Paganini reviews
Paganini: 24 Caprices (Ibragimova)
Alina Ibragimova (violin) (Hyperion)
Paganini • Tartini • Vivaldi: Concertos, etc
Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), Massimiliano Toni (harpsichord); L’arte del mondo/Werner Ehrhardt (Sony Classical)
Il Cannone (Francesca Dego)
Francesca Dego (violin), Francesca Leonardi (piano) (Chandos)
Paganini: 24 Caprices (Feng)
Ning Feng (violin) (Channel Classics)
Solo, Vol. 1 (Andrey Baranov)
Andrey Baranov (violin) (Muso)
Paganini: Sonatas for Violin and Guitar
Fabio Biondi & Giangiacomo Pinardi (Glossa)
Paganini: 24 Caprices
Roman Simovic (LSO Live)
Paganini: Caprices for Solo Violin
Lisa Jacobs (Cobra Records)
Francesca Dego performs violin concertos by Paganini and Wolf-Ferrari
Paganini’s First Concerto used to be played by only a handful of devotees – even now, despite taking all the once-traditional cuts, Yehudi Menuhin’s early 1960s stereo account with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Alberto Erede (EMI/Warner) comes closest to making all those Rossini-in-overdrive pyrotechnics sound musically compelling. Since then, a number of distinguished accounts have emerged, ranging from those by Midori and Itzhak Perlman to those by Maxim Vengerov and Hilary Hahn.