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

Paganini: Violin Concertos | Niccolo Paganini, Charles Dutoit, ... | pure genius-pure brilliance-and under-appreciated

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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

Oh Yea!

Wonderful performance of wonderful music. Salvatore Accardo not only performs it perfectly but also with the necessary amount of emotion and abandon required for playing Paganini. Any soloist recording for DG or EMI, RCA, etc. is required to give a flawless performance but this music demands more. Lets say, for us car nuts, that a proper performance of this music should make you feel like your driving a Ferrari. A bright red Ferrari. A 12-cyl, adrenaline injected, 600 hp, Italian piece of art. It should make you feel like your driving through the Alps, at 150 mph, with the top down, and yes, Cindy Crawford in the passenger seat just begging you to slow down! Salvatore Accardo's performance does this for me, not all performers can. The volume begs to be turned up.

By contrast, Sarah Chang's performance of the first Concerto makes me feel like I'm driving a Camry, at the speed limit, across Iowa, with Julia Childs politely asking me to speed it up a little. Don't get me wrong it's perfectly nice, played with Sino-perfection, but it's the acoustical equivalent of Sominex.

Anyway you will not regret buying this CD, and besides for all 6 Concertos, it's a bargain.

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pure genius-pure brilliance-and under-appreciated

Most musicologists consider Paganini to be the greatest violinist the world has ever known. He essentially created techniques for his instrument that were unheard of before him, and to this day, his compositions define the technical limitations of the violin. In essence, he was the first virtuoso of any instrument. He made Liszt want to make the piano sound like his violin and made others so jealous of his abilities that they said he was possesed. Paganini is a paragon of the 19th century Romantic virtuoso. Unfortunately, his violin concertos have not received the same attention as his brilliant technical gifts and his famous cappricios. What one finds on these 3 cd's is perhaps some of the most wonderful, and dramatically challenging pieces ever written for the violin. In fact, Schubert admired Paganini's compositional abilities so much that he once said that Paganini's compositions made the violin sing like an angel. These cd's show that Paganini was more than just a technical wizard. He created beautiful violin concertos that stand up musically on their own. The pure joy and brilliance of these pieces will astonish you. Salvatore Accardo's playing is flawless and simply mind boggling! I have found myself enjoying and playing these 6 concerti far more often than violin concerti by Beethoven, Mozart, etc., etc. It was only until the 1970's when any of Paganini's 6 violin concerti were recorded on a major label! Paganini is slowy gaining more popularity and is destined to get the respect he deserves in musical history as a first rate composer thanks to releases like this one. Now, when will the concert halls of Europe and America wake up and start performing Paganini's music? I predict that once you here these recordings, you will realize that it is just a matter of time. After all, this music once completely dazzled and entranced audiances all across Europe and made Paganini famous and much respeted.-----NO CLASSICAL LIBRARY SHOULD BE WITHOUT THIS RECORDING.

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500 stars would be more like it

I'm not old enough so I could compare with Paganini own playing, but I was at the right time for discovering Salvatore Accardo. The least I can say is that I didn't know violin could sound like this, and what put it perfect is that Ch. Dutoit and London P.O. are more than a good support, as well with a flawless recording quality.

Mesmerizing violin playing!

Paganini's writing for the violin can hypnotize. His intent was to beguile the listener. One is not listening to merely a violin. One is listening to a passionate outpouring that transfixes the listener to a state of swaggering over-self confidence. That is what Salvatore Accardo conveyes in his playing of these six concerti. His mastery allows the passion come through as strongly as a late autumn blaze of afternoon sunshine. This is a must have for any listener who enjoys violin virtuosity.

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Purely Ethereal

Can anyone top Salvatore Accardo? I'm a violin enthusiast and I've heard scores of violinists play Paganini's Concerto No. 1, the most popular of the bunch. Each has their own unique style. But Accardo is way out of their league. His rendition of pizicattis, apojaturas, double-stops are simply mind-boggling.