Recommended Recordings
In addition to practicing every day, the best way to achieve progress is to regularly listen to violinist who play better than you do. You should listen to recordings of the pieces that you are working on every day. If you know how your pieces are supposed to sound, then you know what you are working towards. Listening to your pieces will also help you get familiar with the piano accompaniment. If you are working on pieces from Books I through IV of the Suzuki method, David Cerone has recorded CDs with the repertoire from those books. You should also listen to standard violin repertoire recorded by great violinists. The following recommendations include the most famous violin pieces by prominent musicians along with some of my personal favorites. Amazon.com and Borders Books and Music are both excellent sources to find recordings.
Solo violin
J. S. Bach
Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin
Gérard Poulet, violin
Arion (ARN 268296)
N. Paganini
24 Caprices for Solo Violin (Op. 1)
Itzhak Perlman, violin
EMI Classics (077774717120)
E. Ysa˙e
Six Sonatas for Solo Violin (Op. 27)
Philippe Graffin, violin
Hyperion (CDA66940)
Concertos
W. A. Mozart
Violin Concertos Nos. 3-5
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Philips (446231-2)
J. Brahms and J. Sibelius
Concertos for violin
Ginette Neveu, violin
EMI (CDH 7610112)
Sonatas for violin and piano
L. van Beethoven
The Complete Violin Sonatas (Vol. 1 and 2)
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Ingrid Haebler, piano
Philips (446 521-2) and (446 524-2)
J. Brahms
The 3 Violin Sonatas
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Sony (SK 45819)
W. A. Mozart
The Great Violin Sonatas (Vol. 1 and 2)
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Ingrid Haebler, piano
Philips (289 462 185-2) and (289 462 303-2)
Others
The First Recordings of Ginette Neveu and The Complete Recordings of Josef Hassid
Ginette Neveu and Joseph Hassid, violin
Testament (SBT 1010)