Classical-music.com, site-ul oficial  al BBC Music Magazine, a alcătuit un clasament al celor mai importanţi 20 de violonişti.

Conform cu siteul menţionat, 100 de violonişti & ansambluri camerale celebre din lumea întreagă au fost solicitaţi să trimită 3 opţiuni.  Argumentul obligatoriu era ca violoniştii nominalizaţi să fi fost ascultaţi fie în înregistrări fie live.

George Enescu ocupă locul 20. Interesant este faptul că nu a fost votat de muzicieni români…

Între nominalizări se mai află încă doi virtuozi români: Florin Niculescu (jazz manouche) şi Anghel Gheorghe “Caliu” din Clejani.

Iată clasamentul:

20. George Enescu (1881-1955) România

19. Frank Peter Zimmerman (n.1965) Germania

18. Reinhard Goebel (n.1952) Germania

17. Christian Ferras (1933-82) Franţa

16. Bronisław Huberman (1882-1947) Polonia

15. Leonid Kogan (1924-82) Rusia

14. Ivry Gitlis (n.1922) Israel

3. Adolf Busch (1891-1952) Germania

12. Pinchas Zukermann (b.1948) Israel

11. Arthur Grumiaux (1921-86) Belgia

10. Itzhak Perlman (b.1945) Israel-SUA

9. Isaac Stern (1920-2001) Polonia-SUA

8. Ginette Neveu (1919-49) Franţa

7. Joseph Szigeti (1892-1973) Ungaria

6. Gidon Kremer (n.1947) Germania/Lituania

5. Nathan Milstein (1903-92) Rusia – SUA

4. Yehudi Menuhin (1916-99) SUA

3. Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) Austria

2. Jascha Heifetz (1901-87) Lituania- SUA

1. David Oistrakh (1908-74) Ukraina 

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Dr N Rajam

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David Oistrakh

Stéphane Grappelli

No third choice made

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Josef Roisman & Alexander Schneider*

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Cho-Liang Lin

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Andrew Manze

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Adolf Busch

Stuff Smith

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Arthur Grumiaux

Joseph Szigeti

Rupert Marshall-Luck

Itzhak Perlman

Norbert Brainin

Gábor Tákacs-Nagy

Anthony Marwood

Adolf Busch

Joseph Szigeti

Albert Sammons

Robert McDuffie

Yehudi Menuhin

Jascha Heifetz** (see end of list for explanation)

Itzhak Perlman

Anne Akiko Meyers

Jascha Heifetz

Gidon Kremer

David Oistrakh

Roman Mints

Fritz Kreisler

David Oistrakh

Oleg Kagan

Priya Mitchell

Bronisław Huberman

Yehudi Menuhin

Gidon Kremer

Lydia Mordkovitch

David Oistrakh

Jascha Heifetz

George Enescu

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Leonid Kogan

Viktor Tretiakov

Florin Niculescu

Tai Murray

Ginette Neveu

Toscha Seidel

Frank Peter Zimmermann

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Fritz Kreisler

David Oistrakh

Nathan Milstein

Gordan Nikolitch

Jacques Thibaud

Jascha Heifetz

August Wilhelmj

Krysia Osostowicz (Dante Quartet)

Yehudi Menuhin

Joseph Szigeti

Wanda Wilkomirska

Peter Oundjian

David Oistrakh

Itzhak Perlman

Pinchas Zukerman

Ruth Palmer

Viktoria Mullova

Miriam Fried

Ginette Neveu

Itzhak Perlman

Fritz Kreisler

Jascha Heifetz

Isaac Stern

Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian (Trio Wanderer)

Jascha Heifetz

David Oistrakh

Christian Ferras

Jennifer Pike

Jascha Heifetz

Fritz Kreisler

Hugh Bean

Rachel Podger

Gidon Kremer

Ginette Neveu

Reinhard Goebel

Philippe Quint

David Oistrakh

Jascha Heifetz

Itzhak Perlman

Daniel Rohn

Jascha Heifetz

Henryk Szeryng

Pinchas Zukerman

Daniel Rowland (Brodsky Quartet)

Ivry Gitlis

David Oistrakh

Gidon Kremer

Pieter Schoeman (London Philharmonic Orchestra)

Jascha Heifetz

Pinchas Zukerman

Michael Rabin

Károly Schranz (Takács Quartet)

Joseph Szigeti

David Oistrakh

Yehudi Menuhin

Gil Shaham

Fritz Kreisler

Jascha Heifetz

David Oistrakh

Hagai Shaham

Jascha Heifetz

Fritz Kreisler

Nathan Milstein

Dmitry Sitkovetsky

Jascha Heifetz

David Oistrakh

Yehudi Menuhin

Alexander Sitkovetsky

Jascha Heifetz

Fritz Kreisler

Josef Suk

Peter Sheppard Skærved

Louis Krasner

Ralph Holmes

Emil Telmányi

Baiba Skride

David Oistrakh

Nathan Milstein

Henryk Szeryng

Callum Smart

David Oistrakh

Fritz Kreisler

Pinchas Zukerman

Valeriy Sokolov

Yehudi Menuhin

Isaac Stern

George Enescu

Alexandra Soumm

David Oistrakh

Leonid Kogan

Mikhail Kopelman

Simon Standage

Szymon Goldberg

Franco Gulli

Pinchas Zukerman

Arabella Steinbacher

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Nathan Milstein

Lara St John

Fritz Kreisler

Bronisław Huberman

Joseph Szigeti

Gábor Takács-Nagy (Takács Quartet)

Yehudi Menuhin

Joseph Szigeti

David Oistrakh

Antoine Tamestit (V)

David Oistrakh

Nathan Milstein

Frank Peter Zimmermann

Richard Tognetti

Ivry Gitlis

Fritz Kreisler

Sigiswald Kuijken

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Jascha Heifetz

Fritz Kreisler

David Oistrakh

Matthew Trusler

Ruggiero Ricci

Jean-Jacques Kantorow

Nathan Milstein

Maxim Vengerov

Fritz Kreisler

Jascha Heifetz

David Oistrakh

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Jascha Heifetz

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Joseph Szigeti

Adolf Busch

Frank Peter Zimmermann

David Oistrakh

Nathan Milstein

Arthur Grumiaux

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Pinchas Zukerman

Pinchas Zukerman

Jascha Heifetz

Nathan Milstein

Isaac Stern

* Vioara I şi II de la Budapest String Quartet

**Argumentul specific al lui Robert McDuffie pentru Jascha Heifetz: ” A fost un nascisist muzical. M-a inspirat în ce să nu fac”. 

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