Zen Violin

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1.

Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera": 2nd movement, Largo by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: Christopher Warren-Green (Violin)
Conductor: Christopher Warren-Green
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1725; Venice, Italy
Length: 2 Minutes 40 Secs.

2.

Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor, BWV 1041: 2nd movement, Andante by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Jonathan Rees (Violin)
Conductor: Jonathan Rees
Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble
Period: Baroque
Written: 1717-1723; Cöthen, Germany
Length: 7 Minutes 43 Secs.

3.

Partita for Violin solo no 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: 5th movement, Sarabande by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Christian Tetzlaff (Violin)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1720; Cöthen, Germany

4.

Concerto for Violin no 2 in E major, BWV 1042: 2nd movement, Adagio by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Jonathan Rees (Violin)
Conductor: Jonathan Rees
Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble
Period: Baroque
Written: 1717-1723; Cöthen, Germany
Length: 7 Minutes 1 Secs.

5.

Sonata for Violin solo no 3 in C major, BWV 1005: 3rd movement, Largo by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Christian Tetzlaff (Violin)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1720; Cöthen, Germany
Length: 3 Minutes 27 Secs.

6.

Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043: 2nd movement, Largo ma non tanto by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Jonathan Rees (Violin)
Conductor: Jonathan Rees
Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble
Period: Baroque
Written: 1717-1723; Cöthen, Germany
Length: 6 Minutes 50 Secs.

7.

Partita for Violin solo no 3 in E major, BWV 1006: 2nd movement, Loure by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Christian Tetzlaff (Violin)
Period: Baroque
Written: after 1720; Germany
Length: 4 Minutes 36 Secs.

8.

Violin Concerto, Op. 7/4: Adagio by Jean-Marie Leclair
Performer: Jean-Jacques Kantorow (Violin)
Conductor: Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Period: Baroque
Length: 5 Minutes 11 Secs.

9.

Concerto for Violin no 3 in G major, K 216: 2nd movement, Adagio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Christian Tetzlaff (Violin)
Conductor: Christian Tetzlaff
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Salzburg, Austria
Length: 7 Minutes 32 Secs.

10.

Orfeo ed Euridice: Dance of the Blessed Spirits by Christoph W. Gluck
Performer: Jerome Ducros (Piano), Renaud Capuçon (Violin)
Period: Classical
Written: 1762/1774; Vienna, Austria
Length: 3 Minutes 44 Secs.

11.

Ellens Gesang III, D 839/Op. 52 no 6 "Ave Maria" by Franz Schubert
Performer: Jerome Ducros (Piano), Renaud Capuçon (Violin)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1825; Vienna, Austria
Length: 4 Minutes 11 Secs.

12.

Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61: 2nd movement, Larghetto by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Dmitri Sitkovetsky (Violin)
Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
Period: Classical
Written: 1806; Vienna, Austria
Length: 9 Minutes 54 Secs.

13.

Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat major, K 364 (320d): 2nd movement, Andante by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Renaud Capuçon (Violin), Antoine Tomestit (Viola)
Conductor: Louis Longree
Period: Classical
Written: 1779; Salzburg, Austria
Length: 10 Minutes 45 Secs.

14.

Romance for Violin and Orchestra no 1 in G major, Op. 40 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
Period: Classical
Written: 1802; Vienna, Austria
Length: 7 Minutes 40 Secs.

15.

Romance for Violin and Orchestra no 2 in F major, Op. 50 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
Period: Classical
Written: ?1798; Vienna, Austria
Length: 9 Minutes 3 Secs.

16.

Concerto for Violin in E minor, Op. 64: Excerpt(s) by Felix Mendelssohn
Performer: Renaud Capuçon (Violin)
Conductor: Daniel Harding
Period: Romantic
Written: 1844; Germany
Length: 7 Minutes 42 Secs.

17.

Slavonic Dances (8) for Piano 4 hands, Op. 72/B 145: no 2 in E minor, Dumka by Antonín Dvorák
Performer: Pavel Gililov (Piano), Dmitri Sitkovetsky (Violin)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1886; Bohemia
Length: 4 Minutes 21 Secs.

18.

Concerto for Violin in D minor: 2nd movement, Langsam by Robert Schumann
Performer: Renaud Capuçon (Violin)
Conductor: Daniel Harding
Period: Romantic
Written: 1853; Germany
Length: 6 Minutes 3 Secs.

19.

Sonata for Violin and Piano no 3 in D minor, Op. 108: 2nd movement, Adagio by Johannes Brahms
Performer: Jaime Laredo (Violin), Jean-Bernard Pommier (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1886-1888; Austria
Length: 4 Minutes 32 Secs.

20.

Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 77: 2nd movement, Adagio by Johannes Brahms
Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard
Period: Romantic
Written: 1878; Austria
Length: 9 Minutes 0 Secs.

21.

Violin Concerto: Romanze: Andante by Joseph Joachim
Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard
Length: 7 Minutes 33 Secs.

22.

Thaïs: Meditation by Jules Massenet
Performer: Renaud Capuçon (Violin)
Conductor: Daniel Harding
Period: Romantic
Written: 1894; France
Length: 5 Minutes 21 Secs.

23.

Suite bergamasque: 3rd movement, Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy
Performer: Jerome Ducros (Piano), Renaud Capuçon (Violin)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1890/1905; France
Length: 4 Minutes 17 Secs.

24.

Sonata for Violin and Cello: 3rd movement, Lent by Maurice Ravel
Performer: Christopher van Kampen (Cello), Marcia Crayford (Violin)
Length: 5 Minutes 55 Secs.

25.

Liebesleid by Fritz Kreisler
Performer: Pavel Gililov (Piano), Dmitri Sitkovetsky (Violin)
Period: Romantic
Written: Austria
Length: 3 Minutes 39 Secs.

26.

Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat major, Op. 18: 2nd movement, Andante cantabile by Richard Strauss
Performer: Pavel Gililov (Piano), Dmitri Sitkovetsky (Violin)
Length: 8 Minutes 23 Secs.

27.

Stimmungsbilder for Piano, Op. 9: no 2, An einsamer Quelle by Richard Strauss
Performer: Jerome Ducros (Piano), Renaud Capuçon (Violin)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1882-1884; Germany
Length: 3 Minutes 35 Secs.

28.

Songs (14), Op. 34: no 14, Vocalise by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Maxim Vengerov (Violin), Ian Brown (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1912-1915; Russia
Length: 6 Minutes 49 Secs.

29.

Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation 18 by Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer: Ian Brown (Piano), Maxim Vengerov (Violin)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1934; USA
Length: 3 Minutes 14 Secs.

30.

Schindler's List: Main Theme by John Williams
Performer: Ian Brown (Piano), Maxim Vengerov (Violin)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1993; United States
Length: 3 Minutes 59 Secs.

31.

Pieces (2) for Violin/Cello and Orchestra, Op. 77 by Jean Sibelius
Performer: Christian Tetzlaff (Violin)
Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard
Period: Romantic
Written: 1914; Finland
Length: 8 Minutes 1 Secs.

32.

Much Ado about Nothing, Op. 11: no 4, Intermezzo "Garden Scene" by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Performer: Jerome Ducros (Piano), Renaud Capuçon (Violin)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1918-1919; Vienna, Austria
Length: 5 Minutes 16 Secs.

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