Paganini Ensemble Vienna

Paganini Ensemble Vienna – Paganini: Quartets for Strings & Guitar Nos. 7, 14 & 15 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:52 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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Niccolò Paganini’s Quartets for Strings and Guitar offer some of the best examples of his inexhaustible creativity, including ideas and themes that were later included in his more famous concertos. The Seventh Quartet combines mastery of form with endless melodic inventiveness, while the Fourteenth is more virtuosic, allowing its dedicatee to shine as a violinist with splendid effectiveness. The dark colour of the viola gives unique timbre to the Fifteenth Quartet which, with its moments of operatic expressiveness, is outstanding in Paganini’s chamber music output. Volume 1 of this edition (CDS7912) was considered “first-rate” in every regard by the American Record Guide.
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Paganini Ensemble Vienna – Quartets for Strings and Guitar Nos. 5, 4 & 10 (Instrumental) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:55 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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Many Paganini scholars consider the quartets with guitar to be among his finest chamber works. The care Paganini took in their composition is documented in numerous letters asking the opinion of his friend Luigi Germi, to whom Quartet No. 10 is dedicated. The Quartets, Op. 4 and Op. 5 with their almost playful eccentricities and freedoms show the composer trying out a variety of forms and variations on convention, all with his typically virtuoso and lyrical touch. Volume 2 of this edition (CDS7938) was admired for its ‘crisp and elegant sensibility’ in BBC Music Magazine.
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Paganini Ensemble Vienna – Paganini: Quartets for Strings & Guitar Nos. 1, 2 & 9 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:38 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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Nicolo Paganini’s Quartets for Strings and Guitar are among his finest chamber compositions. The First Guitar Quartet was a wedding gift from Paganini to his younger sister; and both this and the Second Quartet share neo-classical poise with warmly expressive romantic lyricism. The Ninth Quartet features sweet and melancholy moods containing some of Paganini’s most disarmingly simple melodies, and as the composer himself stated, ‘a very fanciful minuet and a moving trio’.

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