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Important Violin Repertoire

J. S. Bach:

6 Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin
Sonatas for violin and keyboard
Violin Concertos in A minor and E Major
Concerto for 2 violins in D minor

Samuel Barber

Violin Concerto

Bela Bartok

Violin Concerto
Sonata for solo violin
Sonata for violin and piano
Rumanian Folk Dances
Rhapsodies no. 1 and no. 2

Ludwig van Beethoven

Violin Concerto in D Major
10 sonatas for violin and Piano
Romances in F Major and G Major

Leonard Bernstein

Serenade for violin and orchestra

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

Rosary Sonatas
Passacaglia in G minor for solo violin
Sonatas for violin and continuo

Alban Berg

Violin Concerto

Ernest Bloch

Baal Shem Suite

Johannes Brahms

Violin Concerto
3 Sonatas for violin and piano
Sonatensatz for violin and piano
Hungarian dances arranged for violin and piano

Benjamin Britten

Violin Concerto

Max Bruch

Violin Concertos no. 1, no. 2, and no. 3
Scottish Fantasy

Ernest Chausson

Poeme

Frederick Chopin

Nocturne in C# minor Op. Posthumous

Antonin Dvorak

Violin Concerto
3 sonatinas for violin and piano
Slavonic Dances
4 Romantic Pieces

Edward Elgar

Violin Concerto
Salut d'Amor

Cesar Franck

Sonata in A major for violin and piano

Philip Glass
Violin Concerto

Glazunov
Violin Concerto

Karoly Goldmark
Violin Concerto

Edward Grieg
Sonatas for Violin and Piano Nos. 1-3

Sofia Gubaidulina
Offertorium: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra"

Dimitri Kabalevsky
Violin Concerto

Karl Amadeus Hartman
Concerto Funebre

Franz Jospeh Haydn
Violin Concertos Nos. 1-4

Aram Khachaturian
Violin Concerto

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto
Much Ado About Nothing Suite

Fritz Krielser
Tambourin Chinois
Caprice Viennoise
Recitative and Scherzo-Caprice, Op. 6
La Gitana
Liebesfreud
Liebesleid
Praeludium and Allegro
Schoen Rosmarin
Variations on a Theme by Corelli

Edouard Lalo
Symphonie Espagnole

Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E Minor
Sonatas for violin and piano

Darius Milhaud
Violin Sonatas

W. A. Mozart
Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5
Sonatas for violin and piano
Adagio in E major
Rondo in C major
Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola

Carlo Menotti
Violin Concerto

Nicolo Paganini
Violin Concertos Nos. 1-6
24 Caprices for solo violin

Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concertos no. 1 and 2
Sonata for violin and piano
Sonata for 2 violins

Maurice Ravel
Tzigane

Ottorino Respighi
Sonata for violin and piano

George Rochberg
Capraices

Camille Saint-Saens
Violin Concertos nos. 1-3
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Introduction and Rondo Capricioso
Havanaise

Pablo de Sarasate
Carmen Fantasy
Ziegeunerweisen
Malaguena
Romanza Andaluza
Zapateado

Alfred Schnittke
Violin Concertos nos. 1-4

Franz Schubert
Fantasie in C major
3 Sonatinas for violin and piano
Rondo in B-flat major

Robert Schumann
Violin Concerto
Sonata for violin and piano

Dimitri Shostakovich
Violin Concerto No. 1
Violin Concerto No. 2

Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto
Nocturne

Christian Sinding
Suite for violin and piano

Richard Strauss
Sonata for violin and piano
Violin Concerto

Igor Stravinsky
Violin Concerto
Suite Italienne

Karol Szymanowski
Violin Concerto no. 1
Violin Concerto No. 2

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D major

Peteris Vasks
Violin Concerto

Henryk Wieniawski
Violin Concerto No. 1
Violin Concerto No. 2
Legende
Etude-Caprices
Scherzo-Tarantella

Concert Violinists

Itzhak Perlman

Fritz Kreisler

Christian Tetzlaf

Maxim Vegerov

Anne-Sophie Mutter

David Oistrakh

Igor Oistrakh

Arthur Shumsky

Arthur Grumiaux

Jascha Heifetz

Mischa Elman

Gil Shaham

Pinchas Zukerman

Hilary Hahn

Jennifer Koh

Mark O'Connor

Vadim Repim

Joshua Bell

Issac Stern

Stephane Grappelli

Yehudi Menhuin

Augustin Hadelich

Leila Josefowicz

Sarah Chang

Midori

Andrew Manze

Jaap Schroeder

Rachel Podger

Rachel Barton Pine

Natalie MacMaster

Michael Rabin

Jelly d'Aranyi

Joseph Joachim

Jacques Thibaud

Ginette Neveu

Georges Enscu

Maud Powell

Renaud Capucon

Vilde Frang

Oleh Krysa

Nigel Kennedy

Henning Kraggerud

Janine Jansen

Caroline Goulding