Vilaas Shetty wrote: >I'm fairly new to exploring classical music, and I rather like violin >concerto's and am trying to find ones I like. Any suggestions for which >ones to listen to? ... Glazunov, Taneyev, Dvorak, Rawsthorne, Aho, Bax, Avshalomov, Paganini, Saint-Saens, Arnold -- jusyt a few suggestions from my recent past. I find violin concertos to be particularly satisfying -- partially because I used to play (with lots of enthusiasm and little efficiency) and partially because I think the violin is a wonderfully apt partner for an orchestra. The sounds just seem to belong together somehow. Tim Mahon [log in to unmask]