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Niccolo Paganini
Paganini: 24 Caprices
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 1 in E Major
2. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 2 in B Minor
3. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 3 in E Minor
4. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 4 in C Minor
5. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 5 in A Minor
6. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 6 in G Minor
7. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 7 in A Minor
8. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 8 in E-flat Major
9. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 9 in E Major
10. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 10 in G Minor
11. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 11 in C Major
12. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 12 in A-Flat Major
13. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 13 in B-Flat Major
14. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 14 in E-Flat Major
15. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 15 in E Minor
16. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 16 in G Minor
17. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 17 in E-Flat Major
18. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 18 in C Major
19. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 19 in E-flat Major
20. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 20 in D Major
21. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 21 in A Major
22. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 22 in F Major
23. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 23 in E-Flat Major
24. Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 24 in A Minor

"A dedicated proponent of new music ... a vivid, high voltage performance." -- Los Angeles Times Eliot Fisk performs his own virtuoso arrangements of the Paganini Caprices with beauty and passion.

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All Artists: Niccolo Paganini
Title: Paganini: 24 Caprices
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Nimbus Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 7/8/2008
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Instruments, Strings
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 710357250521, 0710357250521

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"A dedicated proponent of new music ... a vivid, high voltage performance." -- Los Angeles Times Eliot Fisk performs his own virtuoso arrangements of the Paganini Caprices with beauty and passion.

CD Reviews

Not What One Expects From Such Pretense

Colton Williams | Oklahoma City, OK | 03/30/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Eliot Fisk is lauded as a stunningly proficient virtuoso, capable of cunning special effects and comfortable playing at great speeds. He has taught some of the great modern guitarists and holds a place of singularity amongst his contemporaries - that of being a recognized name in instrumental music. He possesses great facility and can exploit his natural manual dexterity to play great works, such as these caprices, written for other instruments. On this record, Fisk clings to the techniques and sounds his guitar in a close approximation of the violin. That was a good idea. Stick with what works - these are violin pieces. Adding too much polyphony might obstruct the frantic beauty of Paganini's work. Yet as I listen to these pieces, each one progressively worse than the last, I become saddened by the thoughts this music inspires in me: "I can do this better"; "this guy plays like crap"; that sort of thing. I realized that a full throating of my most crass and insulting opinions is the only due of this recording. By the time I arrived at the godly, beautiful, agonizingly touching Moto Perpetuo (11), anger replaced uncertainty at what I was hearing. I dislike airing such negative feelings for anyone to see, but SHEEEEESH!! This is true-blue garbage. NO finesse. NO sustainable technique. NO dynamics. NO MUSICALLITY. This is not instrumentation that affects the soul. This is utterly cerebral ambedexterity. And this man, Eliot Fisk, acted as pedagogue to Marco Tamayo?!? Friends, listen to Tamayo's rendition of the 'Moto. Everyone in the room will cry. It is beautiful. OK, OK, slow down. Maybe this is just a bad recording of an otherwise fantastic musician. Let's go investigate....does he have any videos? STOP RIGHT THERE. Fisk is actually WORSE "in person". Wonky. That is a word I am happy to attribute. His playing is, yep, actually CRISPY. Crisped. Chunked-off, dripping with grease, flat on a napkin. Avoid this record."