Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840): Capricen op.1 Nr.1-24 für Violine solo

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  • Artist: Tanja Becker-Bender, Violine solo
  • Label: Hyperion , DDD, 2008
  • Order number: 3066652
  • Release date: 20.3.2009
  1. 1 No. 1 in E major. Andante Start
  2. 2 No. 2 in B minor. Moderato Start
  3. 3 No. 3 in E minor. Sostenuto - Presto Start
  4. 4 No. 4 in C minor. Maestoso Start
  5. 5 No. 5 in A minor. Agitato Start
  6. 6 No. 6 in G minor. [Adagio] Start
  7. 7 No. 7 in A minor. Posato Start
  8. 8 No. 8 in E flat major. Maestoso Start
  9. 9 No. 9 in E major. Allegretto Start
  10. 10 No. 10 in G minor. Vivace Start
  11. 11 No. 11 in C major. Andante - Presto Start
  12. 12 No. 12 in A flat major. Allegro Start
  13. 13 No. 13 in B flat major. Allegro Start
  14. 14 No. 14 in E flat major. Moderato Start
  15. 15 No. 15 in E minor. Posato Start
  16. 16 No. 16 in G minor. Presto Start
  17. 17 No. 17 in E flat major. Sostenuto - Andante Start
  18. 18 No. 18 in C major. Corrente: Allegro Start
  19. 19 No. 19 in E flat major. Lento - Allegro assai Start
  20. 20 No. 20 in D major. Allegretto Start
  21. 21 No. 21 in A major. Amoroso Start
  22. 22 No. 22 in F major. Marcato Start
  23. 23 No. 23 in E flat major. Posato Start
  24. 24 No. 24 in A minor. Tema con variazioni: Quasi presto Start

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Von Unspielbarkeit keine Spur
Er sei vom Teufel getrieben, hieß es, und Frauen seien in Ohnmacht gefallen. Goethe schrieb gar, er habe eine »Flammen- und Wolkensäule« gesehen. Die Rede ist von Nicolò Paganini (1782–1840). Seinen 24 Capricen op. 1 haftete – angesichts der für das Spiel nötigen Fingerfertigkeit – unter Zeitgenossen der Ruf der Unspielbarkeit an. Die junge deutsche Geigerin Tanja Becker-Bender stellt sich auf ihrer Debüt-CD für Hyperion ganz bewusst dieser Herausforderung. Und reüssiert: Sie lotet das gesamte emotionale Spektrum aus, von technischer Anstrengung keine Spur, dafür viel Schwermut und Lebensfreude, kraftvolles Selbstbewusstsein und spritziger Witz.

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Paganini’s 24 Caprices Op 1 were considered simply unplayable by most contemporary violinists, but the composer himself bestrode their difficulties with contemptuous ease. A forerunner and inspirer of his younger contemporaries Chopin, Liszt and Berlioz, Paganini was the archetype of the virtuoso performer. His technique was so phenomenal, and his saturnine presence so magnetic, that he was popularly believed to be in league with the Devil. He communicated a new vision of what the violin could achieve.

Virtuoso violinists are plentiful these days, but the challenges posed by the Caprices are still daunting and it is a rare performer who can achieve such insouciant brilliance in this repertoire as the young German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender has in her debut recording for Hyperion.

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'This superb new recording … These are marvellous performances, full of freshness and vitality, technically accomplished yet spontaneous sounding and highly expressive … Becker-Bender's imagination really shines through in those of a more picturesque nature … Another exceptional release from Hyperion' (International Record Review)

'If anyone is ever likely to convince you that there is more to Paganini's music than Rossini-in-technical overdrive melodramatics, it is Tanja Becker-Bender … Becker-Bender gives the Italian's coruscating roulades more room to breathe, characterising each caprice as though it was microcosmic masterpiece of musical expression' (BBC Music Magazine)

'[An] elegant album.. Hewitt's sensitive clarity of line propels the light figures forward while retaining the charm of musical personality… To paraphrase G. B. Shaw, happy is the pianist whose Haydn is his profession' (Audiophile Audition, USA)

Press comments

N. Hornig in FonoForum 07 / 09: "Mit welcher geigerischen und musikalischen Kompetenz sich Tanja Becker-Bender dieser Herausforderung stellt, ist schlicht bewundernswert. In dieser blitzsauber intonierten Interpretation drängt sich der technisch-geigerische Aspekt nie in den Vordergrund, hier geht es nicht um die Zurschaustellung geigerischer Akrobatik. Hier geht es um die Musik, nur ganz wenige Einspielungen der Capricen haben einen derartigen musikalischen Tiefgang. Diese Aufnahme gewinnt mit jedem erneuten Hören."

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