Browse: Paganini - Caprice for solo violin, Op. 1 No. 16 in G minor

…Ehnes has returned to these coruscating 'finger-breakers' (as Ricci once described them), playing with the same glowing tonal finesse as before, but with a new lyrical intensity… Beguilingly... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2009 More…

No matter how fast the notes are flying or how awkward the composer’s finger-crippling combinations of sustained phrasing and fluttering accompaniment, Pine sustains an extraordinary degree of... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[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…

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…

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…

Sublimely controlled, Barenboim throws down the expressive gauntlet with playing as subtle as it is high-voltage and apparently – paradoxically – on the edge of reason. Underpinning the whole... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 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…