once in a blue, blue moon
(falling off the chart)

Beethoven... 7: 14: 10: 2: 5: 0: 2: 3: 0: 2:
Chopin ....... 0: 0: 1: 2: 0: 0: 14:14: 200:2 :
Gershwin.... 0: 60: 100: 400: nil: nil: 3: 400 :500: 90:
Mozart........ 14: 30: 7: 10: 20: 9: 3: 30: 7: 30:
Brahms ...... 60: 0: 7: 100: 0: 0: 3: 2: 90: 20:

Ohhh nooeess, all the respect, build up in years, its... its...

gone

The two piano one!!! Haydn!!

haha orchestra part of course!

I wouldn't say the works are neglected persay. You look at works such as the Hungarian Dance and Intermezzo, played pretty regulary by professionals. He's just not played quite as much as the likes of Mozart, Chopin etc.

No more respect for Beethoven?

I once got a speeding ticket because of that version of Blue Moon. I got a little carried away singing the bass part.

Great little story.
I think you woulda been going even faster if you were singing the tenor part.

That version is incredible, in every sense of the word. HOW did anyone ever come up with that??? It's so far from the original that I didn't recognize on my own that they were related (partly because I never much hear lyrics).

P.S. Did you also ever try the bass part of "Mr. Bassman"?
(BTW I think the same guy did the bass part on both original recordings.)

Haha this got me thinking about the Grease movie

I didn't know you were working on that !! Great piece !! The orchestral version isn't all that shabby either !!

Is that because you went to Northwestern University? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKmUDMa6JG8)

-Jason

I don't get it.

I assume you're familiar with the piece... Did you click on the youtube link?

-J

Ah! No, I didn't click the link actually...duh! =p I get it now.

I had no idea that the NWU "school song" uses the theme from the Brahms' Variations on Theme by Haydn (which, as I understand it, was not actually written by Haydn).

Seems to me that if they really wanted to use Brahms they should have borrowed "Gaudeamus igitur" from the Academic Festival Overture !!

I would have been a little disappointed if you had clicked on the link and still didn't get it.

I'm sure a lot of people would've felt the same way. =)