Ranking the BEST Cadenzas from Violin Concertos 🎻 [Difficulty Tier List]

Now that you know which cadenzas are the most difficult and which ones you’ll need to spend the most hours on, go practice and listen to others practice them, on Tonic: https://tonicmusic.app/practice-together 🎵 Open to all instruments and levels.

0:00 - Intro
00:35 - Power scaling
00:53 - Beethoven: Auer / Heifetz vs Kreisler
03:18 - Mozart No. 3: Sam Franko vs Auer vs Ray Chen
07:12 - Mendelssohn 1st movement
07:55 - Mozart No. 4: Joachim vs Chen vs Sauret
09:15 - Bruch 1st movement
09:40 - Mozart No. 5: Joachim
10:20 - Brahms VC: Joachim vs Kreisler
12:09 - Dvorak 1st movement
12:40 - Hadyn in C: David / Alard
13:19 - Paganini No. 1: Sauret vs Wilhelmj
14:35 - Shostakovich No. 1 3rd mvt
14:48 - Sibelius 1st movement
15:08 - Tchaikovsky 1st movement
15:28 - Vieuxtemps Concerto 4 & 5
15:45 - Viotti Concerto No. 22: David & Alard vs Joachim
16:40 - Results & outro