Paganini: 24 Capricci For Solo Violin
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Release Date: 24 June 2009
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028947633181
Release Date: 24 June 2009
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028947633181
Description
One of today's most versatile violinists presents an account of Paganini's Caprices - an unsurpassed compendium of technical difficulties - played as "improvised character pieces". Zehetmair reveals extraordinary technical perfection coupled with uniquely imaginative insight and a sense of musical drama.
Conductor, chamber musician, ardent pioneer of contemporary composition and an adventurous soloist, Thomas Zehetmair is certainly the most versatile artist among the performers of the Caprices by Niccol Paganini (1782-1840), the set of 24 hair-raisingly difficult violin studies that established new standards of the instrument's technical possibilities. Zehetmair's overwhelming and critically acclaimed ECM recording of the Sonatas for unaccompanied violin by Ysa e, released in 2004, offered ample proof that alleged virtuoso pyrotechnics can be surprisingly multi-faceted and complex when approached by a musician with a rare awareness of stylistic layers and expressive traditions. His (long deleted) Teldec version of the Capricci from the early 90s quickly won benchmark status. In 2007 he went to the Austrian monastery of St. Gerold to record a second - even more ambitious - interpretation whose improvisational freedom conveys all the demonic and haunting aspects of the music.
Both Zehetmair's solo records and his quartet albums on ECM have met with unanimous praise in recent years - especially the Zehetmair Quartet's Schumann disc which was Gramophone's Record of the Year.
Personnel: Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Tracklisting
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Mikneviciute
Arvo Part
Thomas Larcher
John Holloway Ensemble
Heinz Holliger & Anton Kernjak
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Tonu Kaljuste
Karlheinz Stockhausen Michaels Reise
Thomas Zehetmair
Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius & Royal Northern Sinfonia
Thomas Zehetmair