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Paganini caprice 7
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6 minutes, 33 seconds long
Published 23 December, 2009
Keywords: Jack Glatzer This 7th caprice reminds me in many ways of the 15th caprice, it too begins with a very beautiful and sad melody in octaves. But here there is an interruption, five snapping notes on the lower string, as if the devil mocks Paganini, as if he interrupts Paganini's great sadness. [Music] The same melody is then repeated an octave higher and its very difficult to play right there at the end of the finger boards in octaves which are so demanding on intonation. Noone ever demanded that before Paganini. [Music] And then suddenly we might almost say all hell breaks loose, the bow does the fastest flying staccato that can be imagined. And then we have three string chords, brazen, rather metallic terrible chords, as if the devil interrupts Paganini's freedom and demands his price for the Faustian pact perhaps. [Music] The three string chords take off in the middle and take over the music and there is there is almost a funeral march as if the devil threatens to take Paganini away to hell. And then almost comically Paganini returns with his incredible virtuoso strokes, the flying staccato and then I like to bring in at the end the ricochet stroke. This might be one of the works that Heinrich Heine the great German poet described so beautifully 'I saw long, hairy hands moving now and then on the strings of the violin, which Paganini played, often guiding his hand, while a floating applauding laugh accompanied the tones which welled forth more painfully and if bleeding from the violin.' [Music]
