Paganini: Sonatas for Violin & Guitar

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Biondi brings his long experience in Baroque violin to these readings, radically different from the usual Romantically-inspired renditions of these sonatas…Biondi’s touch is lighter (his ornaments... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 22nd Jun 2018
Catalogue No: GCD923410
Label: Glossa
Length: 66 minutes

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Paganini: Sonata for violin & guitar in A major, Op. 3 No.6, MS 27 / 6

Work length8:35

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Fabio Biondi (violin), Giangiacomo Pinardi (guitar)
Recorded: 27-29 June 2017
Recording Venue: Centro museístico La Beneficència, Valencia, Spain

I. Larghetto cantabile

Track length3:25

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II. Rondo. Allegro assai

Track length5:10

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Paganini: Centone di sonate, Op. 64, MS 112, Sonata No. 12 in D Major

Work length6:44

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Fabio Biondi (violin), Giangiacomo Pinardi (guitar)
Recorded: 27-29 June 2017
Recording Venue: Centro museístico La Beneficència, Valencia, Spain

I. Andante cantabile

Track length2:33

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II. Rondo. Allegretto

Track length4:11

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Paganini: Sonata concertata for guitar & violin, MS 2

Work length14:00

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Fabio Biondi (violin), Giangiacomo Pinardi (guitar)
Recorded: 27-29 June 2017
Recording Venue: Centro museístico La Beneficència, Valencia, Spain

I. Allegro spiritoso

Track length8:34

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II. Adagio assai espressivo

Track length2:51

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III. Allegretto con brio, scherzando

Track length2:35

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Paganini: Centone di sonate, Op. 64, MS 112, Sonata No. 14 in G Major

Work length10:18

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Fabio Biondi (violin), Giangiacomo Pinardi (guitar)
Recorded: 27-29 June 2017
Recording Venue: Centro museístico La Beneficència, Valencia, Spain

I. Andante - Adagietto

Track length3:47

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II. Rondo. Allegro molto vivace

Track length6:31

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Paganini: Sonata in D major, MS112 / 2 (Centone di Sonate, Op.64, Letter A / 2)

Work length7:08

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Fabio Biondi (violin), Giangiacomo Pinardi (guitar)
Recorded: 27-29 June 2017
Recording Venue: Centro museístico La Beneficència, Valencia, Spain

I. Adagio cantabile

Track length2:49

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II. Rondoncino andantino - Tempo di polacca

Track length4:19

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Paganini: Centone di sonate, Op. 64, MS 112, Sonata No. 7 in F Major

Work length15:08

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Fabio Biondi (violin), Giangiacomo Pinardi (guitar)
Recorded: 27-29 June 2017
Recording Venue: Centro museístico La Beneficència, Valencia, Spain

I. Allegro giusto

Track length6:23

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II. Polacca. Andantino allegretto

Track length8:45

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Paganini: Sonata for Violin & Guitar in A Minor, Op. 3 No. 4, MS 27

Work length4:27

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Fabio Biondi (violin), Giangiacomo Pinardi (guitar)
Recorded: 27-29 June 2017
Recording Venue: Centro museístico La Beneficència, Valencia, Spain

I. Andante largo

Track length2:55

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II. Allegretto motteggiando

Track length1:32

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Fabio Biondi has chosen a selection of delightful virtuoso chamber music pieces by Niccolò Paganini to mark his tenth album for Glossa. Together with his long-term colleague from Europa Galante, the plucked-string specialist Giangiacomo Pinardi (here playing an original romantic guitar from c1825), Biondi delivers one of the most special Glossa albums of recent times. The works, composed between 1804 and c1828, are mainly two-movement sonatas contained in the Centone di sonate collection, although the album also includes the popular Sonata concertata in A major.

Recorded in Valencia by the engineer and producer Fabio Framba (another well-known component of Biondi’s recording setups), the booklet of this album includes a highly original essay signed by Pierre Élie Mamou, in which he looks into the Devil/God dichotomy as applied to the figure of Paganini by his own contemporaries. The graphic design for the CD takes its inspiration from this idea, for another typically Glossa look, listen and read experience.

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October 2018

Biondi brings his long experience in Baroque violin to these readings, radically different from the usual Romantically-inspired renditions of these sonatas…Biondi’s touch is lighter (his ornaments are balletic); his sound a clean bel canto. Expressive devices are subtler, too, while responsive to Paganini’s quixotic moods…Their approach is that of equal partners enjoying intimate chamber music (even if, occasionally, the guitar sounds a little shy in the balance).

Awards Issue 2018

There’s an extent to which all I need to say here is ‘Go and buy it’, because even before the first three bars are out you’ll be happy that you did…The first thing to say is that the instruments themselves feel absolutely spot-on…and are played with an effortlessly singing mellifluousness and nonchalant virtuosity…An indisputable cracker.

2nd November 2018

Recorded in Valencia in a seductively warm and open acoustic using the original manuscripts and roughly contemporary instruments – a 1767 Gagliano violin and an 1825 French guitar made by Mauchant Frères – Fabio Biondi and Giangiacomo Pinardi create the uncanny impression of two friends making music in the late evening for the sheer pleasure of it. Technically immaculate and musically exquisite, it is difficult to imagine this enchanting music better played or engineered.

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