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Ordinarily I’m not a fan of flashy violin music, but this has to be one of the smartest, most brilliantly executed recitals to come along
Put on this 1954 all-Paganini recital from the Library of Congress and you’ll be awestruck at the sheer musicality, proportion, and taste behind Zino Francescatti’s
I have a personal confession that relates to discussing this recording: I am a violist, one who came to the instrument after many years as
Until now, the recent parade of new Bruch violin concerto recordings has overlooked the somber and dramatic No. 2. This concerto’s unusual ordering of movements
Paganini’s First and Second violin concertos were taped for Naxos several years ago by the Russian violin virtuoso Ilya Kaler. At the time these seemed
No matter how you cut it, this is terrific violin playing. And the best–somewhat ironically, considering the disc’s title–comes after the program’s opening Tartini (“Devil’s
The first thing that struck me hearing Ruggiero Ricci’s 1950 Decca recording of the Tchaikovsky Concerto was its unusually rich and vibrant sound. Roger Beardsley’s
Two of the finest recordings of Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor–Henryk Szeryng’s Philips account with the London Symphony under Alexander Gibson, and
Salvatore Accardo’s famous DG survey of the Paganini violin concertos with Charles Dutoit and the London Philharmonic, recorded during the mid-1970s, has recently reappeared in
Salvatore Accardo’s latest recordings of Paganini’s Violin Concerto in E minor (sometimes known as No. “0” but more usually listed as No. 6) and Concerto
