Violin concerto

Musical work for solo violin and ensemble
David Oistrakh playing a violin concerto, 1960

A 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
    • Violin Concerto (1993)
  • Malcolm Arnold
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 (1717–1723)
    • Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 (1717–1723)
    • Double Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 (1723)
  • Samuel Barber
    • Violin Concerto, Op. 14 (1939)
  • Béla Bartók
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 (1908)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 (1938)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    • Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (1806)
  • Alban Berg
    • Violin Concerto (1935)
  • Ernest Bloch
    • Violin Concerto (1938)
  • Nimrod Borenstein
    • Concerto for violin and orchestra opus 60 (2013)
  • Johannes Brahms
    • Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 (1878)
  • Benjamin Britten
    • Violin Concerto (1939)
  • Max Bruch
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 (1867)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 44 (1878)
    • Violin Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 58 (1891)
  • Henri Casadesus
  • Frederick Delius
    • Violin Concerto
  • Henri Dutilleux
  • Antonín Dvořák
    • Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (1879–1880)
  • Danny Elfman
    • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "Eleven Eleven" (2017)
  • Edward Elgar
    • Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 (1910)
  • 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
    • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, No. 1 (1987)
    • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, No. 2, "The American Four Seasons" (2009)
  • Alexander Glazunov
    • Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82 (1904)
  • Karl Goldmark
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 28 (1877)
  • Georg Friedrich Händel
    • Violin Concerto in B flat major, HWV 288 (ca. 1707)
  • Joseph Haydn
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIa:1 (ca. 1765)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, Hob. VIIa:2 (1765, lost)
    • Violin Concerto No. 3 in A major, Hob. VIIa:3 "Melker Konzert" (ca. 1770)
    • Violin Concerto No. 4 in G major, Hob. VIIa:4 (1769)
  • Jennifer Higdon
    • Violin Concerto (2008)
  • Paul Hindemith
    • Violin Concerto (1939)
  • Robin Holloway
    • Violin Concerto Op. 70 (1990)
  • Akira Ifukube
    • Rhapsodia Concertante for Violin and Orchestra (1948)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 (1978)
  • Shin'ichiro Ikebe
    • Violin Concerto, (1981)
  • Joseph Joachim
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor
  • Mieczysław Karłowicz
    • Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 8 (1902)
  • Aram Khachaturian
    • Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 46 (1940)
  • Ståle Kleiberg
    • Violin Concerto no. 1 (2005)
    • Violin Concerto no. 2 (2017)
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold
    • Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 (1945)
  • Édouard Lalo
  • Jean-Marie Leclair
    • 12 concertos for violin and orchestra op.7 & op.10
  • Marian Lejava
    • Vertigo - Concerto for Violin and Ensemble Op. 23 (2018)
  • Lowell Liebermann
    • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 74 (2001)
  • Avrohom Leichtling
    • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 95 (1988–1991)
  • György Ligeti
    • Violin Concerto (1992)
  • 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
    • Violin Concerto (2019)
  • Henri Marteau
    • Violin Concerto in C Major, Op. 18 (1916)
  • Bohuslav Martinů
  • Felix Mendelssohn
    • Violin Concerto in D minor (1822)
    • Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844)
  • Edgar Meyer
    • Violin Concerto (2000)
  • 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
    • Violin Concerto, Op. 33 (1911)
  • Michael Nyman
    • Violin Concerto (2003)
  • 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
    • Violin Concerto (1943)
  • Gerhard Präsent
    • Violin Concerto Op. 73 (2015)
  • André Previn
    • Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie" (2001)
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19 (1917)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 (1935)
  • Behzad Ranjbaran
  • Max Reger
    • Violin Concerto in A major Op. 101 (1907–1908)
  • Miklós Rózsa
    • Violin Concerto, Op. 24 (1953)
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in A major, Op. 20 (1859)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in C major, Op. 58 (1858)
    • Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 (1880)
  • Esa-Pekka Salonen
    • Violin Concerto (2009)
  • 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
    • Violin Concerto (1936)
  • Robert Schumann
    • Violin Concerto, WoO 23 (1853)
  • Laura Schwendinger
    • Violin Concerto "Chiaroscuro Azzurro"
  • Vache Sharafyan
    • Concerto-Serenata for violin and strings
    • Con-Cor-Dance Violin Concerto #2
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 (1948, rev. 1955 as Op. 99)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in C♯ minor, Op. 129 (1967)
  • Aleksandr Shymko
    • Violin Concerto (2012)
  • Peter Seabourne
    • Violin Concerto (with string orchestra) (2018)
  • Jean Sibelius
    • Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (1904)
  • Maddalena Laura Sirmen
    • Six Violin Concerti
  • Richard Strauss
    • Violin Concerto (1881–82)
  • Igor Stravinsky
    • Violin Concerto (1931)
  • Karol Szymanowski
    • Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 (1916)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 61 (1932–1933)
  • Toru Takemitsu
    • Far calls. Coming, far! for Violin and Orchestra (1980)
  • Boris Tchaikovsky
    • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1969)
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    • Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 (1878)
  • Daniel Theaker
    • Violin Concerto
  • 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:
    • L'estro Armonico, Op. 3 (1711)—twelve concertos
    • La stravaganza, Op. 4 (ca. 1714)
    • The Four Seasons (ca. 1725)—four concertos, the first four numbers of Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, Op. 8
  • Giovanni Battista Viotti
    • Violin Concerto No. 22 in A Minor
  • William Walton
    • Violin Concerto (1939)
  • Henryk Wieniawski
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in F♯ minor, Op. 14 (1853)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22 (1862)
  • 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

  1. ^ In Berg's concerto, the first two and last two movements are conjoined, with the only break coming between the second and third movements.
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