Concerto Repertoire
Adams: Concerto for Violin
Bach: Concerto 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
Bach: Concerto A minor, BWV 1041
Barber: Concerto for Violin, Op. 14
Bartók: Violin Concerto no. 2, Sz 112 (from Autumn 2022)
Beethoven: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61
Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra no 1 in G major, Op. 40
Beethoven: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major, Op. 56
Berg: Concerto for Violin “To the memory of an angel” (from Spring 2022)
Brahms: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 77
Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op. 102 "Double"
Bruch: Concerto for Violin no 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 46
Dvořák: Concerto for Violin in A minor, Op. 53
Dvořák: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F minor, Op. 11
Dvořák: Mazurek for Violin and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 49
Glass: Concerto for Violin no. 1
Fibich: Concert Polonaise
Janáček: Concerto for Violin “The Wandering of a Little Soul”
Korngold: Concerto for Violin (from Spring 2023)
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 21
Martinů: Concerto for Violin no. 1, H. 226
Martinů: Concerto for Violin no 2, H. 293
Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin in E minor, Op. 64
Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and Strings in D minor
Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and Piano D minor
Mozart: Concerto for Violin no 3 in G major, K 216
Mozart: Concerto for Violin no 5 in A major, K 219 "Turkish"
Mozart: Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat major, K 364 (320d)
Nielsen: Concerto for Violin, Op. 33
Paganini: Concerto no 1 in D major, Op. 6
Pärt: Fratres
Piazzolla/Desyatnikov: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Prokofiev: Concerto for Violin no 1 in D major, Op. 19
Prokofiev: Concerto for Violin no 2 in G minor, Op. 63
Ravel: Tzigane
Respighi: Concerto gregoriano
Schubert: Rondo A major, D 438
Shostakovich: Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor, Op. 77
Sibelius: Concerto for Violin in D minor, Op. 47
Stamitz: Symphonie Concertante for Violin and Viola in D major
Stravinsky: Concerto for Violin in D major
Suk: Fantasy, Op. 24
Tubin: Concerto no 1 in D major for Violin and Orchestra (1942) (from mid-2023)
Vieuxtemps: Concerto for Violin no 5 in A minor, Op. 37 "Grétry"
Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 Violins in A minor, Op. 3 no 8/RV 522
Vivaldi: Concerto for 4 Violins and Cello in B minor, Op. 3, no 10/RV 580
Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 Violins and Cello in D minor, Op. 3 no 11/RV 565
Vivaldi: Concertos for Violin, Op. 8 no 1-4 "Le quattro stagioni"
Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 35
Tchaikovsky: Mélodie for Violin and Orchestra in E flat major
Tchaikovsky: Valse-scherzo in C major, Op. 34
Vaughan-Williams: The Lark Ascending
Waxman: Carmen Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra
Wieniawski: Concerto No 2 in D minor, Op. 22
Wieniawski: Polonaise brillante no 1 in D major, Op. 4
Conductors
Anja Bihlmaier
Semyon Bychkov
James Conlon
Maxim Emelyanychev
James Gaffigan
Manfred Honeck
Jakub Hrůša
Eliahu Inbal
Pietari Inkinen
Lio Kuokman
Cristian Măcelaru
Gergely Madaras
Jun Märkl
Cornelius Meister
Tomáš Netopil
Petr Popelka
Kristiina Poska
Michael Sanderling
Aziz Shokhakimov
Vassily Sinaisky
Thomas Søndergård
Michel Tabachnik
Krzysztof Urbański
Joshua Weilerstein
Kazuki Yamad
The Guardian, 2015'With pure tone and a gutsy lower register, the cooly contained Špaček combined fluent technique with expressive finesse...'
Bachtrack, 2020'The sound of Špačekʼs Guarneri del Gesù filled the hall with a transcendent luster, achingly beautiful and touching to the point of tears'
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2021'...the soloist of the evening steals the show. Violinist Josef Špaček spices up Antonín Dvořák's Violin Concerto op. 53 with that pinch of musical exuberance that is so difficult to achieve...'