Violin concertos I want to play

Playing the violin has such an impact on my daily life. Since a young child, I have been playing the violin and before that, I played the cello for one year. And I also sang in a children's choir. Since the age of 8, I have played in so many orchestras. Music is everything in my life, you can say.

In December I played three concerts on one day with my orchestra! Every Wednesday I rehearse with them. A great group of musicians who enjoy playing their instrument. Sometimes I like practising music that isn't written for orchestra, but for violin solo, violin with orchestra, violin and piano or violin as a chamber musical instrument.

I aspired to be a professional violinist, but because I haven’t done my best (now I know why) I destroyed my dream. I haven’t stopped playing the violin since I started playing an instrument and it helps me when I’m anxious, depressed, sad or unhappy: I light up a little bit more.

As a little girl, I always wanted to play as many violin concertos as possible and I understood I had to work very hard to accomplish that dream.

When you want to become a professional violinist (no matter how) you have to build a repertoire you can play when you’ll be asked to play whatever you have been asked for. But I didn’t build a repertoire and you know, I didn’t practise that well as I should have. I regret that now because I know now that I could have been a great (orchestra) violinist. Because of personal issues in my youth, I didn’t want to practise. I thought I wasn’t worth it doing anything I wanted to do.

I still have a life in front of me and I still love playing the violin. But not as a professional violinist. Now, I can live with that and I enjoy playing the violin much more than I did in my childhood, although I loved it back then as much as I love it right now.

Wishlist

Since my childhood, I have a wishlist with music I want to learn to play! My sister played me a CD with the Tchaikovski violin concerto played by Maxim Vengerov. Since then I'm a fan of his playing.

So, here is my wishlist of the violin concertos I want to play in the future (not in the order I write):

1. Sibelius violin concerto: this violin concerto is so pure and dramatic. Drama all it says with so many dynamics in this piece. Maybe I love this violin concerto because I am in an emotional phase in my life right now.
2. Bruch Scottish Fantasy: it has drama too but in a brighter way. I love the relaxation in this piece. It isn’t really a violin concerto but in a fantasy form. In a form of the concerto.
3. Bruch violin concerto: it is an energetic violin concerto. The double stops in the third movement are amazing. I don’t know if I can play those double stops (with the right practising method). Just the violin part in combination with the orchestration will amaze you! At least it did for me.
4. Mendelsohn violin concerto: this is a concerto you should have played when you're an aspired concerto solo violinist! At the first side, it is difficult with all the arpeggios in the middle of the first movement and on the other side, it’s difficult to play romanticly at some passages.
5. Tchaikovski violin concerto: Tchaikovski wrote his one and the only violin concerto. It was a violin concerto that was not really playable for any concert solo violinist. But the violinist who it was written for was very sceptical about it. Now it is one of the most no 1 violin concertos any concert solo violinist has on the repertoire. Still difficult. I have a challenge with my father: if I can play this concerto he pays the bill for dinner at a restaurant.
6. Bartok Violin Concerto no 1: I just rediscovered this concerto. I haven’t heard this concerto in ten years! I didn’t like this violin concerto very much in the beginning. It is a modern piece written without — in my eyes — a really a melody.

I can continue with this list, but then you have no time to do other things you want to do!