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“Stellar playing … Daniel Rowland has a powerful, glamorous tone, gleaming at the top and throaty and rugged down at the bottom.. he plays with such fiery intensity that the music seems to shake” Gramophone

  There’s a broad and colorful repertoire that I love playing, from the many, crazy concertos by Vivaldi through the late romantic gems by Elgar, Nielsen, Korngold and Szymanowsky to great 20th century classics such as Bartok, Schnittke, Glass, Adams, Lindberg, Ligeti, Ferneyhough, Piazzolla… I also love working with composer and commissioning new works, and nothing is more exiting than the first reading of a newly written work by Marcelo Nisinman, Isidora Zebeljan, Peteris Vasks, Kaja Saariaho,  Roxanna Panufnik, Søren Niels Eichberg, Albert Schnelzer, Robert Davidson, Cecilia Damstrom, Tamir Odeh-Tamimi… I love approaching every work with the freshest possible eyes, and I love creating programmes with great contrasts, full of surprises!  This are some of my favourite concertos:

Concerto repertoire

Vivaldi Violin Concerto ‘La Tempesta di Mare’ Violin Concerto “Il Piacere’ Le Quatro Stagioni Mozart Violin Concerto No.3 in G Major, Violin Concerto No.5 in A Major Sinfonia Concertante in E flat Major Beethoven Tripple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56 Brahms Concerto, Double Concerto Szymanowsky Violin Concerto No.1 Bartok Violin Concerto No.1 Violin Concerto No.2 Shostakowitch Violin Concerto No.1 Prokoffief Violin Concerto No.2 Korngold Violin Concerto in D Major Berg Violin Concerto ‘To the Memory of an Angel’ Chamber Concerto Elgar Violin Concerto in D Major Nielsen Violin Concerto Adams Violin Concerto Glass Violin Concerto No.1 Violin Concerto No.2 ‘The American Seasons’ Vasks Distant Light, for Violin and Strings Vox Amoris Lonely Angel Isidora Zebeljan Violin Concerto ‘Three curious loves’ (dedicated to DR) Elena Firsova

Ferneyhough Terrain Max Richter

Ligeti Violin Concerto Piazzolla/Destyatnikov The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, for Violin and Strings Pärt Fratres, for Solo Violin, Bass Drum and Strings Schnittke Violin Concerto No.1 Sonata No.1, for Violin, Harpsichord and Strings Concerto Grosso No.1 for 2 Violins Bernstein West Side Story Suite Serenade, after Plato’s Symposium Lutoslawsky Chain 2 Partita Lindberg Violin Concerto 1 Corigliano The Red Violin Concerto Fazil Say Violin Concerto ‘1001 Nights in the Harem Kaja Saariaho Graaltheater