Musical work for solo violin and ensemble
David Oistrakh playing a violin concerto, 1960A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble (customarily orchestra ). Such works have been written since the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day. Many major composers have contributed to the violin concerto repertoire.
Traditionally a three-movement work, the violin concerto has been structured in four movements by a number of modern composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich , Igor Stravinsky , and Alban Berg .[a] In some violin concertos, especially from the Baroque and modern eras, the violin (or group of violins) is accompanied by a chamber ensemble rather than an orchestra—for instance, in Vivaldi's L'estro armonico , originally scored for four violins, two violas, cello, and continuo , and in Allan Pettersson 's first concerto, for violin and string quartet.
List of violin concertos The following concertos are presently found near the center of the mainstream Western repertoire.
John Adams Malcolm Arnold Johann Sebastian Bach Samuel Barber Béla Bartók Ludwig van Beethoven Alban Berg Ernest Bloch Nimrod Borenstein Concerto for violin and orchestra opus 60 (2013) Johannes Brahms Benjamin Britten Max Bruch Henri Casadesus Frederick Delius Henri Dutilleux Antonín Dvořák Danny Elfman Edward Elgar Eduard Franck Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 30 (1855/1861) Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 57 (1875) Richard Franck Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 43 (1906) Hans Gal Violin Concerto Op. 39 (1932) Concertino for Violin and Orchestra Op. 52 (1939) Philip Glass Alexander Glazunov Karl Goldmark Georg Friedrich Händel Violin Concerto in B flat major, HWV 288 (ca. 1707) Joseph Haydn Jennifer Higdon Paul Hindemith Robin Holloway Violin Concerto Op. 70 (1990) Akira Ifukube Rhapsodia Concertante for Violin and Orchestra (1948) Violin Concerto No. 2 (1978) Shin'ichiro Ikebe Joseph Joachim Mieczysław Karłowicz Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 8 (1902) Aram Khachaturian Ståle Kleiberg Violin Concerto no. 1 (2005) Violin Concerto no. 2 (2017) Erich Wolfgang Korngold Édouard Lalo Jean-Marie Leclair12 concertos for violin and orchestra op.7 & op.10 Marian LejavaVertigo - Concerto for Violin and Ensemble Op. 23 (2018) Lowell Liebermann Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 74 (2001) Avrohom LeichtlingConcerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 95 (1988–1991) György Ligeti Karol Lipiński Violin Concerto No. 1 Op. 14 in F ♯ minor (1822) Violin Concerto No. 2 "Militaire" Op. 21 in D major (1826) Violin Concerto No. 3 Op. 24 in E minor (1830–33) Violin Concerto No. 4 Op. 32 in A major (1844) Wynton Marsalis Henri Marteau Violin Concerto in C Major, Op. 18 (1916) Bohuslav Martinů Felix Mendelssohn Edgar Meyer Nikolai Myaskovsky Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 44 (1938) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 1 in B♭ major, K. 207 (1773), with alternative Rondo in B♭ , K. 269/261a (added 1775–1777)Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 211 (1775)Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216 , Strassburg (1775)Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218 (1775)Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219 , Turkish (1775), with alternative Adagio in E, K. 261 (added 1776)Violin Concerto No. 6 in E-flat major, K. 268 (Attributed to Johann Friedrich Eck, 1780–81)Violin Concerto No. 7 in D major, K. 271a , Kolb (Doubtful, 1777)Adélaïde Concerto (Forgery by Marius Casadesus , 1933)Marjan Mozetich Affairs of the Heart: Violin Concerto (1998) Carl Nielsen Michael Nyman Niccolò Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 6, MS 21 (ca. 1811–17)Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 7, MS 48 , La Campanella (1826)Violin Concerto No. 3 in E major, MS 50 (ca. 1826–30)Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor, MS 60 (ca. 1829–30)Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, MS 78 (1830)Violin Concerto No. 6 in E minor, Op. posth., MS 75—probably the first to be written; only the solo part survives Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Violin Concerto in B flat major Manuel M. Ponce Gerhard Präsent Violin Concerto Op. 73 (2015) André Previn Sergei Prokofiev Behzad Ranjbaran Max Reger Violin Concerto in A major Op. 101 (1907–1908) Miklós Rózsa Camille Saint-Saëns Esa-Pekka Salonen Alfred Schnittke Concerto No. 1 for violin and orchestra (1957, revised 1963) Concerto No. 2 for violin and chamber orchestra (1966) Concerto No. 3 for violin and chamber orchestra (1978) Concerto No. 4 for violin and orchestra (1984)Arnold Schoenberg Robert Schumann Laura Schwendinger Violin Concerto "Chiaroscuro Azzurro" Vache Sharafyan Concerto-Serenata for violin and strings Con-Cor-Dance Violin Concerto #2 Dmitri Shostakovich Aleksandr Shymko Peter Seabourne Violin Concerto (with string orchestra) (2018) Jean Sibelius Maddalena Laura Sirmen Richard Strauss Igor Stravinsky Karol Szymanowski Toru Takemitsu Far calls. Coming, far! for Violin and Orchestra (1980) Boris Tchaikovsky Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1969) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Daniel Theaker Henri Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 10 (1840) Violin Concerto No. 2 in F♯ minor, Op. 19 (ca. 1835–36) Violin Concerto No. 3 in A major, Op. 25 (1844) Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 31 (ca. 1850) Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, Op. 37 , Grétry (1861)Violin Concerto No. 6 in G major, Op. 47/Op. posth. 1 (1865–1870) Violin Concerto No. 7 in A minor, Op. 49/Op. posth. 3 Antonio Vivaldi — many, particularly:Giovanni Battista Viotti Violin Concerto No. 22 in A Minor William Walton Henryk Wieniawski John Williams Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1976) TreeSong: for Violin and Orchestra (2000) Malcolm Williamson Violin Concerto (1963–1964) Felix Woyrsch Skaldische Rhapsodie in D minor, Op. 50 (1904) Pēteris Vasks Tālā Gaisma ("Distant Light") (1996-7) He Zhanhao and Chen Gang
List of other works for violin and orchestra
See also
Notes ^ In Berg's concerto , the first two and last two movements are conjoined, with the only break coming between the second and third movements.