Concertos, Paganini (composer)
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Paganini: 24 Caprices
Recommendedplus Caprices by Berlioz, Cervelló, Kreisler, Ortiz, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Wieniawski
María Dueñas (violin), Itamar Golan (piano), Boris Kuschnir (violin), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Mihhail Gerts
The Paganini Caprices have energy in the bowing from the outset, confident octaves and portamento, and impeccable double stops...You could listen straight through, but I’d recommend random shuffling... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th February 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Il Cannone - Francesca Dego plays Paganini's violin
Francesca Dego (violin), Francesca Leonardi (piano)
Dego has an expressive touch, skittering over the strings, yet finding plenty of attack in Szymanowski’s Trois Caprices. Corigliano’s Red Violin Caprices are at times spellbinding, descending... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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Paganini: 24 Caprices
Recommendedplus Caprices by Berlioz, Cervelló, Kreisler, Ortiz, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Wieniawski
María Dueñas (violin), Itamar Golan (piano), Boris Kuschnir (violin), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Mihhail Gerts
The Paganini Caprices have energy in the bowing from the outset, confident octaves and portamento, and impeccable double stops...You could listen straight through, but I’d recommend random shuffling... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th February 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Special offer. Butterfly Lovers Concerto & Paganini
Chloe Chua (violin), Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago
The SSO give tremendously impassioned support to the individual instrumentalists, led by Chua’s expressive, storytelling violin. —
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Paganini - Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Ilya Kaler (violin)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gunzenhauser
Ilya Kaler is a Russian virtuoso, a pupil of Leonid Kogan. He's a first-rate fiddler and an excellent musician. Paganini's once fiendish pyrotechnics hold no terrors for him, not even the whistling... —
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Hadelich's refinement and excitement carry one through these very diverse works. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Special offer. Essentia
Works for Viola & Orchestra
Dana Zemtsov (viola)
National Estonian Orchestra, Daniel Raiskin
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Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 & Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 8
RecommendedHilary Hahn (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eiji Oue
There have been a number of fine accounts of Paganini's First Concerto down the years… Hilary Hahn plays the score complete and with such effortless command that the listener might be fooled... —
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Building a Library, November 2009, Highly Recommended
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