Music lovers have very discriminating tastes. The ones who truly love and understand what great music is, do not settle for anything less. They only care to hear and enjoy what they believe to be the most tasteful and beautifully created musical pieces, what ever the instrument that may have been used for it. And more often than not, the most critical and discriminating of music lovers are musicians or artists themselves, which perfectly explains why they are like that. Since they fully understand how it is to create an exceptional piece of work like great music, they tend to be very difficult to please. It is something that I am well aware of, since I am an artist and musician myself.
Although I do not claim to be even competent in music, I can say that I have great taste when it comes to it. After all, being a visual artist gives me a more acute artistic sensibility than most. I do play some musical instruments as well, but I am not a virtuoso by any means. So I am content to listening and enjoying what those who ate truly gifted musically have to offer. My recent taste in music has leaned more towards classical music that is produced by the violin. I have been listening and having a great time listening to some of the best violin pieces ever created.
Great Violin Music
Some of the best violin pieces for me are actually sad ones. The melancholy always gets to me and I am transported into another realm, a seemingly different time and place. And the raw emotion that it evokes from within me is something that I have never felt in any other music. It is just so wonderful, even though it can really break your heart at times as well. I’ve often been asked what I consider to be the best violin pieces, at least the ones that I am quite familiar with. Although I always reply that it is nearly impossible for me to give a list or to name one piece that I consider to be the greatest ever composed, I do have my favorite.
It is the “Violin Concerto in D Major” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky that he created in 1878. It is indeed very sad, which can be attributed to the sad and depressed state of the composer’s life at the time. He wrote it as he was still suffering from the effects of his failed marriage, so you can just imagine where he get the deep emotions needed to create such a song.