Paganini: Music for Violin & Strings
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NICOLAI PAGANINI
Paganini: Music for Violin & Strings
Gabriele Pieranunzi (solo violin), with Salvatore Lombardo, Loana Stratulat (violins), Luca Improta (viola) & chamber ensemble
[ Brilliant Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 6 October 2023
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Paganini was the first great 'star' of instrumental music, the precursor of the rock stars of today, able to induce collective hysteria as well as to dictate fashion and to influence the behaviour of entire generations. He did this by transforming the violin into an orchestra of multiple voices and timbral experimentation, in other words, stretching the very limits of what a single instrument could do.
This programme is particularly interesting, both for the quality of the performances as well as the new chamber-string versions created by Francesco Fiore and Salvatore Lombardo. It also juxtaposes extremely popular Paganini works alongside compositions not very often heard in the concert hall but which help flesh out our understanding of the artistry of a composer too often misjudged as merely an acrobat of the violin.
Tracks:
Violin Concerto No. 2, MS 48: III. Rondò 'la campanella'
Sonata 'a preghiera', MS 23 (Moses Fantasy)
Cantabile, MS 109
Le streghe, MS 19 (Witches' Dance)
Sonata No. 6 in E Minor, MS 27/6
Sonata No. 3 in D Major, MS 27/3
Duetto concertante No. 1 in E-Flat Major
Duetto concertante No. 2 in G Major, MS 107/2
Duetto concertante No. 3 in A Major, MS 107/3
