The only concerto by Jean Sibelius is for this instrument; that work was dedicated to Willy Burmester and has been performed by Jascha [YAH-shah
The only concerto by Jean Sibelius is for this instrument; that work was dedicated to Willy Burmester and has been performed by Jascha [YAH-shah] Heifetz. It is the lead instrument in Berg's Concerto "To the memory of an angel"  and Mozart's "Turkish Concerto". Béla Bartók's sonata for a solo of this instrument was written for Yehudi Menuhin, and Édouard Lalo's Symphonie espagnole—which can be considered a concerto for this instrument—was dedicated to Pablo de Sarasate. This instrument plays a series of twenty-four pieces written from 1802 to 1817, a set of caprices by a virtuoso of this instrument, Niccolò Paganini. Name this instrument performed on the Schindler's List soundtrack by Itzhak Perlman, who uses a Stradivarius.
The only concerto by Jean Sibelius is for this instrument; that work was dedicated to Willy Burmester and has been performed by Jascha [YAH-shah
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