Listening List

This is a short list of suggested listening to supplement the Suzuki recordings. This only includes selections from the European (Western music) tradition, but there are many quality works and recordings in jazz, world music, and other genres that would also be a great complement to your Suzuki studies.  Don't forget to attend local live music!

• Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
• Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite
• Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Suites
• Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
• Beethoven - Symphonies, esp. No. 3 Eroica
• Vivaldi - Four Seasons
• Bach - Sonatas and Partitas for violin
• Bach - Cello Suites
• Debussy - La Mer
• Debussy - String Quartet
• Ravel - String Quartet
• Josquin - Motet Ave Maria
• Fritz Kreisler - Schön Rosmarin and others
• Mozart - Requiem
• Stravinsky - Petrushka
• Mozart - Symphony 41 Jupiter
• Brahms - Violin Concerto
• Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto
• Chopin - Prelude in D-Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15 Raindrop
• Stravinsky - Firebird Suite
• Beethoven - Sonata No. 5 for Violin and Piano Spring
• Beethoven - Sonata No. 9 for Violin and Piano Kreutzer
• Brahms - Symphonies
• Bach - Brandenburg Concertos
• Dvořák - Cello Concerto
• Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 Classical

Violinists

The following is an incomplete sample of violinists to study.  There are many more worth listening to, but this list covers a wide spectrum of personalities and styles of playing.  Recordings are readily available for these, and also biographies, in most cases.

• Itzhak Perlman
• Pinchas Zuckerman
• Gidon Kremer
• Yehudi Menhuin
• Nathan Milstein
• Jascha Heifetz
• David Oistrakh
• Fritz Kreisler
• Michael Rabin
• Isaac Stern
• Hilary Hahn
• Kyung-Wha Chung
• Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg