Iskender Savasir wrote:

>A question that is somewhat important to my enterprise whether Telemann
>composed his 12 fantasias for violin before or after Bach's work.

According to Grove Telemann's works date from 1735, Bach's Sonatas and
Partitas are from 1720.

>About the (post) romantic era (anthese are almost childhood reminiscences)
>I remember the Reger sonatas and those of Ysaye- again I don't have any
>recordings of those.

Hindemith, Bartok, Kodaly, Berio, Kurtag, Ligeti, Britten to name but a
few, have all written solo string works of importance.

Happy hunting

Paul Silverthorne
Principal Viola - London Symphony Orchestra; London Sinfonietta
Professor of Viola - Royal Academy of Music London