[Oistrakh]

ysaye is great, so is ernst 6 polyphonic studies (including the famous/infamous Variations on the Last Rose of the Summer)

 

[vorlon1]

Get the Devil's Trill sonata by Tartini and just about any Sarasate music, like Zapateado, Zigeunerweisen, many others. Also Hora Staccato by Dinicu. Many of these are on a set of Michael Rabin recordings on EMI which I highly recommend; it also has all the Paganini caprices, some Ysaye pieces and many other excellent violin works.

 

[Oistrakh]

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Originally Posted by vorlon1 Get the Devil's Trill sonata by Tartini and just about any Sarasate music, like Zapateado, Zigeunerweisen, many others. Also Hora Staccato by Dinicu.

those aren't solo violin pieces though

 

[jagorev]

I'll second or third the Perlman recording of the 24 Caprices. Astounding.

 

[vorlon1]

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those aren't solo violin pieces though

Absolutely right, but you can get them with piano accompaniment that is very much background and designed to highlight the violin, so I suggested them in that spirit.

 

[Masolino]

Unaccompanied violin before Bach: Biber, Westhoff, Pisendel.