Violin Forum

[Hamfast]

Have you heard a lot of violin music?
Do you have any favourite violin concertos or other pieces?
I like these concertos:
Tchaikowski's D major
Bruch's g minor
Wieniawski's fis minor
Brahms's D major.

[lenny]

i love the mendy e minor concerto and want to transcribe it for piano someday

[Brian Healey]

John Cage's violin music is very cool.

I'm speaking in particular about his "Freeman Etudes," played wonderfully by Irvine Arditti, but his other violin works are pretty killer as well.



Peace,
Bri

[klavierkonzerte]

may fav. concertos are

berg     (it's not for every one)
stravinsky
elgar
sibelius
shostakovich A major
mozart   first 4th
barber
pendrecki both
szymanouski first
brahms
jouchim hungarian
paganini   all of them
lalo symphony espagnole
vieuxtemps   the first four concertos
all bach
many vivaldi
both dohnanyi
glazunov
walton
nielsen
william schuman (not robert schumann)
chaussohn poem


also check out ysaye solo sonatas but good luck finding a good recording, most violinist rape those pieces

[SteinwayTony]

also check out ysaye solo sonatas but good luck finding a good recording, most violinist rape those pieces

An album of these was recently released (past month or so).  Gramophone loved it, if I remember correctly, and they've been getting progressively pickier.

[klavierkonzerte]

i want to add

bartok both
prokofiev first   (i LOVE the third movment)

i never heared the busoni violin concerto but some say it's a masterpiece.


also a very intresting piece is prepetume (spelling) mobile  by novacek, i like sterns recording.

mmmmmmm what more......
ya there's also scherzo tarentelle by wieniawski
valse scherzo by tchaikovsky
bartok solo violin sonata, i don't like most of it but the fuga is one of the best violin pieces i have ever heared.
bachs chaccone
vitalis chaccone (heart breaking)
corellis lafolia
the devila trill by tartini