Paganini: Complete Quartets for String Trio and Guitar Vol. 1

Featuring

Alberto Mesirca
Daniel Rowland
Vladimir Mendelssohn
Maja Bogdanović
Răzvan Popovici
Joel Waterman

Niccolò Paganini

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Paganini's quartets, while structurally different from his North-European contemporaries, express a typically Italian taste, favoring operatic cantability and timbre over counterpoint and polyphony.

Recording & Production

This recording is dedicated to Vladimir Mendelssohn, who passed away in 2021, and is almost certainly his last studio recording.

Compositional Technique

Paganini sometimes used unusual tunings for the guitar in his quartets and explored the full range of instruments, giving them soloistic roles rather than simple accompaniment.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Paganini's later quartets, unlike earlier ones dedicated to amateurs, challenged performers with a higher technical and expressive level, closer to his own virtuosity.

Performer Biography

Vladimir Mendelssohn, a Romanian composer, violist, and professor, was the mentor for this recording project and is featured as a virtuoso violist on several tracks.

Composer Biography

Nicolò Paganini, the composer, dedicated several of his quartets to his friend Luigi Guglielmo Germi, a lawyer and violinist from Genoa.

Recording & Production

This album is the first volume of a complete recording of Nicolò Paganini's 15 Quartets for String Trio and Guitar, with a second release planned for the remaining works.