Something very hard for the violin and easy for the piano

[cardamome]

Hello,
I'm a not-too-good amateur pianist (working on Schubert D.946 n°2 at the moment, Rachmaninoff op. 3 n.2 last year, for example). A friend of mine is an extremely good violinist.
Is there something we would play together where everybody would have fun? I've looked at piano transcription of violin concertos, but I'm not convinced by how it sounds. (Too much listening to the orchestra version:) )

Any idea?

Thanks!

[49410enrique]

not terribly difficult on the violin side but certainly not easy either, makes for a fun piece, am working on this now with a good little violinist and the piano part's not too shabby, could certainly be a nightmare like many orchestra reductions are but i think kabalevsky himself did the reduction for these,

Kabalevsky_violin concerto in C, Op. 48

[cardamome]

Kabalevsky sounds great!

[yodaofpiano]

I think one of my favorites is Sarasate's Zapateado. Piano part is not too hard, but the violin is fairly challenging. It definitely qualifies as a "showy" piece for the violin. Video of Midori if you're not familiar with the piece:

. Good Luck.