Paganini: Quartets for Strings and Guitar Nos. 1, 2 & 9 / Paganini Ensemble Vienna

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Label
Dynamic
Release Date
September 17, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PAGANINI, NICOLO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Paganini Ensemble Vienna
    • PERFORMER
      PAGANINI ENSEMBLE VIENNA
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 17, 2021
    • UPC
      8007144079123
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      DYN-CDS7912
    • LABEL
      Dynamic
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Introduzione: Andante marcato - Vivace

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Ensemble: Paganini Ensemble Vienna

    2. II. Minuetto alla marsigliese: Andantino

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Ensemble: Paganini Ensemble Vienna

    3. III. Tema con variazione: Adagietto cantabile

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Ensemble: Paganini Ensemble Vienna

    4. I. Moderato

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Ensemble: Paganini Ensemble Vienna

    5. II. Minuetto: Andante

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Ensemble: Paganini Ensemble Vienna

    6. III. Larghetto in F Major

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Ensemble: Paganini Ensemble Vienna

    7. IV. Rondo: Allegretto

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Ensemble: Paganini Ensemble Vienna

    8. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Ensemble: Paganini Ensemble Vienna

    9. II. Minuetto alla Valtz: Allegretto mosso

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Ensemble: Paganini Ensemble Vienna

    10. III. Adagio sostenuto appasionatamente

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Ensemble: Paganini Ensemble Vienna

    11. IV. Finale: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Ensemble: Paganini Ensemble Vienna


Nicolò Paganini’s Quartets for Strings and Guitar are among his finest chamber compositions. The First Guitar Quartet was a wedding gift from Paganini to his younger sister; and both this and the Second Quartet share neo-classical poise with warmly expressive romantic lyricism. The Ninth Quartet features sweet and melancholy moods containing some of Paganini’s most disarmingly simple melodies, and as the composer himself stated, ‘a very fanciful minuet and a moving trio’. The "Paganini Ensemble Vienna" has set its goal high in presenting this rarely played program which offers unique insight into Paganini’s extensive oeuvre for the violin, guitar, viola, and violoncello. These works offer not only technical virtuosity and moments of tremendous passion, but also passages expressing great tenderness, suffering, and joy. Indeed, these emotional elements are essential to understanding the music of Nicolo Paganini, who once said “We must strongly feel to make others feel.”