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The ultimate violin virtuoso, Niccolò Paganini also wrote more than 100 pieces for guitar, including these Ghiribizzi (‘whims’). Composed for ‘a little girl in Naples’ who must have been both talented and eager to develop her technique, these whimsical works explore a wide range of musical styles idiomatic to the guitar. Many of the 43 short movements draw on themes by Rossini, Paisiello, Süssmayr, Mozart, Giuliani and, of course, Paganini himself. Praised by Les cahiers de la guitare as ‘inspired’ and Koelner Stadt Anzeiger as a ‘genius’, Denis Sungho Janssens made his 2005 Carnegie Hall début as a Rising Star of the European Concert Hall Organization.
Nicolo Paganini: Ghiribizzi, MS 43
No. 1 in A major: Allegretto
No. 2 in C major: Andantino
No. 3 in C major: Waltz
No. 4 in A major: Allegretto
No. 5 in D major: Moderato
No. 6 in G major: Andantino
No. 7 in E major: Waltz
No. 8 in C major: Andante
No. 9 in C major: Andantino
No. 10 in C major
No. 11 in A major: Allegretto
No. 12 in C major: Andante
No. 13 in C major: Allegro
No. 14 in C major: Allegro assai
No. 15 in G major: Allegro
No. 16 in G major: Larghetto (after In cor piu non mi sento from La Molinara by Paisiello)
No. 17 in D major: Andantino (after Le streghe from Il noce di Benevento by Sussmayr)
No. 18 in D minor: Andantino
No. 19 in G major: Corrente
No. 20 in C major: Andante (after La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni by Mozart)
No. 21 in A major: Allegretto
No. 22 in A major: Larghetto
No. 23 in A major
No. 24 in A major: Andante
No. 25 in C major: Andante
No. 26 in D major: Arietta
No. 27 in D major: Andantino
No. 28 in D major: Waltz
No. 29 in D major: March
No. 30 in D major: Allegretto
No. 31 in A major: Minuetto: Andante
No. 32 in A major: Allegretto
No. 33 in A major: Allegretto
No. 34 in A major: Waltz
No. 35 in D major: Waltz
No. 36 in C major
No. 37 in A major: Adagietto con espressione (after Rossini)
No. 38 in A major: Vivace
No. 39 in D major: Allegretto
No. 40 in A major: Andante
No. 41 in C major: Allegro
No. 42 in A major: Waltz
No. 43 in A minor: Andantino
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No. 1 in A major: Allegretto