Paganini: Centone di Sonate, Vol. 2: Sonatas for Violin and Guitar, Op. 64

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Catalogue No: 8553142
Label: Naxos
Series: Guitar Collections
Length: 72 minutes

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Paganini: Sonata No. 7

Work length18:12

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Moshe Hammer (violin), Norbert Kraft (guitar)
Recorded: 24-26 September 1994
Recording Venue: St. John Church, Newmarket, Canada

Allegro giusto

Track length9:57

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Polacca: Andantino allegretto

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Paganini: Sonata No. 8

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Moshe Hammer (violin), Norbert Kraft (guitar)
Recorded: 24-26 September 1994
Recording Venue: St. John Church, Newmarket, Canada

Andante cantabile

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Rondo: Allegretto

Track length5:17

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Paganini: Sonata No. 9

Work length10:32

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Moshe Hammer (violin), Norbert Kraft (guitar)
Recorded: 24-26 September 1994
Recording Venue: St. John Church, Newmarket, Canada

Allegro maestro, Tempo di Marcia

Track length5:40

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Tema: Andante placido con 3 Variazioni

Track length4:52

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Paganini: Sonata No. 10

Work length14:37

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Moshe Hammer (violin), Norbert Kraft (guitar)
Recorded: 24-26 September 1994
Recording Venue: St. John Church, Newmarket, Canada

Allegro risoluto

Track length8:58

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Rondo: Andantino vivace, Tempo di Pastorale

Track length5:39

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Paganini: Sonata No. 11

Work length11:30

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Moshe Hammer (violin), Norbert Kraft (guitar)
Recorded: 24-26 September 1994
Recording Venue: St. John Church, Newmarket, Canada

Cantabile, Andante appassionato con flessibilita

Track length6:19

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Tema: Allegro moderato con 2 Variazioni - Finale: Tempo di Valtz

Track length5:11

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Paganini: Sonata No. 12

Work length8:26

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Moshe Hammer (violin), Norbert Kraft (guitar)
Recorded: 24-26 September 1994
Recording Venue: St. John Church, Newmarket, Canada

Andante cantabile

Track length3:33

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Rondo: Allegretto

Track length4:53

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Played by Moshe Hammer and Norbert Kraft with debonair charm.

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The Centone di sonate (a 'hotchpotch of sonatas') consists of 18 'sonatas' which are really salon works with a variety of movements – none of them in sonata form. Whether Paganini, who wrote them sometime after 1828, intended these pieces for public performance or merely for the use of the then abundant amateur musicians isn't known. As usual in his works of this genre, it's the violin that hogs the limelight while the guitar remains a humble bag-carrier.
The guitar parts are indeed so simple that they would have been within the reach of any amateur who was capable of keeping his end up with another musician; Segovia considered them beneath his dignity and refused many invitations to play them with famous partners! Nothing is harder than to be 'simple': Mozart managed it, while at the same time being deceptively complex; Paganini did it at a far less sublime level, with sentimental, cheerful and pert tunes. Truth to tell, they aren't the kind of works which impel one to listen to them at one sitting except for the most devoted aficionado of Paganini's violinistic voice or of hearing the guitar in an unremittingly subservient but genuinely complementary role.
These splendid performances on modern instruments make no claim to 'authentic' status, but they're no less appealing for that. They squeeze every last drop from the music with ( inauthentically) full sound, and a Siamese-twin tightness of ensemble that was probably rare amongst those who played these works in Paganini's own time. In the end, these works have a charm that's hard for any but the most straitlaced to resist. It's unlikely that the Centone will ever be better played and/or recorded.

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