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Description

Classical violin music refers to music composed for and played on the violin in the classical music tradition. The violin is a central instrument in classical music and has been used extensively in orchestral, chamber, and solo music for hundreds of years. Classical violin music spans a wide range of periods and styles, from Baroque to Contemporary, and includes works by composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and many others. Famous classical violinists throughout history include Niccolò Paganini, Itzhak Perlman, and Hilary Hahn.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
25		1915	Anonymous	Leopold Wallner: 1847-1913	classical classical violin harp
35		1920	Fritz Kreisler	a paganini	classical violin
23		1951	Giovanni Battista Viotti	Beethoven: Romances Nos. 1 and 2 / Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 8 / Viotti: Violin Concerto No. 3	classical classical violin
9		1967	Giuseppe Torelli	L'Arte del Violino in Italia, c. 1650-1700
64		1969	Mendelssohn	Mendelssohn, Bruch Violinconcertos
85		1972	Various Artists	Violin Recital: Michiko Kamiya	classical classical violin potpourri	potpourri # 88
70		1972	Jascha Heifetz;Sir Malcolm Sargent	Bruch/Vieuxtemps: Concertos	classical violin
20		1972	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Violin Concertos Nos. 1-3 / Rondo KV 373 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra feat. conductor, violin: David Oistrakh)
74		1974	Salvatore Accardo	Vivaldi: The Four Seasons	classical violin
12		1975	Antonín Dvořák	Dvořák & Suk: Violin Works	classical violin
77		1979	Itzhak Perlman	Tchaikovsky/mendelssohn: Violin Concertos	classical violin
8		1986-02	Antonín Dvořák	Violin Recital of Smetana, Dvořák, Janáček, Martinů, Ševčík
47		1988	Tor Aulin	Sjogren: Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 2		violin sonata # 39
28		1988	Grażyna Bacewicz	Grażyna Bacewicz	classical violin contemporary classical
98		1989	Philip Glass	Spheres - Einaudi, Glass, Nyman, Pärt, Richter
39		1990	Heinrich von Herzogenberg	Herzogenberg: Complete Violin Sonatas	classical classical violin violin sonata	violin sonata # 31
29		1991-05	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Complete Mozart Edition, Volume 15: Violin Sonatas
56		1993	Maya Homburger	G.P.H. Telemann: XII Fantasie Per Il Violino Senza Basso 1735	baroque classical violin violin sonata	violin sonata # 52
17		1994	Massimiliano Damerini & Georg Mönch	French Violin Sonatas	classical classical violin musique francaise piano violin sonata	violin sonata # 9
66		1996	Nigel Kennedy	Violin Concertos	classical violin
5		1997	Pavel Sporcl	Vivaldi - Ctvero rocnich dob / Koncert pro dvoje housle a orchestr	classical classical violin
80		1997	Salvatore Accardo	Capolavori Per Violino E Archi	classical violin
43		1997	Pavel Šporcl	Vivaldi: Four Seasons, Bach: Concerto for Two Violins and Strings / Šporcl, Prague Philharmonia
48		1999	Hélène Schmitt	Carbonelli: Sonates pour violon & basse continue	baroque classical violin italian baroque sonata violin sonata	sonata # 8 violin sonata # 42 italian baroque # 61
45		1999	Pavel Šporcl	My Violin Legends	classical violin
54		1999	Pavel Sporcl	A Paganini	classical classical crossover classical violin
87		1999	Elena Kats-Chernin	Spheres - Einaudi, Glass, Nyman, Pärt, Richter
38		2000	Pierre Amoyal & Frederic Chiu	Grieg: Violin Sonatas	classical classical violin piano violin sonata	violin sonata # 29
1		2000	Felix Mendelssohn	Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in D Minor - Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C Major	classical violin
13		2000-12	Sir Edward Elgar	Violin Concerto in Bm, Op 61
24		2001	Giovanni Maria Bononcini	L'Arte del Violino in Italia, c. 1650-1700		violin sonata # 13 italian baroque # 21
10		2001	Erich Wolfgang Korngold	Strauss / Korngold: Violin Concertos	classical classical violin
16		2001	Richard Strauss	Strauss / Korngold: Violin Concertos	classical violin
79		2001	Pavel Šporcl	Vivaldi-Piazzolla	classical violin
67		2003-01-01	Zigeunertrio Kalinka	Jalousie	classical violin gypsy
34		2004	Joachim Raff	Raff: Violin and Piano Works, Vol. 4 - Violin Sonatas No. 4 and 5
59		2005	Antonio Vivaldi	The Art of the Violin	baroque classical violin
37		2006	Steven Staryk	The Art of Steven Staryk – Handel, Mozart, Brahms, Paganini, etc
97		2006	Lera Auerbach	Spheres - Einaudi, Glass, Nyman, Pärt, Richter
100		2007	Hilary Hahn	Silfra	classical violin contemporary classical
81		2007-09-05	Anne-Sophie Mutter	Vivaldi - Le Quattro Stagioni	classical violin
6		2008	Julia Fischer	Russian Violin Concertos (Julia Fischer, Russian Natl Orch, Yakov Kreizberg)
15		2009	Jean Huré (Marie-Josèphe Jude)	Sonate Violon Piano-Quintette	classical violin piano
72		2009	Lara St. John; Eduardo Marturet: Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra Of Venezuela	Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Piazzolla: The Four Seasons Of Buenos Aires	classical violin
51		2009-07-07	Benedetti, Nicola	Fantasie
46		2010	Alexandra Soumm & David Kadouch	Grieg - The Violin Sonatas	classical violin violin sonata	violin sonata # 36
40		2010	Maria Bachmann	Kiss on Wood	classical violin piano
55		2010	Anne-Sophie Mutter & Lambert Orkis	Brahms Violin Sonatas	classical violin piano
65		2010	Maria Bachmann	Glass Heart	classical violin
86		2010	Angele Dubeau & La Pieta	Arvo Pärt: Portrait	classical violin
42		2010	Joachim Raff	Raff, J.: Sonatillen / 6 Morceaux (Neftel, Van)
53		2011	Pavel Šporcl	Sporcelain	classical violin fusion
3		2011	Holland Baroque Society, Miloš Valent	Telemann: Barbaric Beauty 18th Century Dance Transcriptions
94		2011-10-21	Hilary Hahn	Paganini / Spohr: Violin Concertos	classical violin
63		2012	Lara St. John & Marie-Pierre Langlamet	Bach: Sonatas	classical violin keyboard	keyboard # 61
88		2012	Arvo Pärt	Spheres - Einaudi, Glass, Nyman, Pärt, Richter
75		2012-03-23	Anne Akiko Meyers, English Chamber Orchestra & Steven Mercurio	Air - The Bach Album
99		2012-05-02	Hilary Hahn & Hauschka	Silfra	classical violin contemporary classical
95		2013	Itzhak Perlman	Debussy: Violin Sonata; Cello Sonata/Ravel: Piano Trio	classical violin
44		2013	Itzhak Perlman	Elgar: Violin Concerto, Op.61 / Chausson: Poème, Op.25
93		2013-05-19	Daniel Hope	Spheres	classical classical violin contemporary classical strings	strings # 28
78		2014	Joshua Bell & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields	Bach	classical classical violin
96		2014-03	John Holloway	Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland	classical violin instrumental viola	viola # 91
92		2014-08-07	Alex Baranowski	Spheres - Einaudi, Glass, Nyman, Pärt, Richter
83		2016-01-01	Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst	Ernst: Erlkönig - Le Carnaval de Venise	classical violin
30		2018-03	Emile Sauret	Sauret: Music for Violin and Piano	classical classical piano classical violin
26		2019	Susanne Lundeng	Sanger Om Sårbarhet	classical violin
32		2020	Michi Wiancko	Platinum Spirals	classical classical violin violin sonata	violin sonata # 19
22		2021	Carlo Zuccari	Zuccari: Violin Sonatas	baroque classical violin
76		2021	Salvatore Accardo	Il Vesuvio (1727)	baroque classical classical violin
31		2022-04-22	Josef Spacek	Josef Špaček - violin, Miroslav Sekera - piano / Janáček, Smetana, Prokofiev
89		2023-07-28	Hilary Hahn	Paganini / Spohr: Violin Concertos incld. Listening Guide	classical classical violin
27			Bartek Niziol	E. Ysaÿe: 6 Sonaten für Violine Solo Opus 27	classical violin violin sonata	violin sonata # 15
33			Giora Schmidt & Rohan De Silva	Giora Schmidt Live from Miami	classical classical violin violin sonata	violin sonata # 21
60			Stradivarius Project	Edward Elgar - Sergei Prokofiev - Cèsar Franck - Fritz Kreisler: Selected Works	classical classical violin violin sonata	violin sonata # 60
73			Volodja Balžalorsky	LIVE IN VIENNA	classical sonata	sonata # 66 violin sonata # 76
82			Volodja Balžalorsky	LIVE IN BELGRADE	classical composer duo piano sonata violin sonata	sonata # 80 violin sonata # 88
84			Volodja Balžalorsky	Live in Maribor	classical sonata	duet # 35 concert # 40 sonata # 90 violin sonata # 91
90			Volodja Balžalorsky	Live at The Festival Rogaska Summer	classical duo piano violin sonata	duo # 28 violin sonata # 96
91			Volodja Balzalorsky	Portrait of Volodja Balzalorsky	classical duo piano violin sonata	duo # 61 violin sonata # 97
4			Pawet Szymanski	Polish Violin Duos	classical violin
7			Piotr Drozdzewski	Polish Violin Duos	classical violin
11			Leopold Wallner	Leopold Wallner: 1847-1913	classical classical violin harp
14			Eije Oue	Paganini / Spohr: Violin Concertos	classical violin
18			Various Artists [Artist]	50 Essential Violin	classical classical violin
21			Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Anja Lechner	Quasi parlando	classical violin contemporary classical
52			Ernest Lush	Ruggiero Ricci Virtuoso Showpieces	classical classical violin
57			Michael Rabin	Violin Classics	classical violin
58			Traditional	The Image of Melancholy	classical classical violin traditional
61			The Stradivarius Project	Highlights for Violin	baroque classical violin
62			Eije Oue	Paganini / Spohr: Violin Concertos incld. Listening Guide	classical violin
68			Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra	Paganini / Spohr: Violin Concertos incld. Listening Guide	classical violin
69			Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra	Paganini / Spohr: Violin Concertos	classical classical violin
71			Josef Suk	Dvořák & Suk: Violin Works	classical violin
2			Luca Fanfoni, Monica Fini	Nathan Milstein, Edvard Grieg, Maurice Ravel and Astor Piazzolla
19			Patricia Kopatchinskaia, Henri Sigfridsson (P) and Sol Gabetta (Cello), Berne Symphony Orchestra, Andrey Boreyko	Beethoven : Triple concerto C-major op.56 : Kopachinskaya, Sigfridsson, Gabette
36			Renato Donà, Aldo Ciccolini	César Franck, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel: Sonatas for Violin and Piano
41			Isabelle Durin, Michaël Ertzscheid	Romantisme hébraïque
49			Amy Schwartz Moretti, Elizabeth Pridgen, Robert McDuffie	Kaleidoscope
50			David Oistrakh	Oistrakh plays Mozart, Beethoven and Shostakovich

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