Orchestra sinfonica: Assolo per violino

Nel 1775, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) scrisse i suoi cinque concerti per violino per Gaetano Brunetti, violinista alla corte di Salisburgo dove ricopriva il ruolo di Konzertmeister. In una let...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote the SERENADE No. 5 in D Major, K. 204/213a on August 5, 1775 for ceremonies at the University of Salzburg. Concurrently writing his five violin concertos, the...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote the SERENADE No. 5 in D Major, K. 204/213a on August 5, 1775 for ceremonies at the University of Salzburg. Concurrently writing his five violin concertos, the...

Violin virtuoso and composer Niccolò Paganini's (1782-1840) Concerto for Violin No. 1 in D, Op. 6 was written between 1817 and 1818, with the premiere taking place on March 31, 1819, in Naples, Italy....

Violin virtuoso and composer Niccolò Paganini's (1782-1840) Concerto for Violin No. 1 in D, Op. 6 was written between 1817 and 1818, with the premiere taking place on March 31, 1819, in Naples, Italy....

Il terzo movimento del CONCERTO PER VIOLINO N. 2 di Niccolò Paganini deve il suo soprannome "La Clochette" o "La Campanella" ("Campanella") alla campanella che suona prima di ogni ricorrenza del tema...

The rondo third movement of Niccolò Paganini's VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2 owes its nickname La Clochette or La Campanella (Little Bell) to the little bell which plays before each recurrence of the rondo th...

In la minore, scritta nel 1863, ma eseguita per la prima volta solo nel 1867 dal violinista Pablo de Sarasate, al quale è dedicata e diretta dall'autore, l'INTRODUZIONE E RONDO CAPRICCIOSO era origina...

Scritta da Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) nel 1878, Zigeunerweisen (Arie gitane), op. 20 è una delle opere preferite dai virtuosi del violino, essendo stata registrata più volte, anche dallo stesso Sar...

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...

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...