Dmitry Smirnov bowing with violin, black and white. Photo: Matthias Müller

Repertoire

Concertos

With orchestra

Baroque

Johann Sebastian Bach1685–1750
  • Violin Concerto in A minor
  • Brandenburg Concertos No. 3 and No. 5
  • Concerto for Two Violins in D minor
  • Concerto for Three Violins in D major
Antonio Vivaldi1678–1741
  • Concertos RV 234, RV 565, RV 575, RV 578 and others

Classical

Joseph Haydn1732–1809
  • Violin Concertos
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756–1791
  • Violin Concertos Nos. 1–5, K. 207–219
  • Adagio in E major, K. 261
  • Rondos in C major, K. 373, and B-flat major, K. 269
Ludwig van Beethoven1770–1827
  • Violin Concerto, Op. 61
  • Triple Concerto, Op. 56
  • Romance No. 1 in G major, Op. 40

Romantic

Niccolò Paganini1782–1840
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major
Franz Schubert1797–1828
  • Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings, D 438
Felix Mendelssohn1809–1847
  • Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
  • Violin Concerto in D minor, MWV O 3
  • Concerto for Violin and Piano in D minor, MWV O 4
Robert Schumann1810–1856
  • Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23
  • Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 131
Édouard Lalo1823–1892
  • Concerto russe
  • Violin Concerto No. 1
Johannes Brahms1833–1897
  • Violin Concerto, Op. 77
  • Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102
Camille Saint-Saëns1835–1921
  • Introduction and Rondo capriccioso
Henryk Wieniawski1835–1880
  • Violin Concertos No. 1 and No. 2
Max Bruch1838–1920
  • Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 26
  • Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46
Friedrich Gernsheim1839–1916
  • Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 86
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840–1893
  • Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Antonín Dvořák1841–1904
  • Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53
Jean Sibelius1865–1957
  • Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

20th & 21st century

Arnold Schoenberg1874–1951
  • Violin Concerto, Op. 36
Béla Bartók1881–1945
  • Violin Concertos No. 1 and No. 2
  • Rhapsodies No. 1 and No. 2
Igor Stravinsky1882–1971
  • Violin Concerto in D
Karol Szymanowski1882–1937
  • Violin Concerto No. 1
Alban Berg1885–1935
  • Violin Concerto
Rudi Stephan1887–1915
  • Musik für Geige und Orchester
Frank Martin1890–1974
  • Violin Concerto (1951)
Bohuslav Martinů1890–1959
  • Violin Concerto No. 2, H. 293
Sergei Prokofiev1891–1953
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63
Roberto Gerhard1896–1970
  • Violin Concerto
Gavriil Popov1904–1972
  • Violin Concerto (1938), reconstructed and completed by Dmitry Smirnov
Dmitri Shostakovich1906–1975
  • Violin Concertos No. 1, Op. 99, and No. 2, Op. 129
Leonard Bernstein1918–1990
  • Serenade after Plato’s “Symposium”
György Ligeti1923–2006
  • Violin Concerto
Heinz Holliger*1939
  • Violin Concerto
Andrew Lloyd Webber*1948
  • The Phantom of the Opera, for Violin, Cello and Orchestra

Solo programmes

Violin alone
Solo violin

Bach · Sei Solo

Sonatas and Partitas BWV 1003, 1005 and 1006 on period violin and bow

Solo violin

Paganini & Friends

Paganini, Vieuxtemps, Austri, Sivori, Ernst, Liszt (arr. Smirnov), Rode, Spohr, Kreutzer and others

Solo violin

Ysaÿe & Dedicatees

Ysaÿe, Thibaud, Crickboom, Szigeti, Kreisler, Quiroga, Enescu

Solo violin

Bach & 20th Century

Bach, Bartók, Reich (or Schneeberger)

Solo violin

Contemporary Music · “Assaggi”

Veress, Holliger, Schneeberger, Kurtág, Winkelmann, Perle, Roman and others

Chamber & recital

With piano and ensemble
Violin & piano

Debussy · Bach · Stravinsky

Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor · Bach: Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005 · Stravinsky: Divertimento from «Le Baiser de la fée»

with Sergei Redkin, piano

Violin & piano

Ravel · Enescu · Schumann

Ravel: Sonata in G major · Enescu: Sonata No. 3 «dans le caractère populaire roumain» · Schumann: Sonata No. 3 in D minor

Violin & piano

French Composers

Saint-Saëns, Cras, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud, Delbos, Pépin

Violin & piano

From Schubert to Stravinsky

Sonatas by Schubert, Schumann and Bartók; Stravinsky’s Divertimento

Violin & piano

Virtuoso Pieces

Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso · Paganini: Le streghe · Wieniawski: Faust Variations · Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy · Saint-Saëns (arr. Ysaÿe): Caprice en forme de valse · Paganini: Variations on “Di tanti palpiti” (Rossini)

Two violins

Ysaÿe · Weinberg · Rózsa

Ysaÿe: Sonata for two violins, op. posth. · Weinberg: Sonata for two violins, Op. 69 · Rózsa: Sonata for two violins, Op. 15

Sonatas

Ludwig van Beethoven
  • All sonatas and variations
Robert Schumann
  • Three sonatas and three songs (arr. Smirnov)
Johannes Brahms
  • Three sonatas, F-A-E Scherzo
Béla Bartók
  • Two sonatas, Solo Sonata, Dances

Mixed programmes on request.

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