Performer: Francesca Dego, Francesca Leonardi
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Release: 2021
Size: 1.15 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Niccolò Paganini:
01. Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 7: Rondo ‘La Campanella 6:35 – Arr. F. Kreisler for Violin & Piano
Fritz Kreisler:
Recitative & Scherzo Caprice, Op. 6
02. I. Recitativo
03. II. Scherzo-Caprice
John Corigliano:
04. The Red Violin Caprices (for violin solo)
Carlo Boccadoro:
05. Come d’autunno
Niccolò Paganini:
06. Cantabile for violin & piano / guitar in D major, Op. 17, MS 109
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini:
07. Un Mot à Paganini
Alfred Schnittke:
08. A Paganini for violin solo
Karol Szymanowski:
Paganini Caprices, Op. 40
09. No. 1, — (After Caprice No. 20)
10. No. 2, — (After Caprice No. 21)
11. No. 3, — (After Caprice No. 24)
Paganini’s violin, the legendary ‘il Cannone’, made by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù in 1743, is one of the most important musical instruments in the history of Western music. Paganini was the greatest virtuoso of his time, acclaimed throughout Europe and an inspiration to performers and composers alike. On his death, he bequeathed ‘il Cannone’ to his home city of Genoa, where it is permanently housed under high security in the Town Hall. It has been heard on record just a handful of times. Francesca Dego was given the honour of recording with it after the success of her first performance on the instrument, in October 2019, when she was invited to play Paganini’s First Violin Concerto at the Paganini Celebratory Concert at Teatro Carlo Felice, in Genoa. Francesca Dego comments: ‘I feel so privileged to be able to share the soul of ‘il Cannone’ in a new recording. I remember thinki ng long and hard about the ideal programme and carefully selecting a series of works paying homage to Paganini. The ‘Cannon’ has pretty much only ever been used to record music by Paganini, so the idea of its celebrated tone teaming up with composers who idolised the Italian virtuoso throughout history is really exciting to me!’