Paganini: Sonata Concertata / Cantabile E Valtz / 60 Variations On Barucaba

Featuring

Luigi Alberto Bianchi
Maurizio Preda
Niccolò Paganini

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Instruments

Luigi Alberto Bianchi, the violinist, currently plays a 1620 violin by Giovanni Paolo Maggini from the Brescia school, which was once part of the Princes of Saxonia's collection.

Compositional Technique

In the Variations on Barucabà, Paganini frequently changes keys, using ones unusual for the violin and guitar like F sharp major, C sharp major, A flat major, and D flat major.

Compositional Technique

The Variations on Barucabà by Paganini feature sixty variations divided into three groups, with the theme restated in a new key at the beginning of each group.

Composer Biography

Nicolò Paganini, the composer, gave violin lessons and musical training to Camillo Sivori, who later became a popular violinist and composer and presented himself as Paganini's only legitimate pupil.

Composition History

Paganini dedicated the Variations on Barucabà to his friend Luigi Guglielmo Germi, an amateur player, with the simple intention of delighting his evenings.

Composition History

Paganini's Sonata Concertata MS 2 for guitar and violin is unique in his chamber music for achieving a perfect musical balance between the two instruments.

Performer Biography

Luigi Alberto Bianchi, the violinist on this album, had his precious Amati viola stolen in 1980 and later his 1716 Colossus Stradivarius violin stolen in 1998.