Goran Filipec – Paganini at the Piano (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:01 minutes | 881 MB | Genre: Classical
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For sure, the most famous borrowings from Paganini’s Caprices to have been re-written for piano are those by Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninov and Lutosławski – and generally they come only from the 24th Caprice – but countless other composers have had a go, to say nothing of the many arrangements for a thousand other instrumental combinations. Here, in the capable hands of Goran Filipec, recent winner of the Budapest Ferenc Liszt Society’s Grand Prix du Disque, we have two works inspired by Paganini and published between 1902 and 1914: variations, caprices, études, etc. written by Mark Hambourg, Ferruccio Busoni, Michael Zadora and Ignaz Friedman – all “virtuoso-composers” – and, closer to our times, music from the Croat composer Boris Papandopulo (born 1981), who has managed to develop an extraordinarily subtle and spiritual language, which pushes boldly at the limits of tonality. Delicious! And rest assured, it isn’t just the 24th Caprice which is put to work.
Tracklist:
01. Variations on a Theme by Paganini
02. An die Jugend, BV 254: IV. Introduzione e capriccio (Paganinesco)
03. 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 4 in C Minor (Arr. M. Zadora for Piano)
04. 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 19 in E-Flat Major (Arr. M. Zadora for Piano)
05. Studies on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 47b
06. 3 Capriccios After Paganini: No. 1, Corrente
07. 3 Capriccios After Paganini: No. 2, Moderato
08. 3 Capriccios After Paganini: No. 3, Ad libitum-Agitato
Personnel:
Goran Filipec, piano
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