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Niccolò Paganini: Caprice No. 24 in A Minor for Violin
Niklas Liepe, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern & Gregor Bühl
Il carnevale di Venezia, Op. 10 (Live from Waldbühne, Berlin / 2002)
Vadim Repin, Berlin Philharmonic & Mariss Jansons
Paganini: Grande Sonata in A Major, MS 3: 1. Allegro risoluto
Eugenio Della Chiara & Piercarlo Sacco
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6: I. Allegro Maestoso (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, July 5, 1959)
Ivry Gitlis
Caprice No. 5 in A Minor for Violin, Op. 1, No. 5
Niklas Liepe, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern & Gregor Bühl
Paganini: 24 Caprices for Violin, Op. 1: No. 13 in B-Flat Major (Arr. Bandini for Guitar)
Giampaolo Bandini
Paganini: Grande Sonata in A Major, MS 3: 3. Andantino Variato. Scherzando
Eugenio Della Chiara & Piercarlo Sacco
Fantasia dei gatti (Paganini: Caprice No. 17)
Augustin Hadelich
Paganini: Grande Sonata in A Major, MS 3: 2. Romanza: Più tosto largo
Eugenio Della Chiara & Piercarlo Sacco
About Niccolò Paganini
Artist Biography
Paganini was a man of the theatre, a born performer who enhanced the musical impact of his appearances by dressing his pale, skeletal frame in funereal black to create the impression of a reanimated human cadaver. To add to the mystique, he collected in his handwritten parts after every performance to ensure that no-one could learn the secrets of his pyrotechnical legerdemain. Yet behind all the window dressing, Paganini, born in Genoa in 1782, was a deeply serious artist, whose 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1 (1817) form a priceless compendium of cutting-edge techniques, ranging from “thrown” bow strokes to contortionist multiple stops for the left hand. No less impactful are his six Rossini-in-overdrive violin concertos, the second of which—“La Campanella” (1826)—features twinkling, bell-like harmonics in the finale. Yet Paganini’s most lasting legacy was his reversal of interpretive norms. From now on, performers would attempt to make even the most fiendish passages appear effortless, while slow movements were ruminated over at length. Following Paganini’s death in 1840, music would never quite be the same.
Hometown
Genoa, Italy
Genre
Classical