The violin with its beautiful and charming tone, perfect shape, more than 400 years through the artist's genius imagination and exploration of the creation, with amazing rich performance skills and depth, broad range, strong penetrating power, incomparable artistic expression, like active in the music of the vast starry sky goddess. People put crowns on it, calling it the Queen of the instrument world.
Generations of composers and performers have left a great deal of good work for the violin. Many of them are long-lasting, fascinating handed down, unforgettable, become the majority of music lovers favorite violin classical music, but also the world's musical boutique.
Violin Ten famous music is not including large-scale works, not more than 10 minutes of classical works, its repertoire must be recognized as the world's most representative, different styles, well-known, the most beautiful, skills and artistic charm is very good. The top ten masterpieces include almost all the violin playing skills and artistic processing, which is a serious challenge for every violinist. Because to succeed in the perfect performance of the top ten classics, must have a mature solid foundation and deep artistic accomplishment.
1. Commemorative Song
German violinist Drdla (Drolla) a day, because visit friends, take the train to the outskirts of Vienna, happened to pass the tomb of Schubert. He saw the tomb of the King of the Unknown song, welled up in his mind, eager to record down, written on the tram ticket. To the friend's home immediately on the piano carefully studied, completed the whole song. This piece of music remembrance of nostalgia, especially deep, mostly understood as the beauty of affectionate memories, or a beautiful memory of happiness. The composer did not give a precise explanation, which is left to the appreciative reader to understand it. The whole song is composed of three parts, the melody is clear and concise, buzzing. In particular, the graceful softness of the tone, also caused the audience to cause deep remembering.
2. Ode to the Virgin
This is a violin recital by a German violinist Wilhelm (WILHELMJ), based on the song of Schubert's namesake. In classical works, the composer often put the most beautiful, the most perfect, the most can give people with lofty artistic conception of the mother to visualize a solemn music, performance from the beginning of the simple noble. The melody is shown in front of people as if it were Leonardo da Vinci's Portrait of the Virgin. That melody sentence level clear, deep and unobstructed, strong emotion, metrical rigorous, with piety and sincere deeply touched the heart. The beginning on the G string of the rich and varied singing, touching deep. When playing with an octave double tone, the piano accompaniment uses a large-scale wave-like arpeggiator. In the climax of the music, the emergence of a holy color. The whole song fades away in the unusual stillness.
3. Lark
This is the unique work of Romanian composer Danicu (DINICU), a unique vibrato on the violin treble E string. The melody skillfully uses the violin to slide the vibrato skill, with the extremely bright and jubilant rhythm, concise and rich dynamic piano accompaniment, shows the mountain forest in the lark contend, the sun is bright, the picturesque scene. In the violin e-string Bright clear transparent tone performance, the superb vibrato stunt one go.
4. Meditation
This is the Massenet of the French composer Masi nie Gounod (Thais) for the opera Taian division. Heroine Thais in the depths of the sinking, longing for the clear blue sky. As a violin meditation song, in the expression of deep and distant emotions, in the calm and undulating melody, its elegant intriguing.
5. The Joy of Love
Chrysler (Fritz Kreisler) is the most famous violin master in the 20th century. This violin song is his most representative piece of music. The whole song is a three-paragraph style, full of joy and romantic atmosphere, very rich salon flavor. The middle is very nice and kind. This song in the use of three-degree double tone on the unique, the violin gorgeous, the scenery showed a deep charm.
6. Hungarian Carnival
Hungarian violinist, composer Hubai (Hubay) was one of the world's most famous violin masters in the early 20th century and was formerly Dean of the Budapest Conservatory of Music. This violin song is his best masterpiece. This is a multi-stage work, both deep and gorgeous melody, but also a warm carnival scene. In the use of continuous vibrato, the ingenuity, with amazing brilliant skills and impressive expressive force.
7. Mendelssohn Concerto in E minor
The German composer Mendelssohn (Mendelssohn) is an elegant gentleman of noble descent. This violin concerto is the world's most performing concerto, and for more than a century has been a long time. It has the noble gentle minor color, the second movement is a pair of pleasant sound poem Sound painting. The piano accompaniment is like a rippling wave. The violin is like the Barcarolle without lyrics, the string between the bow slowly pour out the melody of soft, show the violin pure, silver and lofty. After the melody has entered the polyphony, its dual-tone skills are fully displayed, like two violin ensembles. This is the most fascinating piece of the Violin concerto.
8. The song of the Gypsy (aka The Wanderer's song)
Spanish violin Master Sarassat (Sarasate) is one of the world's most outstanding violin masters from the 19 to the early 20th century. Not only did he have amazing achievements in the artistic performance of violin skills, he also ranked the world's top in composing. Written in the style of the Gypsy's tone, this song became one of the world's favorite music lovers. The music starts from the bold and exciting rubato tones, free and unrestrained, but also has a very chic technique to decorate, make it full of passion and romantic feeling. In the music section into the slow board, Melody lingering moving, Beisuan melancholy. The end is extremely exciting and lively Allegro. This sudden change brought people into a lively and joyous scene, and the fluent bow-string was fascinating. Finish the whole song in the climax.
9. Intro and Fantasy Rondo
French composer C. Saint Saens (Saint-Saens) is a versatile and outstanding high-yielding composer. Every piece of his music is novel and Chic, with a sense of style. The rhythm of this rondo melody is very chic and flexible. The starter part is a line with a melancholy meditation, and the tones are floating in the sky like a falling maple leaf, and there is a salon-style flavour. The middle of the Spanish dance flexible, charming, followed by the luxury of the Arpeggiator, followed by a large section of the fast-moving high-speed bow passages, so that the more beautiful music back, moving. In music, colorful, contests, is the most able to embody the violin skills of one of the works.
10. Violin Sonata in G minor (Devil's Vibrato Sonata)
The Italian violin Master Tartini (Tartini) was the most outstanding violinist and composer of the 18th century. This sonata is the classical culmination of the violin's history. The "Vibrato of the Devil" Sonata (1713) is the immortal that has made his fame so far. It is said that Tartini met the devil in his sleep, and the devil taught him strange ways of playing, so he wrote this piece of music. With regard to this piece, French astronomer Lalander, in one of his articles, "a Frenchman travels in Italy," wrote in Tartini's own dictation: "One night in 1713 years, I dreamed of signing a contract with the devil." The devil promised to be my servant, and everything was done according to my will. That is to say, whatever I think, he has to prepare for me beforehand, everything goes well ... Then in my mind flashed a thought, why not my violin to the devil, see if he is a musician, can also pull out a little bit what kind of sound music? But to my surprise, he played very moving. That wonderful sonata is beyond human imagination, including a supreme sentiment and interest, so that I always attached to the happiness of the world, and forget to find heaven. I was intoxicated, amazed, elated, ecstatic, and breathless with excitement. At this time, I woke up, immediately picked up the violin, want to chase the music in the dream, but failed to do so. I continued to contemplate the melody of the dream and the hint of music. This evening, I finally wrote what I thought was the best work of my life, and gave it a song name called "Violin Sonata in G minor" (The Devil's Vibrato). But I still think it's far from the tune I heard in my dreams. If I can hear that wonderful music again, even once, I would rather smash my violin and give up music forever. "The Devil's Vibrato" was born. Later, the work conquered the audience with its extraordinary magic. It is like a composer who talks to the devil in a dream. Its lyrical and solemn deep in the melody by the very difficult double vibrato embodied. That vigorous momentum and the original melody makes the Devil's vibrato to the human left a extinct art.. Centuries passed, and no violinist ever dreamed the same dream, and wrote down the melody of that world. (Reprint a blog)
Ten Masterpieces of the World violin