{"product_id":"ricci-paganini-24-caprices-1950-pacm118","title":"RICCI Paganini: 24 Caprices (1950) - PACM118","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ePAGANINI \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e24 Caprices, Op. 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recordings, 1950\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 74:02\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eRuggiero Ricci\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, violin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACM118.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nRuggiero Ricci’s July 1950 Geneva recordings of the 24 Caprices by Paganini\nwere originally issued on two Decca LPs in the following summer of 1951 to\ngreat acclaim in \u003cem\u003eThe Gramophone\u003c\/em\u003e. Although he would return to them\nfor a stereo re-recording a decade later, in this Ambient Stereo XR\nremastering we can appreciate anew his wonderful artistry in its original\nouting, dusting off the violin tone and bringing new sparkle and depth to\nplaying which had brought such delight in some 72 years ago:\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\nThe twenty-four caprices of Paganini are the only work which that legendary\nand historic figure allowed to be published in his lifetime. His concertos\nhe kept for his own public use until after his death, lest his fame should\nbe tarnished by another's playing of them. These caprices extend the\nvirtuoso technique of the violin beyond anything known or dreamed of up to\nPaganini's day, and even now there is precious little a violinist can\nlegitimately do with bow and fingers and strings that is not already in\nhere. One suitably admires the fireworks. What is astonishing perhaps that\nlistening to these twelve pieces in two hearings, one admires the music\nalso. Paganini the player lived longer than mortal span, for the satanic\nand other legends whispered about him persisted after his death. But\nPaganini the composer is curiously alive 110 years after that death. Apart\nfrom its great technical interest, this music has quality, it has variety\nand imagination, and it has at times considerable emotional power. Its\noriginality is beyond dispute. The caprices have gripped more than one\ncomposer: Schumann and Liszt both made piano transcriptions of them, and\nthere are the famous variations by Brahms for piano (two books) and\nRachmaninov for piano and orchestra.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\nSomething of what was Paganini's living magic is conveyed to us through\nthis music as performed here by Ruggiero Ricci. His attack and bite are\nexceptionally commanding without being unpleasantly self-asserting. The\nonly exception I can find to take with his powerful technique is a slight\ntendency to a wavering of tone in slow double-stopped passages, noticeable\nin Nos. 3, 4 and 8, and giving a wailing quality (possibly partly intended)\nto No. 6. Sgr. Ricci brings out the best qualities of the music, and\ncertainly No. 6 is exceptional in its moodiness. No. 7 is also remarkable;\nso is the hunting-call theme of No. 9, while No. 10 has tension and a\nsplendid ending which the player properly builds up. There is as well a\nbrilliant glitter to this performance (No. 7 is the best example), which\ncan be shadowed down to tenderness in No. 11. The recording is excellent,\nand gives a good effect of the violinist's being in the room; there are few\nextraneous noises, and the whole disc is level and smooth in its flow of\ntone.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\nH.F., \u003ci\u003eThe Gramophone\u003c\/i\u003e, April 1951\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003eThe first twelve of Paganini's remarkable corpus of Twenty-four Caprices\nwere issued on Decca LK4025 with Ricci playing, and were reviewed by the\npresent writer in some detail in The Gramophone of April 1951 (page 249).\nThere is little need for adding to the high commendation printed there of\nthis quite outstanding achievement of performance and recording, except\nthat I wish to set down my pleasure and my equal surprise that the second\ntwo sides are as good and even as the first: if anything, they are better.\nThe lifelike effect of the player’s being in the room compares favourably\nwith any recording of solo unaccompanied violin I have heard. Being placed\nat the optimum distance from the microphone, the player is heard to make\nthese extra sounds of a non-musical kind inseparable from virtuoso\nviolin-playing only to a convincing and not a distressing degree. The discs\nare easy to reproduce and take plenty of amplification, though they could\nbe no less effective in small rooms. And what control Ruggiero Ricci has!\nThat dancing \u003cem\u003espiccato\u003c\/em\u003e that iron-fingered in-tune-ness! The\nmasterly technique is at the disposal of a quick understanding of the\nmusical content, and I could not help feeling that Ricci enjoys the music,\nas music, as much as I do. A few special points may be noted—fire in No.\n13, glitter in No. 14, the attack and the octaves in No. 15; No. 16 is\nhighly exciting, and No, 18, with its trumpet call followed by chatter,\nshows wide range of tone. The antiphonal No. 19 has some lovely long notes\namong its quick ones, and No. 20, with its drone, is sweet to the ear. No.\n21 is romantic with its perfectly hit sixths and tenths and No. 22 is\nwhimsical and charming. The famous theme and its variations of No. 24 is\nperhaps the highlight of the whole issue. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003eH.F., \u003ci\u003eThe Gramophone\u003c\/i\u003e, August 1951\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePAGANINI  \u003c\/b\u003eCaprices, Op. 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Caprice No. 1 in E Major,  'L'Arpeggio': Andante  (1:36)\u003cbr\u003e2. Caprice No. 2 in B Minor: Moderato  (2:55)\u003cbr\u003e3. Caprice No. 3 in E Minor: Sostenuto - Presto - Sostenuto  (2:55)\u003cbr\u003e4. Caprice No. 4 in C Minor: Maestoso  (6:00)\u003cbr\u003e5. Caprice No. 5 in A Minor: Agitato  (2:15)\u003cbr\u003e6. Caprice No. 6 in G Minor, 'The Trill': Lento  (4:55)\u003cbr\u003e7. Caprice No. 7 in A Minor: Posato  (3:09)\u003cbr\u003e8. Caprice No. 8 in E-Flat Major: Maestoso  (2:33)\u003cbr\u003e9. Caprice No. 9 in E Major, 'La chasse': Allegretto  (2:52)\u003cbr\u003e10. Caprice No. 10 in G Minor: Vivace  (2:01)\u003cbr\u003e11. Caprice No. 11 in C Major: Andante - Presto - Andante  (4:09)\u003cbr\u003e12. Caprice No. 12 in A-Flat Major: Allegro  (2:37)\u003cbr\u003e13. Caprice No. 13 in B flat Major, 'Devil's Laughter': Allegro  (2:36)\u003cbr\u003e14. Caprice No. 14 in E-Flat Major: Moderato  (1:31)\u003cbr\u003e15. Caprice No. 15 in E Minor: Posato  (2:39)\u003cbr\u003e16. Caprice No. 16 in G Minor: Presto  (1:08)\u003cbr\u003e17. Caprice No. 17 in E flat Major: Sostenuto - Andante  (3:02)\u003cbr\u003e18. Caprice No. 18 in C Major: Corrente - Allegro  (2:14)\u003cbr\u003e19. Caprice No. 19 in E-Flat Major: Lento - Allegro Assai  (2:44)\u003cbr\u003e20. Caprice No. 20 in D Major: Allegretto  (3:52)\u003cbr\u003e21. Caprice No. 21 in A Major: Amoroso - Presto  (3:13)\u003cbr\u003e22. Caprice No. 22 in F Major: Marcato  (2:51)\u003cbr\u003e23. Caprice No. 23 in E-Flat Major: Posato  (4:11)\u003cbr\u003e24. 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