Composer: Niccolò Paganini
Performer: Paganini Ensemble Vienna
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Dynamic
Catalogue: CDS7938
Release: 2022
Size: 1.24 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Guitar Quartet No. 15 in A minor, MS42
01. I. Maestoso
02. II. Minuetto a canone. Andantino
03. III. Recitativo
04. IV. Adagio cantabile
05. V. Rondo. Allegretto
Guitar Quartet No. 14 in A major, MS41
06. I. Allegro maestoso
07. II. Minuetto scherzo. Allegretto
08. III. Largo con sentimento
09. IV. Finale. Allegro vivace
Guitar Quartet No. 7 in E major, MS34
10. I. Allegro moderato
11. II. Minuetto. Allegretto
12. III. Adagio cantabile. Sostenuto con passione
13. IV. Rondo. Vivace
Niccolò Paganini’s Quartets for Strings and Guitar offer some of the best examples of his inexhaustible creativity, including ideas and themes that were later included in his more famous concertos. The Seventh Quartet combines mastery of form with endless melodic inventiveness, while the Fourteenth is more virtuosic, allowing its dedicatee to shine as a violinist with splendid effectiveness. The dark colour of the viola gives unique timbre to the Fifteenth Quartet which, with its moments of operatic expressiveness, is outstanding in Paganini’s chamber music output. Volume 1 of this edition (CDS7912) was considered “first-rate” in every regard by the American Record Guide.