A work for solo violin and orchestra commissioned by Donald McDonald for the 21st birthday of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the 60th birthday of the composer. It was first performed in November 1993 in Glasgow by JamesClark and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maxwell Davies.The spell is one quoted by George Mackay Brown in his book An Orkney Tapestry: 'Let not plough be put to acre except a fiddle cross first the furrow.'Davies's dancing concerto imagines the fiddler following a route from field to field from dance to dance accompanied by a bunch of companions in the form of an orchestra. As the music goes on so it gets brighter and livelier moving from the dark colouring of clarinets bassoons and strings to full ensemble with prominent brass and (solo) tuned percussion as if the dancers as much as the fields were beginning to glow with new life.Score(miniature). Duration c. 20mins.

My Violin Concerto is scored for a Classical-sized orchestra, with the addition of a harp and celeste, and lasts around 17 minutes. Although the work sets out to explore the lyrical characteristics of the solo instrument, it is only gradually that the violin finds its full, lyric voice, and thence, as the work progresses, a more dominant role. This, in one sense, is the 'journey' of the piece.The work's straightforward formal scheme consists of three movements (roughly fast-slow-fast) framed by a reflective introduction and epilogue. However, these formal divisions exist within a single, unbroken arc. Such an overall symmetrical shape places the slow Arioso (itself divided into three subsections) at the midpoint, sandwiched between the two Allegro movements. The dramaturgy of the piece centres on a twofold search. First there is the ongoing pursuit to 'recapture' the simple melodic material stated by the solo violin - accompanied by the harp's bass register - during the opening bars. Whilst aspects of this melody are invoked frequently throughout (especially in the violin cadenza which closes the Arioso movement), it is only with the final and most important climax of the work that the melody appears again in its complete form, now accompanied by violent, orchestral stabs. The second search is for a tonal resting place, the arrival of which is delayed until the close of the epilogue.The original version of the Violin Concerto, commissioned by the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, was premiered in Amsterdam in February 2012 with Gordan Nikolic as soloist. The present, revised version was created for Barnabás Kelemen and the Hallé. The piece is dedicated, with admiration, to my friend Oliver Knussen. (Ryan Wigglesworth) / Violon Et Orchestre

Les éditions Bärenreiter ont édité sous la référence BA 6720 cette partition musicale pour satisfaire au maximum les amateurs de musique Classique et plus particulièrement les pratiquant de Violon. Cette partition a pour titre Konzert 1 in E für Violine und Orchester (1932/33) et pour compositeur Martinu Bohuslav. / Violon Et Orchestre / Partition

Für Violine Und Streichorchester. Par SHCHEDRIN RODION. Fortement influencé par l'impressionnisme russe ce concerto peut également être effectué avec un ensemble à cordes petit. Un récent enregistrement par le jeune virtuose russe Maxim Vengerow avec le chef d'orchestre Mstislav Rostropovitch est disponible chez EMI./ Répertoire / Violon et Orchestre à Cordes

Deux des compositions les plus durables de Bruch, révélant le romantisme du compositeur allemand, la notation couramment, orchestrations colorées, et la mélodie exubérante. Le Premier Concerto pour violon en sol mineur se présente comme l'un des concertos les plus jouées et enregistrées dans le répertoire pour violon tandis Fantaisie écossaise reflète son intérêt tout au long de la musique folklorique.Réimpression de concert, op.26, CFW Siegel Musikalienhandlung, Leipzig, sd, et Fantasie, Op.46, N. Simrock, Berlin, 1880. / Violon Et Orchestre

Le Concerto pour violon et 12 instruments à cordes est dédié au violoniste et chef d'orchestre hongrois Tibor Varga. Dès sa première exécution en Allemagne, à l'église Saint-Sauveur (Erlöserkirche) de Detmold, le 6 juin 1982, l'oeuvre eut un accueil d'une faveur exceptionnelle. Le caractère de cette composition la différencie d'une façon très nette et toute nouvelle du type habituel du concerto à l'époque. / Violon Et Orchestre