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María Dueñas on Caprices
10th Mar 2025
The violinist gives us a peek behind the scenes of how her new album centred around Paganini's legendary Caprices came to be.
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Caprices from María Dueñas
14th Feb 2025
The violinist presents a sparkling double album of caprices - a dazzling rendition of Paganini's famous set of twenty-four is complemented by works by Cervelló, Ortiz, Saint-Saëns and others.
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Fenella Humphreys on Caprices
24th Mar 2022
The violinist talks to Katherine about how her new album sprang in part from conquering childhood demons about Paganini, and how commissioning a host of composers to contribute to a new set of micro-variations on his Caprice No. 24 for the project 'brought some absolutely brilliant people into her life'.
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Caprices
Fenella Humphreys (violin)
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Alina Ibragimova performs Paganini's Caprices
30th Apr 2021
The violinist releases the results of a uniquely ambitious "lockdown project" – a barnstorming new account of Paganini's fiendish Caprices, recorded in the late spring of 2020.
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Paganini: 24 Caprices
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
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Francesca Dego on Paganini's Violin
22nd Feb 2021
The violinist talks about her new recording on Paganini's own violin, featuring works by, dedicated to and responding to the great composer.
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Ning Feng on Virtuosismo
9th Oct 2019
The Chinese violinist shares his thoughts on balancing virtuosity and lyricism in two tremendously demanding concertos by Paganini and Vieuxtemps, out now on Channel Classics and one of Katherine's personal picks from the September releases.
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Rachel Barton Pine on Paganini
29th Jun 2017
David talks to the American violinist about her new album, centred on Paganini's fiendishly difficult Caprices but also featuring a new work composed by Pine herself.
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Bel Canto Paganini
Rachel Barton Pine (violin)
