Paganini - 24 Capricci for solo violin Op.1 | ECM New Series 4763318

Paganini - 24 Capricci for solo violin Op.1

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Label: ECM New Series

Cat No: 4763318

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 7th September 2009

Contents

Artists

Thomas Zehetmair (violin)

Works

Paganini, Nicolo

Caprices (24) for solo violin, op.1

Artists

Thomas Zehetmair (violin)

About

One of today’s most versatile violinists presents a new account of Paganini’s Caprices – an unsurpassed compendium of technical difficulties – played as “improvised character pieces”. Thomas Zehetmair reveals extraordinary technical perfection coupled with uniquely imaginative insight and a sense of musical drama.

Conductor, chamber musician, ardent pioneer of contemporary composition and an adventurous soloist, Thomas Zehetmair is certainly the most versatile artist among the performers of the Caprices by Nicolò Paganini (1782-1840), the set of 24 hair-raisingly difficult violin studies that established new standards of the instrument’s technical possibilities.

His (long deleted) Teldec version of the Capricci from the early 90s quickly won benchmark status. In 2007 he went to the Austrian monastery of St. Gerold to record a second – even more ambitious – interpretation whose improvisational freedom conveys all the demonic and haunting aspects of the music.

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