John Cage's Freeman Etudes for this instrument were originally considered unplayable, and in the Chaconne movement of Bach's Partita in D minor this instrument plays a large amount of double stops.
John Cage's Freeman Etudes for this instrument were originally considered unplayable, and in the Chaconne movement of Bach's Partita in D minor this instrument plays a large amount of double stops. A brass fanfare begins the third movement of Mendelssohn's E minor Concerto for this instrument, and it represents the title character in Scheherazade. Rachmaninoff wrote a rhapsody on a theme inspired by Niccolo Paganini's 24 Caprices for this instrument. Played by Joshua Bell and Itzhak Perlman, for 10 points name this string instrument pitched higher than the viola.
John Cage's Freeman Etudes for this instrument were originally considered unplayable, and in the Chaconne movement of Bach's Partita in D minor this instrument plays a large amount of double stops.
violin [prompt on fiddle] 