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Paganini Variations

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Paganini Variations

Two sets of studies for piano in variation form by Johannes Brahms, Op. 35, composed in 1866, on a theme in A minor from from the 19th-century virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini's violin capricci (studies).

Two other well-known works – Sergei Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini and Witold Lutosławski's Variations on a Theme of Paganini – use the same theme as Brahm's work and are frequently referred to as Paganini Variations.



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Born in London in 1977, Freddy came to national prominence in 1992 when he won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, playing Rachmaninov's Paganini Variations.
There's more Argerich later in the set, too, combining with Capuçon in a magnificently intense performance of Bartók's First Violin Sonata, and playing Ravel's Mother Goose suite and Lutoslawski's Paganini Variations.
A quick listen to Rubinstein doing the Paganini Variations close to fifty years ago on an RCA Living Stereo disc makes one wonder just how far we've advanced in sound recording, if at all.
 
 
 
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