Paganini: 43 Ghiribizzi for Guitar

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
March 21, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Niccolo Paganini
    • PERFORMER
      Giacomo Carletti
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 21, 2025
    • UPC
      5028421974170
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI97417
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1 in A Major: Allegretto

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    2. No. 2 in C Major: Andantino

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    3. No. 3 in C Major: Waltz

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    4. No. 4 in A Major: Allegretto

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    5. No. 5 in D Major: Moderato

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    6. No. 6 in G Major: Andantino

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    7. No. 7 in E Major: Waltz

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    8. No. 8 in C Major: Andante

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    9. No. 9 in C Major: Andantino

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    10. No. 10 in C Major

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    11. No. 11 in A Major: Allegretto

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    12. No. 12 in C Major: Andante

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    13. No. 13 in C Major: Allegro

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    14. No. 14 in C Major: Allegro assai

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    15. No. 15 in G Major: Allegro

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    16. No. 16 in G Major: Larghetto (after In cor più non mi sento from La Molinara by Paisiello)

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    17. No. 17 in D Major: Andantino (after Le streghe from Il noce di Benevento by Sussmayr)

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    18. No. 18 in D Minor: Andantino

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    19. No. 19 in G Major: Corrente

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    20. No. 20 in C Major: Andante (after La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni by Mozart)

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    21. No. 21 in A Major: Allegretto

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    22. No. 22 in A Major: Larghetto

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    23. No. 23 in A Major

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    24. No. 24 in A Major: Andante

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    25. No. 25 in C Major: Andante

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    26. No. 26 in D Major: Arietta

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    27. No. 27 in D Major: Andantino

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    28. No. 28 in D Major: Waltz

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    29. No. 29 in D Major: March

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    30. No. 30 in D Major: Allegretto

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    31. No. 31 in A Major: Minuetto: Andante

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    32. No. 32 in A Major: Allegretto

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    33. No. 33 in A Major: Allegretto

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    34. No. 34 in A Major: Waltz

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    35. No. 35 in D Major: Waltz

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    36. No. 36 in C Major

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    37. No. 37 in A Major: Adagietto con espressione (after Rossini)

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    38. No. 38 in A Major: Vivace

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    39. No. 39 in D Major: Allegretto

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    40. No. 40 in A Major: Andante

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    41. No. 41 in C Major: Allegro

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    42. No. 42 in A Major: Waltz

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti

    43. No. 43 in A Minor: Andantino

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Giacomo Carletti


A new recording of Paganini's eccentric 'diary of invention' for guitar by a young Italian musician with a fast-growing reputation in both rock and classical genres. Giacomo Carletti took up the guitar at the age of 13, initially playing electric. Impressed by his talent, the composer Edoardo Catemario encouraged Carletti to take up the classical guitar. He now makes his career as a busy recitalist with the classical instrument while keeping up his pop and rock connections by playing electric guitar in several bands. As Carletti remarks in his booklet essay for his debut album on Brilliant Classics, the 43 Ghiribizzi by Paganini stand as a testament to his musical ingenuity and sense of fun. They present a showcase for his technical prowess but also reveal a lighter side to the virtuoso often caricatured as a dark and forbidding figure. The term Ghiribizzo is defined in Italian as an 'Idea bizzarra, capriccio improvviso'. Many less than a minute long, the 43 sketches sometimes start and stop abruptly; some are hardly more than tunes, others are eccentric fantasies. Many of them are based on existing material - not only the Mozart aria 'La ci darem la mano' from Don Giovanni, which Paganini acknowledges in the score, but other tunes he picked up on the way, popular and folkloristic, often anonymous in origin. No.37 of the collection has an esspecially rich back-story: a fond musical memory of Paganini's meeting with Rossini in Naples, in 1820. The piece, divided into two parts, bears Rossini's name at the bottom of the first 16 bars, and Paganini's at the bottom of the next 16, perhaps as a recollection of a game where they improvised together. 'in recording the Ghiribizzi,' says Carletti, 'I wanted to bring out the eccentric and eclectic character of the composer. I try to imagine Paganini as a rock virtuoso of nowadays and treat his music accordingly.' - Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) is perhaps best known for his 24 Caprices for Solo Violin which granted him the fame as the diabolical virtuoso of his age. However, his contributions to the guitar world are equally fascinating, particularly his 43 Ghiribizzi. - In the dictionary of the Italian language the word Ghiribizzo is described as follows: "Idea bizzarra, capriccio improvviso" (bizarre idea, capricious improvisation). The artist Giacomo Carletti about the recording: "Bearing this precise and unequivocal definition in mind, in recording the 43 Ghiribizzi for guitar I wanted to bring out the eccentric and eclectic character of the composer. I try to imagine Paganini as a present day rock virtuoso and treat his music accordingly. Every rhythmical variation, every single notation has been studied, evaluated and decided in the awareness of wanting to make this integral as realistic as possible to what could have been a performance by Paganini himself. On this album you can hear hilarious tunes alternating, even in the same piece, with thoughtful, profound parts. Although there is no evidence of concerts held by the Italian maestro with the guitar, it is well known that Paganini studied and knew how to play the guitar with great mastery." - Giacomo Carletti plays in a wide variety of genres and styles, alternating performances in rock and pop bands with classical guitar solo and chamber concerts.