The violin concerto owes a great deal of its development to the technical achievement of performers. Many composers who have written for the instrument were superlative players themselves Wieniawski and Paganini among them. The capabilities of the instrument can be traced through the compositions contained herein; from Vivaldi to the exhilarating fireworks of Prokofiev, via the lilting swagger of Lalo and Saint-Saëns and nationalistic panache of Sibelius and Glazunov.
