Paganini: Caprices for solo violin, Op. 1 Nos. 1-24

What she’s come up with here is a strong offering…distinctiveness again, within an overall approach that sits mostly on the gentler, beautiful-toned end of the scale, as her bouncing, mellow-toned... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018 More…

Release Date: 3rd Aug 2018
Catalogue No: COBRA0064
Label: Cobra
Length: 86 minutes

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Lisa Jacobs

No. 1 in E Major 'L'Arpeggio': Andante

Track length1:59

No. 2 in B Minor: Moderato

Track length3:37

No. 3 in E Minor: Sostenuto – Presto – Sostenuto

Track length3:49

No. 4 in C Minor: Maestoso

Track length8:17

No. 5 in A Minor: Agitato

Track length2:38

No. 6 in G Minor 'The Trill': Lento

Track length5:17

No. 7 in A Minor: Posato

Track length4:32

No. 8 in E-flat Major: Maestoso

Track length3:14

No. 9 in E Major 'La chasse': Allegretto

Track length3:43

No. 10 in G Minor: Vivace

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No. 11 in C Major: Andante – Presto – Primo tempo

Track length4:38

No. 12 in A-flat Major: Allegro

Track length2:44

No. 13 in B-flat Major 'Devil's Laughter': Allegro

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No. 14 in E-flat Major: Moderato

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No. 15 in E Minor: Posato

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No. 16 in G Minor: Presto

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No. 17 in E-flat Major: Sostenuto – Andante

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No. 18 in C Major: Corrente – Allegro

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No. 19 in E-flat Major: Lento – Allegro Assai

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No. 20 in D Major: Allegretto

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No. 21 in A Major: Amoroso – Presto

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No. 22 in F Major: Marcato

Track length2:36

No. 23 in E-flat Major: Posato

Track length4:39

No. 24 in A Minor: Tema quasi presto - Variazioni - Finale

Track length5:11

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No violinist can escape them: Paganini’s Caprices. A beautiful, infamous cycle of 24 works for violin solo with an enormous arsenal of technical delights.

With his 24 Caprices Niccolò Paganini set out to fascinate the audience and play the kind of music that people had never experienced before. As a young talent Niccolò had shocked and enraged the public by imitating animals using his violin and in the Caprices he elaborated on that earlier experimentation. Bird- song, hunting horns, laughter, donkeys - they were all brought to life through his instrument. When it comes to special techniques and almost impossible dexterity, his 24 Caprices go a step further than Locatellis. Above all Paganini’s caprices are full of drama. Calm and moving passages interchange without warning withfiery, almost violent passages.

For Lisa Jacobs it is not the technical aspects of the music, but exactly that enormous variety in the musical characters, the extraordinary sound landscape, and the fantasy and lyricism that has amazed her all her life and has been an inspiration for this recording.

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October 2018

What she’s come up with here is a strong offering…distinctiveness again, within an overall approach that sits mostly on the gentler, beautiful-toned end of the scale, as her bouncing, mellow-toned No. 1 sets up…Tempo-wise, Jacobs occupies roughly the same comfortable, instinctive-feeling ball park as other recent recordings have done, achieving the desired impressions of speed and space without plunging into extremes.

Paganini: Caprices for solo violin, Op. 1 Nos. 1-24

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