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Scheherazade
symphonic poem by Rimsky-Korsakov
Danse macabre
tone poem written by Camille Saint-Saëns
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
composition for violin and orchestra written in 1863 by Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphonie espagnole
concerto for violin and orchestra by Édouard Lalo
Zigeunerweisen
Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs, ), Op. 20, is a musical composition for violin and orchestra written in 1878 by the Spanish composer Pablo de Sarasate. It was premiered the same year in Leipzig, Germany. Like his contemporaries, Sarasate misidentified Hungarian folk music with the "gypsy music" of the Romani people, and the themes in the piece are not of Romani origin, but were all actually adapted from Hungarian music pieces: for instance, the third section borrows a melody by Hungarian composer (1836–1908), and the last section uses a theme from Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13, in the rh
Tzigane
Tzigane is a rhapsodic composition by the French composer Maurice Ravel featuring a virtuosic violin part. The original instrumentation was for violin and piano (with optional luthéal attachment). The first performance took place in London on 26 April 1924 with the dedicatee, Jelly d'Arányi, on the violin and Henri Gil-Marchex at the piano. In his biographical sketch of 1928 Ravel termed it a rapsodie de concert, as "a virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody". It consists of "a string of successive variations juxtaposed without development".
The Lark Ascending
musical work by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Scottish Fantasy
composition for violin and orchestra by Max Bruch
Violin Romance No. 2
composition for violin and orchestra by Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Romance No. 1 (Beethoven)
violin concerto
Méditation
symphonic intermezzo from the opera Thaïs by Jules Massenet
Carmen Fantasy
1881 fantasy by Pablo de Sarasate
Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42
composition for violin and piano by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Poème
composition for violin and orchestra