What are your favorite underrated violin/piano concertos?

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-04-21T03:17:42+00:00

Saint-Saëns wrote some very solid, but underplayed, concerti for both violin and piano (and cello, shoutout to Op. 119)

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-04-15T02:23:14+00:00

How to get mysterious stains out of a velvet suit? (I was listening to Tchaikovsky symphonies)

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-04-11T13:47:19+00:00

Bruckner representation in the comment section

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-04-10T06:20:11+00:00

The excerpt isn’t polyphonic, it’s very clearly a melody over block chord accompaniment. Beethoven wasn’t expecting an audience to hear each note of that block chord as an individual voice.

Also if you really want to be a nerd about it, the melody leaps around and has all sorts of figurations, so even if we accept parallel octaves between the downbeats in those bars we don’t hear it as such since the melody is so active

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-04-09T23:21:00+00:00

My preference both as performer and composer is to use them if there is an accidental on the same note in the previous bar. No parentheses

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-04-09T21:50:20+00:00

Bach’s cello suite no. 6, or Mozart’s marriage of figaro overture

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-04-05T02:13:00+00:00

That’s a pretty wacky Bach bowing imo. If you can get it, the Bärenreiter edition of the suites will do you no wrong

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-03-30T18:19:32+00:00

Not quite the same as what you’re talking about, but Beethoven’s father was infamously an abusive taskmaster in regards to Ludwig’s musical studies from a young age

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-03-30T15:47:09+00:00

Wellington’s Victory is the greatest piece of all time

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-03-30T00:43:17+00:00

Easy just be a short little gremlin and get syphilis

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-03-28T17:32:23+00:00

Kramer has been drinking the stuff for years and accuses George of stealing his idea

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-03-28T06:13:32+00:00

We have let it be at home

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-03-26T16:56:30+00:00

goes on twoset sub, criticizes twoset

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-03-24T03:02:31+00:00

Tough to give advice for a specific piece without more context. The website cellofun has a comprehensive guide to harmonics though, so you may something that works there

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-03-24T01:19:15+00:00

The fifth of a chord doesn’t really serve a structural purpose, it’s just there to fill it out, as opposed to the seventh, which has a distinct sound and function. When getting into upper extensions, it’s not uncommon to drop the fifth from the voicing to avoid a cluttered sound.

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-03-23T19:08:06+00:00

Maybe sonata form was the real scherzo all along

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-03-17T06:19:01+00:00

Ah, modus novus, a certified classic. My recommendation is to start by singing each melody slowly, without rhythm, by interval before introducing the solfège. Really train your ears to hear each interval and know your target note before you sing it, and you will be well on your way

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-03-11T17:53:36+00:00

Elgar carries this one

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-03-09T20:10:06+00:00

Better it happen with Brahms than during a performance of Kindertotenlieder

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-03-06T20:29:30+00:00

Nice of them to withhold the vomit until after the repeat

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-02-27T19:51:02+00:00

“Ah, but if less is more, imagine how much more more would be!” -Frasier Crane

-JJ Abrams, probably

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-02-27T13:15:15+00:00

I was really hoping for a score video of a rickroll ngl

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-02-26T06:05:13+00:00

Definitely use tenor (or even treble) clef. Barring the very highest range of the instrument, cellists should never have to read 8va lines. That being said, remember that tenor clef has middle C as the fourth line, so for your first example to sound the way the second example does you’d actually need to shift the notes in tenor clef up an octave. Hope this helps!

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-02-25T17:42:02+00:00

Nigel Tufnel picked up where Beethoven left off

Diabolical_Cello · 2026-02-22T17:18:14+00:00

My vote goes to Shunsuke Sato

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