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Paganini caprice 17
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5 minutes, 58 seconds long
Published 2 January, 2010
Keywords: Jack Glatzer Number 17 begins with a great fanfare. [Music] We really feel that we are going to hear something of great significance here, something like a movement of a Beethoven sonata or so, but what happens afterwards is a silly conversation between a female voice and a male. This is all politically incorrect of course, because the upper voice is represented being a little bit irritating, too many notes, too fast and the low notes are rather grumpy on the bottom two strings. [Music] The middle section provides a contrast to the silliness and brightness of the conversation, it's a rather diabolic dance darker colours and this is a technique, very very difficult called fingered octaves. [Music] The first and fourth finger is the usual way of playing the octave but if you can imagine the first and third stretched very far away and then the second and fourth stretched even further then you have the technique of the fingered octaves. So that there's much greater velocity that the fingers can maintain this way and they can change notes without sliding but by fingering and this gives the possibility of something as wild and bizarre as the demonic dance in the middle of the 17th caprice, but as a cost and I think the cost is many years of a violinists life. [Music]
