Violin Duets and Serenades

♪♫♪ ♪♫♫♪ Once upon a time Paganini participated in a duel with a violinist named Lafont playing the music of Viotti. Years later, Brahms was highly influenced by Viotti's 22nd concerto when we went to write his own. ♪♫♪ ♪♫♫♪ 1 - 2 Duet op9 no1 D maj 3 - 7 Serenade op23 no4 E flat maj 8 - 10 Duet op9 no 2 D min 11 - 17 Serenade op23 no6 E maj ♪♫♪ ♪♫♫♪ It is my hope that a whole generation of new violinists will follow her example by recording, performing, and preserving neglected music of the romantic masters. I dream of a series of box set recordings, live performances, and DVDs of the music of Beroit, Rode, Sauret, etc - recorded by Ehnes, Kaler, Kavakos, Mintz, Repin, etc and also recitals filled with this kind of music. If that ever happened I would truly be in fiddle nirvana! In addition to that, I think of what a recital was really like back then, for example imagine Paganini playing a Viotti concerto but using his own cadenza or better yet, improvising a solo using a cadenza as a guideline. Then after that go on to play his own music. Perhaps Kreisler was the last violinist to do that? But what if a whole new generation of players started doing that again? It doesn't hurt to encourage people and make suggestions does it? Am I asking too many questions? I wanted to point out the very recent recordings (many of them are world premieres) of the neglected music of beroit, suaret, rode, kreutzer, bazzini, viotti, vieuxtemps, joachim, hubay, lalo, saint saens, sarasate, wieniawski, and ferdinand david on the labels naxos, chandos, hyperion, and dynamic featuring soloists such as gringolts, charlier, graffin, aand hagai shaham. To gain a better understanding of the chronology violinist composers and soloists, I have made a list including the year each was born: Corelli 1653 Vivaldi 1678 Bach 1685 Tartini 1692 Locatelli 1695 Leopold Mozart 1719 Hellendaal 1721 Nardini 1722 Gavinies 1728 Haydn 1732 Boccherini 1743 Cambini 1746 Clementi 1752 Viotti 1755 Fiorillo 1755 Shaw 1755 Wolfgang Mozart 1756 Lindley 1756 Pleyel 1757 Dussek 1760 Brooks 1760 Kerutzer 1766 Wesley 1766 Beethoven 1770 Balliot 1771 Paer 1771 Rode 1774 Hummel 1778 La Font 1781 Paganini 1782 Spohr 1784 Ries 1784 Weber 1786 Lipinski 1790 Czerny 1791 Rossini 1792 Schubert 1797 Rolla 1798 Beroit 1802 Berlioz 1803 Saint-Lubin 1805 Ole Bull 1810 Mendelssohn 1809 Ferdinand David 1810 Chopin 1810 Robert Schumann 1810 Liszt 1811 Massart 1811 Ernst 1812 Thalberg 1812 Alkan 1813 Wagner 1813 Sivori 1815 Alard 1815 Dancla 1817 Bazzini 1818 Clara Schumann 1819 Vieuxtemps 1820 Franck 1822 Raff 1822 Lalo 1823 Smetana 1824 Bruckner 1824 Rubinstein 1829 Goldmark 1830 Joachim 1831 Brahms 1833 Accolay 1833 Borodin 1833 Zarzycki 1834 Wieniawksi 1835 Saint Saens 1835 Cui 1835 Balakirev 1837 Bruch 1838 Tchaikovsky 1840 Rieding 1840 Svendsen 1840 Dvorak 1841 Massenet 1842 Grieg 1843 Sarasate 1844 Rimsky-Korsakov 1844 Wilhelmj 1845 Auer 1845 Faure 1845 Marsick 1847 Seitz 1848 Godard 1849 D'I