Paganini: Violin Concertos | Niccolo Paganini, Charles Dutoit, ...

Paganini: Violin Concertos | Niccolo Paganini, Charles Dutoit, ... | Magestic, or topped?

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	Paganini: Violin Concertos Niccolo Paganini, Charles Dutoit, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1993 average customer review:based on 16 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Absolutely stunning ....

I have had an opportunity to listen to Paganini's 1st (less freq. the 2nd) concerto many times(Markov,Perlman,Francescatti, Gitlis,Ricci,Menuhin,Grimaux etc.) and I can assure you that Accardo - especially his cadenza - is far the best I have ever heard and you can hear today. Accardo doesn't plays his fastest and doesn't show off his amazing technique like most of the other violinist (although he is able to play twice as fast as he shows here...) but he devotes all the technique to the needs of music and this is what's so amazing about him. He prizes precision and lyricism mostand his fascinating technique is just the servant, not the lord of music. Also notice that he never skips anything or never just plays something messily - even in the most difficult and fastest parts you can hear simply every single tone. By the way, no other violinist in the world has ever recorded (and played) so much of Paganini's music...well,to tell you the truth,Accardo played and recorded everything that came down from Paganini's time! If you don't know yet, you can find more in Deutche Grammophon catalogue (Accardo play various variations - "God Save the King" etc. - when you hear it, you will believe that he is the same "devil" as Paganini was thought to be) or check the EMI's title "Works for violin and orchestra" where Accardo for instance plays Paganini's Carnevale di Venezia" the way that keeps your mouth opened... As for his concertos again, I really do wonder who else next dares to record all the 6 concertos, Capprices and all the other works of Paganini. I consider Mr.Accardo to be one of the best violin player that were ever born.

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Magestic, or topped?

Well first of all, I give the guy five stars because it takes guts to play all six of Paganini's works for solo violin and orchestra. However, there is a guy named Ilya Kaler, who has recieved a gold in the Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, and Paganini violin competitions (the only one ever), and he can play these better. I have only heard the first two recorded by him (the Rondo movement of No.2 is my favorite!). His CD's are under the Naxos label. For the person that posted first: I can play the Adagio of No.1 better than that guy. Yes, he has the accuracy down, however what sets Perlman and Heifeitz apart is their ability to speed that technical abilty up. Paganini dazzled crowds with the technical virtuosity and SPEED, hence why some songs are played on only one string (sul G). Also, the only person that could top Perlman's alacrity and musicianship on the 24 Caprices could only be Paganini himself, so far. Ultimately I would take four or five hours out of my day to listen to these because Paganini is my favorite composer. I just wish he would not have died so young...think of the works he could have made.

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Very Good.

It takes guts for any violinist to record Paganini. The great
Heifetz recorded very little of the wizard of the violin; he had a reputation to maintain; recording Paganini may have dimmed it. Paganini can be very intimidating. In these recordings, at times, Mr. Accardo does seem intimidated, slowing down the tempo in difficult passages. The auditor should be sweating, not the violinist. I've heard most of the performers in the first two works. You need Accardo, Ilya Kaler or Ruggiero Ricci for the rest of them. There are two violinists who played the first two (and best) concertos whose recordings have never been surpassed. The best recording of Concerto #1 is by Leonid Kogan (Francescatti's is neck-and-neck with it - it's just a matter of whose style you prefer)and the best recorded performance of Concerto #2 is the 1964 recording by Ricci, a hair-raiser. In the last 4 concerti it's a toss-up between Accardo and Kaler, but I give a slight nod to Kaler. He has something of Kogan in him, maybe needing a bit more fire. Kavakos is up and coming. I just heard one of the Paganini studies he played that blew my socks off. I haven't heard him play the concerti yet.

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Vincenzo

I say that Signore Salvatore Accardo is a very talented, gifted man but he is not a genius. Not bad at all what he does what he plays it a chararant style that is the real problem. And the other thing is he I also dont like how he plays the chords. Its really amatour I say.

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