What are your most favorite violin concerti?



Mine are:

Beethoven's,
Tchaikovsky Concerto in D,
and Mendelssohn's in Em

Many would argue with me but I think the best of them all by far is from Beethoven. I know a lot of people including those in the academic circle believe it's the Tchaikovsky concerto.

But anyway that's only my opinion.
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Beethoven. Oistrakh/Cluytens on EMI
Mozart 5-I like Andrew Manze cycle the best.
Bach-Rachel Podger on Channel Classic 
Mendelsohn-take your pick here-I will go with Perlman or Michael Rabin.
Brahms-Leonid Kogan/Monteux and the Boston.SO
Bruch-Francescatti/Schippers NYP
Sibelius- Francescatti/Bernstein NYP
Barber-Vadim Guzman in BIS
Korngold-Ditto
Tchaikovsky-many favorites Heifetz/Reiner today’s pick
Shostakovich 1- Oistrakh/ Metropolous in excellent mono, Vengerov/Rostropovich in stereo.
Prokofiev 1&2- I like Steinbacher on Pentatone-not the flashiest but she seems to humanize them
works I have never grown to like-Bartok, Elgar, Britten

this survey ignores the bazillion Vivaldi,Tartini, and other baroque masters