violinfiddler Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 *yawn* Anyway, Ioanna, keep me informed of your progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioanna302 Posted August 16, 2007 Author Share Posted August 16, 2007 *yawn*Anyway, Ioanna, keep me informed of your progress. thanks alot everyone! you really helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gollum69 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 I know the time for this has long gone. But I'd think that if one is looking to play a violin concerto, Vivaldi would be the FIRST place to look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 *Speaks stiffly from behind a mask* Play Salieri. And of course the implication is play my violin concerto. :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exist Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 You should consider Carl Nielsen's Violin Concerto. It is not very well known, at least not as known as it deserves to be, but none the less extremely good and, I believe, technically challenging. EDIT: Ah, OK, I see this advice is a bit "overdue" ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romanticist Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 There are 2 really nice ones by Bach- I'm preferential to the E-major one.Handel's Sonata a Cinque may be permissable as a violin concerto, although it leans more towards the side of a concerto grosso. There's a Beethoven one, a buttload by Vivaldi, and Mendelssohn's is one that I am preferential to also. Those are all the major solo ones I can think of. Have the sheet music to that one very fun baroque piece to play, it is a little on the intermediate side, but a joy and happy piece to play! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 My favorite concerto is Tchai's violin concerto (#2?). If I could play anything, that would be the one thing that I would want to play on the Violin. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romanticist Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 My favorite concerto is Tchai's violin concerto (#2?). If I could play anything, that would be the one thing that I would want to play on the Violin. :D His second violin concerto eh? I'm really not a fan of tchaikovsky's violin concertos I love the finale of the swan lake though, perhaps the greatest finale of a ballet of all time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_is_D Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Tchaikovsky only wrote ONE violin concerto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romanticist Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Well excuse me, I must have been listening to snippets of the same one MisD, do you have a proffered composer for violin concertos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_is_D Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 A single one? Not really. I love many. Vivaldi and Bach have nice pleasant ones, although the brilliant stuff really begins at Mozart IMO. The Beethoven is absolutely amazing, and I also adore Mendelssohn's, Paganini's (I've heard 1, 2, 4 and 5) Bruch's 1st, Wieniawski's 2nd (which I'm playing), Tchaikovsky's, Brahms', Sibelius' and so forth. It's really impossible to choose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romanticist Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 A single one? Not really. I love many. Vivaldi and Bach have nice pleasant ones, although the brilliant stuff really begins at Mozart IMO. The Beethoven is absolutely amazing, and I also adore Mendelssohn's, Paganini's (I've heard 1, 2, 4 and 5) Bruch's 1st, Wieniawski's 2nd (which I'm playing), Tchaikovsky's, Brahms', Sibelius' and so forth. It's really impossible to choose. Love bruch's first I think its in the top five if not 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_is_D Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I've had the enormous pleasure of playing it. Except breaking down the 3rd movement bar by bar, note by note: that wasn't much fun, although it was necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kije of Prokofiev Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 I'm surprised no one has mentioned Bartok who wrote a lot of stuff for Violin, although I'm not sure how difficult it is. I believe Prokofiev wrote a couple concerti for violin, Nielsen wrote one and of course there is Berio's violin sequenza but from what it looks like, like all of his sequenzas, it looks like a royal pain in the donkey. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gollum69 Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Try Vivaldi's RV 298 in G Major. I guarantee you'll like playing it. The third movement is gonna give your fingers a good workout! In my opinion, it's one of his gems. (It's from his Opus 4) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioanna302 Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share Posted October 21, 2008 hello after a long time! well i played wieniawsky after all but my teacher promised me to let me play barber this year (in our conservatorie they don't like modern composers that much but i'll step my foot down!) You have been very very helpful, thanx a lot! P.s. I started studying devil's trill and i found that paganini's caprice n.6 helps a lot for the trill part. What do you think about this sonata? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioanna302 Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share Posted October 28, 2008 i know, where I study there's a "know it or snob it" philosophy and in addition they dislike every composer is not from europe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioanna302 Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share Posted October 28, 2008 narrow-minded i'd say but ... scallopes is ok too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmyBandsman Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 It's all about Czardas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_is_D Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Which isn't a concerto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qmwne235 Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 And if the OP is far beyond Bruch and Mendelssohn, Czardas won't be a very great challenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioanna302 Posted November 3, 2008 Author Share Posted November 3, 2008 And if the OP is far beyond Bruch and Mendelssohn, Czardas won't ba a very great challenge. that's true. My teacher now suggests prokofiev 1 or 2, haven't decided yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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