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[Hadelich] manages to unravel Paganini’s nerve-shredding intricacies at speed while sustaining absolute tonal composure. The frankly ludicrous string-darting and hopping of No. 2 is negotiated... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The playing is almost always full-on, and I sometimes found myself wanting greater variety of tone, especially in the more delicate passages…The sound is close and warm – despite appearing on... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars/5 out of 5 stars More…

Fischer plays these notorious finger-breakers as though they were amongst the most treasured pieces in the repertoire...she dons the various rhetorical disguises Paganini assumes...with engaging... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Accardo/Paganini cycle remains a secure first choice: the Concertos are brilliantly and imaginatively played and well recorded. Indeed, these accounts do not fall down in any department. — Penguin Guide, 2011 edition More…

This electrifying music with its dare-devil virtuosity has long remained the pinnacle of violin technique, and the Caprices encapsulate the essence of the composer's style. For a long time it... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

If anyone is ever likely to convince you that there is more to Paganini's music than Rossini-in-technical overdrive melodramatics, it is Tanja Becker-Bender. …Becker-Bender gives the Italian's... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

What in other recordings is somewhat predictable here becomes an exciting journey. Where we were once content simply to marvel at the pyrotechnics, now, because of Gringolts's acute sense of... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2013 More…