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Violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Paganini’s 24 Caprices (12 at the Phillips and then 12 at the National Gallery) on Jan. 27. (Andrew Eccles) ...
Paganini: 24 Caprices, transcribed for guitar by Eliot Fisk (Eliot Fisk, guitar; MusicMasters). Paganini’s fiendishly difficult technical studies were, of course, originally written for violin ...
Violinist Yang In-mo expressed confidence in performing Niccolo Paganini’s 24 caprices for solo violin -- notorious for their difficulty -- during a showcase at Kumho Art Hall in Seoul on Monday ...
Homage to Paganini. Partita and Caprice for Solo Violin This intimate candlelight concert showcases the raw brilliance and emotional depth of the solo violin - a journey into the world of virtuosity!
Paganini was known for his legendary skills on the violin. Not the flute. But that hasn't stopped Katherine Bryan from turning one of Paganini's most daring Caprices into a smashing flute piece in its ...
Known particularly for his fiendish 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Paganini helped popularise certain string techniques such as bow bounces – spiccato – as well as left-hand pizzicato and harmonics. He ...
The Caprice No. 24 was a “happy case” as both in the guitar and the violin, the process is the same — about experimenting with the different possibilities of the instrument, he adds.
American violinist Rachel Barton Pine (born 1974) studied her first Paganini Caprice for solo violin at the age of 10, and she is brave enough to perform all 24 as a set in concert. She also plays ...
The Three Paganini Caprices were first performed by the Goldfeld-Szymanowski duo in Elisavetgrad on 25th April 1918. Rather than mechanically adding piano accompaniment to the original violin part, ...
He began by concentrating on the music of Paganini, and carefully analysed all 24 Caprices down into a system where he could see Paganini's manner of fingering, shifting and bowing.