Salvatore Accardo
Salvatore Accardo is an outstanding Italian violin virtuoso, best known as a master of the works of Niccolò Paganini, but equally accomplished across a wide variety of repertory for the instrument. His playing is characterized by a taut, visceral tone and a disciplined musical approach that avoids self-indulgence. Having also established himself as a successful conductor, chamber musician, and teacher, Accardo may be considered one of the most accomplished and influential musicians of his generation.
Accardo was born in the northern Italian town of Turin, but as a teenager he went to Naples to study violin at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella; it was there, at the age of 13, that he gave his first performance of the devilish Caprices of Paganini, beginning a lifelong association with that music. He later studied in Siena, at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. After winning the 1956 Geneva Competition and the 1958 Paganini Competition in Genoa, Accardo began a performing career that has kept him busy ever since, both as a soloist with major orchestras and as a recitalist. His repertory includes all of the violin music of Paganini, the solo partitas of J.S. Bach, virtually every mainstream violin concerto from the Classical, Romantic, and Modern eras, and a number of contemporary works. Works composed specifically for Accardo include Walter Piston's Fantasia for violin and orchestra, Iannis Xenakis' Dikhthas, and Franco Donatoni's Argot. The most notable entries in Accardo's extensive discography include his complete cycle of Paganini concertos (the first of its kind), Max Bruch's complete music for violin and orchestra, and the complete sonatas and partitas of Bach.
In 1968, he founded the Italian Chamber Orchestra and became its first conductor. He later conducted the ensemble I Musici, and in 1994 he was appointed conductor of the Orchestra del Teatro San Carlo in Naples. He is a founding member of the Accardo String Quartet and of the Walter Stauffer Academy, where he routinely gives master classes, and also of the Cremona Academy for string players. In 1987, he published a book, L'arte del violino.
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Johann Sebastian Bach : Sonate No. 1-3 - Partite No. 1-3 per violino solo
Classical - Released by Fonè Records on 24 Sep 2007
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Classical Masterpieces Vol. 3
Helmut Walcha, Daniel Barenboim, Tamás Vásáry, Salvatore Accardo
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 Jan 2006
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W.A.Mozart String Quintets Kv 515, Kv 614
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Tartini : Violin Concertos
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Violin Concertos - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 1 Jan 1974
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Classical - Released by Fonè Records on 3 Oct 2022
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Bruch: The 3 Symphonies/Works for Violin & Orchestra
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Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1998
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Haydn: Violin Concertos/Cello Concertos
Salvatore Accardo, Christine Walevska, English Chamber Orchestra, Edo de Waart
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1993
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Bach: Violin Concertos / Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Salvatore Accardo, Margaret Batjer, Douglas Boyd, Christopher Middleton, The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, I Solisti Di Napoli
Classical - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 16 Sep 2016
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Brahms : Complete Orchestral Works
Kurt Masur, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Misha Dichter, Salvatore Accardo, Heinrich Schiff
Classical - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 1 Jan 1983
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W.A.Mozart - String Quintets Kv 406, Kv 516
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W.A.Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante Kv 364 - Concertone Kv 190
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Sibelius : Violin Concerto - Six Humoresques
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Classical - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 16 Sep 2016
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concertos, K. 207, K. 211, K. 218 & Rondeau, K. 373
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Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV 379, 380, 547
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Paganini, N.: Historical Documents
Classical - Released by Dynamic on 1 Jan 1990
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Paganini: Violin Concerto No.1, Sonata Napoleone, I Palpiti...
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Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 Jan 1994
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Brahms: Violin Concerto; Double Concerto
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Bruch: Violinkonzert
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 & Romances for Violin and Orchestra
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Classical - Released by Sony Classical on 1 Jan 1994
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Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV378, 302, 304, 403
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Paganini: Violin Concerto No.6 - Le streghe - Non più mesta...
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