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It was not until he was twenty-seven years old that Paganini embarked on the concert tours which made him the most talked-about violinist of his time. He gave up his permanent position at the court of Princess Élisa Baciocchi in Lucca in December 1809, and began by giving concerts in various towns in northern Italy. His triumphs in Milan in 1813 established his national reputation, and he finally gained international fame in 1828, on his first tour outside Italy. Of the six concertos he is currently known to have composed, he wrote nos. I and 2 for performance in Italy, the first probably in 1815–16, the second in 1826. …

This recording of Niccolo Paganini’s Caprices is the first for viola since Emanuel Vardi’s complete recording for Epic, in 1965.

No violinist can escape them: Paganini’s Caprices. A beautiful, infamous cycle of 24 works for violin solo with an enormous arsenal of technical delights.

For his debut solo album, the Leader of the London Symphony Orchestra showcases his virtuosity and innate musicality, navigating the technical and artistic challenges of Paganini’s 24 Caprices for solo violin. Staples of the violinist’s impressive repertoire, as a budding musician Simovic would practice these works daily in place of scales, and has gone on to delight audiences with performances across the globe.

After a formidable first volume, Cedric Tiberghien continues his exploration of Beethoven's corpus of variations.

Chopin's 24 Préludes, unlike those of Bach, do not precede either fugue or sung chorale. The term underlines the modesty of these short, simply shaped pieces. But these pieces prelude each other, since they form a carefully ordered whole, according to the cycle of fifths, to sweep through the twenty-four major and minor keys.

Composti tra il 1805 e il 1817 e pubblicati da Giulio Ricordi, i 24 Capricci sono una testimonianza delle capacità del violino e mostrano tecniche perfezionate o innovate da Paganini.

Available on Centaur Records and all major streaming platforms on March 8, 2024. Classical piano music influenced by blues, folk, jazz, musical theater, samba, tango, techno and other contemporary genres. Works by Samuel Barber, Mary Ellen Childs, Gabriela Lena Frank, Fred Hersch, Dana Suesse and Karen Tanaka.

In 24 Preludes op. 28, Chopin’s classicist side governs the work’s unified key structure with the pieces arranged in pairs ofmajor and minor keys ascending in intervals of a fifth. Chopin as teacher prevails in how nearly each Prelude either addresses a particular technical challenge or is constructed according to a specific textural agenda. A Romantic sensibility lies at the heart of the music’s diversity of moods, brash declamatory gestures and frequent harmonic sleights-of-hand, yet, Chopin being Chopin, it is controlled Romanticism, and strikingly original at every turn.

Published in 1820, Paganini's 24 Capricci met with immediate success and a reputation for being “unplayable”.