Football fans, playalong a Paganini

Henry williams says:

July 11, 2021 at 12:00 pm

Great player.

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E says:

July 11, 2021 at 6:53 pm

And…so beautiful! Thanks for posting.
And Happy Birthday to all whose
birthday is July 11!

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Robert Holmén says:

July 12, 2021 at 1:19 am

Pretty good.

The pizzicato trill needs work.

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David K. Nelson says:

July 12, 2021 at 3:26 pm

For whatever reason I’ve never thought of Frank Peter Zimmermann as a fire-breathing Paganini player. I doubt if much else in his repertoire calls for that pizzicato trill! On balance it’s very nicely done.

There is a funny recording on the One-Eleven label of Ruggiero Ricci playing this “live” in, I think, Hong Kong. He announces “here is one for the Queen’s birthday” and launches in. The audience laughs on hearing the tune and, somewhat related to the recent topic on audience silence, either laughs at or applauds nearly every variation. I recall reading that Ricci developed his left hand pizzicato by reclining in bed as a boy and just picking out tunes with the left hand.

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Edgar Self says:

July 12, 2021 at 4:14 pm

Paganini’s “Nel cor piu” variations also have mean left-hand pizzicato trills, vide Vasa OPrihoda’s famous recordings, but even better Leonid Kogan’s spectacular You Tube video of the entire work uncut. I saw both of them play live.

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