Top 10 Hardest Paganini Pieces for the Violin

Caleb Hu
Caleb Hu
23.1 هزار بار بازدید - 2 سال پیش - Happy Thanksgiving! Not that Paganini
Happy Thanksgiving! Not that Paganini and Thanksgiving have much to do with each other; his connotations with the Devil and his birthdate of October 27 peg him as more of a Halloween kind of guy, but nevertheless I'm giving Paganini the spotlight right now.

Paganini essentially invented virtuoso playing—not that there wasn't any virtuoso playing before Paganini, but Paganini expanded the technique toolbox into a toolshed. He was highly influenced by Locatelli and Duranowski, neither of which are well-recorded today, but they lay the foundation for Paganini's rocketlike ascension to virtuoso glory.

Among Paganini's most difficult technical stumbling blocks include extended left-hand pizzicato passages, extended artificial harmonic passages, extended tremolo passages, and extensive use of double, triple, and even quadruple stops. Musically, Paganini was not as adventurous as his pianistic counterpart Liszt would become. His large-scale writing (in concertos, sonatas, etc.) stay firmly within Classical tradition and his orchestral writing can even be said to be dull in parts. However, it is his downright miraculous expansion of violin technique that continues to wow listeners today.

10. Caprice No.1
0:00 Itzhak Perlman
0:19 Leonidas Kavakos

9. Carnival of Venice
0:49 Stefan Milenkovich
1:20 Salvatore Accardo

8. Caprice No.6
1:52 Tibor Kováč

7. Violin Concerto No.2
2:35 Yehudi Menuhin
3:19 Ruggiero Ricci

6.  Caprice No.8
4:23 Ilya Gringolts

5. Variations on "I palpiti"
5:06 Roman Kim
6:14 Roman Kim

4. Caprice No.4
6:51 Ilya Gringolts

3. Violin Concerto No.1
7:32 Leonid Kogan
8:15 Hilary Hahn

2. Variations on "Nel cor più non mi sento"
9:05 Dmitri Makhtin
9:40 Yehudi Menuhin

1. Variations on "God Save the King"
10:18 Roman Kim
11:08 Roman Kim

Honorable mentions: Le Streghe, Violin Concerto No.3, Violin Concerto No.4, Moses Fantasy

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