“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
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Reimagined
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