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Paganini caprice 8
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7 minutes, 32 seconds long
Published 25 December, 2009
Keywords: Jack Glatzer [Music] This 8th caprice begins with a majestic and rather sombre fanfare in octaves on the lower two strings. Interspersed we have Paganini double trills, a very difficult technique which we'll see in several other of the caprice's as well. And then after that a series of instruments, bagpipe like sounds and flutes, and the bagpipes are made by moving the fingers on one string and on the other droning without moving a finger or even playing an open string, provides a very beautiful imitation of the bagpipe. [Music] And we'll hear that as well in some of the other caprice's. And then very light boing on the fingerboard again gives you the feeling of flutes. [Music] There is a Listian feeling to me in much of this caprice because of its dark romantic quality, and the interesting chromatic modulation's throughout. And List himself was bewildered by the experience of Paganini in Paris in 1830. In fact it was a fortunate thing for List because he was so depressed he was ready to give up his musical career, and this gave him a new life and a new direction, and he followed certainly in the footsteps of the great Niccolo Paganini. In fact it's fascinating to think that the first published work of List was the transcendental etudes on Paganini. And List writes very well on Paganini, first he says 'What a man! What a violin! What an artist! What suffering, what anguish, what torture those four strings can express.' And then he describes very well the impression that Paganini made on the bewildered public in Paris in 1830. The excitement he caused was so unusual, the magic that he practised upon the fantasy of his hearers so powerful that they could not satisfy themselves with a natural explanation. All tales of witches and ghost stories came into their minds, they tried to explain the wonder of his playing from out of his past, the fathom, the marvel of his genius in a super-normal way. They even whispered that he had dedicated his soul to the evil one and that the fourth string of his violin was made of his wife's intestines which he himself had cut out. [Music]
