Orchestra sinfonica: Assolo per violino

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote his VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MINOR, Op. 8, between 1881 and 1882, and it remained his only foray in that genre. Composed while a teenager and still in school. While still...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote his VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MINOR, Op. 8, between 1881 and 1882, and it remained his only foray in that genre. Composed while a teenager and still in school. While still...

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) dedicò originariamente il suo CONCERTO PER VIOLINO in re, op. 35, a Leopold Auer. Il violinista ungherese concluse che era troppo difficile. Il concerto fu finalm...

Paragonato a Niccolò Paganini dall'amico Robert Schumann, Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881) fu un noto violinista virtuoso della scuola violinistica franco-belga della metà del XIX secolo. Aspirando a dive...

Les Sylphides is a ballet blanc set to the music of Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) by Russian composer, teacher, and conductor Alexander Glazunov. Described as a “romantic reverie” by dance historian and...

Composto probabilmente nei primi mesi del 1877, il VALSE SCHERZO, OP. 34, occupa una posizione importante nell'opera di Pietro Il'ič Čajkovskij (1840-1893), poiché lo preparò a iniziare il lavoro sul...

The ROMANCE in F minor, Op. 11 (B. 39) was composed by Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) in 1877, reworked from the Andantino movement of his 1873 STRING QUARTET NO. 5 in F minor, a work written before he wa...

Una delle sue opere più lunghe e l'ultima a godere di immediata popolarità, il Concerto per violino in si minore op. 61 di Edward Elgar (1857-1934) ha sempre trovato posto nei programmi dei concerti,...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) "Vocalise" was originally written in 1912 (revised in 1915) as the final movement in his 14 ROMANCES, Op. 34, for high voice with piano accompaniment. The work has be...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) "Vocalise" was originally written in 1912 (revised in 1915) as the final movement in his 14 ROMANCES, Op. 34, for high voice with piano accompaniment. The work has be...

Though Hubay was best known as a violinist, he also distinguished himself as a composer. His FANTAISIE BRILLANTE was written in 1877. Demanding considerable technique, it contains the opera's greatest...

Tzigane è una composizione rapsodica del compositore francese Maurice Ravel. Fu commissionata e dedicata alla violinista ungherese Jelly d'Arányi, pronipote dell'influente virtuoso del violino Joseph...

Sergei Prokofjew (1891-1953) began his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19, as a concertino in 1915 but soon abandoned it to work on his opera, The Gambler. He returned to the concerto in the sum...

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) iniziò il suo Concerto per violino n. 1 in re maggiore, op. 19, come concertino nel 1915, ma lo abbandonò presto per lavorare all'opera Il giocatore. Tornò al concerto nel...

Devotion (Ab imo pectore) is the second half of Jean Sibelius' (1865-1957) Two Pieces for Violin or Cello and Orchestra, Op. 77. Completed in 1915, the first performance was held in Helsinki on March...

Devotion (Ab imo pectore) is the second half of Jean Sibelius' (1865-1957) Two Pieces for Violin or Cello and Orchestra, Op. 77. Completed in 1915, the first performance was held in Helsinki on March...

Der italienische Geiger und Komponist Federigo Fiorillo wurde in Deutschland geboren (1755 - gest. nach 1823). Als Vortragskünstler bereiste er zahlreiche europäische Länder: 1777 konzertierte er in S...

Johann Michael HAYDN ist Anfang September 1737 in Rohrau, Niederösterreich geboren. Von 1745 an war er Chorknabe am St. Stefansdom in Wien. 1757 empfahl man ihn Bischof Pál Forgách, der ihn zum Kapell...

Von Franz Krommer sind bis heute 9 Violinkonzerte bekannt, die - ausser dem aus der frühesten Schaffensperiode stammende Konzert in F-Dur' - alle nach 1800 entstanden sind. Ausser diesem als erstes We...

The Variations on a Theme from Bellini's 'Norma' were written by Vieuxtemps as a youth for his 1834 concert tour. They offer a thrilling concert piece and can be used in the training of young violinis...

Vieuxtemps became acquainted with the Rákóczi March in 1843 during a concert tour to Pest and wrote his own version of it there, which he immediately premiered with great success. The concerts in Pest...

Vieuxtemps' 'Bohémienne' was published in 1864 as No. 3 of the 'Three Album Pieces' Op. 40. At that time, however, he had already revised his work and made a version with orchestral accompaniment from...

La Tarantella op. 22, n. 5 del virtuoso e compositore belga Henri Vieuxtemps appartiene alle opere standard della letteratura violinistica. Compare spesso nei programmi di concorsi e concerti e ne son...