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Diapason wrote:Monica Huggett keeps popping up in my collection.

Yes, indeed, Simon and always gives a good live performance.

Jared wrote:here's 10 of my favourite:

Arthur Grumiaux
Itzhak Perlman
Isabelle Faust
Alina Ibragimova
Janine Jansen
Daniel Hope
Vadim Repin
Thomas Zehetmair
Ilya Gringolts
Simon Standage

with a special additional mention for:
Tasmin Little (British repertoire, esp)

Arthur Grumiaux will top my list too.

And for Baroque Violinists:

1. Sigiswald Kuijken (for seniority, he was there at the very beginning).
2. Fabio Biondi.
3. Giuliano Carmignola.
4. Enrico Onofri.
5. Riccardo Minasi.
6. Amandine Beyer.
7. Gunnar Letzbor.
8. Manfredo Kraemer.
9. Thomas Zehetmair (I give him #9 because he´s a hybrid, not 100% of the time Baroque specialist).
10. Viktoria Mullova. (Same thing, Hybrid, and a cute one too.)

Given the massive respect here for Grumiaux I've just popped this into my shopping basket! I'd previously had the Naxos copy....(Nishizaki)

^^ Grumiaux was one of the finest violinists of his generation in a wide range of repertoire... I've not heard that recording, but I'm sure it won't let you down.

Incidentally, I have to support Sean's earlier post on the 3CD Set of LvB Violin Sonatas with Clara Haskil; they are a must for any collection.

Grumiaux made 3 recordings of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, all superb needless to say, but the second one, with the New Philharmonia and Alceo Galliera conducting, is quite simply, the finest recording ever made of that concerto.

Jose Echenique wrote:Grumiaux made 3 recordings of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, all superb needless to say, but the second one, with the New Philharmonia and Alceo Galliera conducting, is quite simply, the finest recording ever made of that concerto.

Much better than the Davis/Concertgebouw vesion?

jaybee wrote:

Jose Echenique wrote:Grumiaux made 3 recordings of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, all superb needless to say, but the second one, with the New Philharmonia and Alceo Galliera conducting, is quite simply, the finest recording ever made of that concerto.

Much better than the Davis/Concertgebouw vesion?

I think so, in this 1967 recording Grumiaux was especially inspired, even by his own high standards.