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Paganini caprice 1
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3 minutes, 52 seconds long
Published 25 December, 2009
Keywords: Jack Glatzer The first caprice is elegant and light, anything but demonic and sombre in character. In fact its will of the wisp and you can almost compare it to some of those light delightful movements that you hear of Mendelson or even of Chopin. It uses a technical device that was known for many many years, we find it in Bach and in Vivaldi and Locatelli. What it is is bariolage, and it's a way of playing chords not all of the notes played together with the bow, but very quickly weaving the bow back and forth from one string to the other creating a web of effects. [Music] And because of the resonance of open strings and of harmonics there's a lovely scintillating quality to this bariolage. So that if you were to stop the sound at any give moment you would hear much more than one or two sounds, you might even hear five or six sounds at one, a lovely web of sounds and Paganini really explores this more wonderfully than any composer. And in this caprice he varies the bariolage by one other device and that's tumbling spiccato third passages. And the two of these together form a delightful harmony of expression. [Music] Chopin heard Paganini play in Warsaw and Chopin after the concert seemed to have been speechless. In fact his friends began to worry about him and finally he said only three words 'Paganini is perfection'. [Music]
