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Anintroductionto10ofthegreatestviolinconcertoswithhighlyrecommendedrecordingsAlong with the piano, the violin is the instrument best served withconcertos, and what a variety there is! Heres a violin concerto Top 10that embraces all the great works at the centre of every violinistsrepertoire ranging from the poise of the Mozart via the red-bloodedRomantic works like the Tchaikovsky to the modern language of theProkofiev and Bartk

No 1MozartViolinConcertoNo3The English Concert / AndrewManze (vn)

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No 3MendelssohnViolinConcertoDaniel Hope (vn) ChamberOrchestra of Europe / ThomasHengelbrock

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No 4BrahmsViolinConcertoJulia Fischer (vn) NetherlandsPO / Yakov Kreizberg

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No 5TchaikovskyViolinConcertoJames Ehnes (vn) Sydney SO /Vladimir Ashkenazy

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No 7BergViolinConcertoIsabelle Faust (vn) OrchestraMozart / Claudio Abbado

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No 8BartkViolinConcertoNo2Patricia Kopatchinskaja (vn)Frankfurt RSO / Peter Etvs

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No 9ProkofievViolinConcertoNo2Patricia Kopatchinskaja (vn)LPO / Vladimir Jurowski

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No 10ShostakovichViolinConcertoNo1Lisa Batiashvili (vn) BavarianRSO / Esa-Pekka Salonen

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