Composer: Niccolò Paganini, Myroslav Skoryk
Orchestra: Lviv International Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Alexander Zemtsov
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0463
Release: 2018
Size: 1.25 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
24 Caprices, Op. 1, MS 25 (Arr. M. Skoryk for Orchestra)
01. No. 1 in E Major
02. No. 2 in B Minor
03. No. 3 in E Minor
04. No. 4 in C Minor
05. No. 5 in A Minor
06. No. 6 in G Minor
07. No. 7 in A Minor
08. No. 8 in E-Flat Major
09. No. 9 in E Major
10. No. 10 in G Minor
11. No. 11 in C Major
12. No. 12 in A-Flat Major
13. No. 13 in B-Flat Major
14. No. 14 in E-Flat Major
15. No. 15 in E Minor
16. No. 16 in G Minor
17. No. 17 in E-Flat Major
18. No. 18 in C Major
19. No. 19 in E-Flat Major
20. No. 20 in D Major
21. No. 21 in A Major
22. No. 22 in F Major
23. No. 23 in E-Flat Major
24. No. 24 in A Minor
Some composers – Enescu, Schumann and Szymanowski among them – have had a go at adding piano accompaniments to Paganini’s 24 Capricci for solo violin, but the Ukrainian Myroslav Skoryk (b. 1938) is the first composer to go the whole hog and orchestrate all 24 of them. His orchestrations have turned Paganini’s virtuosic violin-writing into a succession of symphonic fireworks, often injecting a touch of humour along the way. This recording is released to mark Myroslav Skoryk’s 80th birthday. It is the first of a series of collaborations planned between Toccata Classics and the Lviv International Symphony Orchestra in Lviv, western Ukraine.