Paganiniana

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Today we’ll listen to variations on themes by the Italian violin
virtuoso Niccolo Paganini. by Brahms, Liszt, Lutoslawski, and more. 
We’ll also hear a few other examples of composers paying tribute to one
another, like Ravel’s "Le Tombeau de Couperin" and one of Charles
Avison’s concerti grossi based on music by Domenico Scarlatti. 

Playlist:
3:02 pm
  • The Silken Ladder: Overture
  • Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
  • Ensemble: National Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
  • CD/Album: Rossini: 14 Overtures
  • Record co./Cat #: London 443850
3:09 pm
  • Symphony #73 "La Chasse" in D , HOB 1/73 ("The Hunt")
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Ensemble: Philharmonia Hungarica
  • Conductor: Antal Dorati
  • CD/Album: Haydn: The Symphonies
  • Record co./Cat #: London 448531
3:35 pm
  • Variations on a Theme by Paganini in a , Op. 35
  • Composer: Johannes Brahms
  • Soloists: Lilya Zilberstein, piano
  • CD/Album: Brahms: Paganini-Variationen - Intermezzi Op. 117
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 431123
4:07 pm
  • Concert de Trompettes
  • Composer: Michel Richard Delalande
  • Ensemble: Simphonie du Marais
  • Conductor: Hugo Reyne
  • CD/Album: Delalande / Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy
  • Record co./Cat #: Harmonia Mundi 901337
4:16 pm
  • Czech Suite
  • Composer: Antonin Dvorak
  • Ensemble: North German Radio Symphony
  • Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
  • CD/Album: Brahms - Dvorak
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 437506
4:40 pm
  • Paganini Etude #1
  • Composer: Franz Liszt
  • Soloists: Valery Kuleshov, piano
  • CD/Album: Van Cliburn Competition 1993
  • Record co./Cat #: Philips 438906
  • Note: (Recorde live at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, 1993)
4:45 pm
  • Paganini Etude #2
  • Composer: Franz Liszt
  • Soloists: Valery Kuleshov, piano
  • CD/Album: Van Cliburn Competition 1993
  • Record co./Cat #: Philips 438906
  • Note: (Recorde live at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, 1993)
4:49 pm
  • Paganini Etude #3 "La Campanella" ("the little bell")
  • Composer: Franz Liszt
  • Soloists: Valery Kuleshov, piano
  • CD/Album: Van Cliburn Competition 1993
  • Record co./Cat #: Philips 438906
  • Note: (Recorde live at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, 1993)
4:55 pm
  • Klipp-Klapp Galopp
  • Composer: Johann Strauss II
  • Ensemble: Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic (Kosice)
  • Conductor: Johannes Wildner
  • CD/Album: The Best of Marco Polo
  • Record co./Cat #: Marco Polo 8.223002
5:07 pm
  • La Traviata: Prelude to Act I
  • Composer: Giuseppi Verdi
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic
  • Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
  • CD/Album: Verdi: Ouverturen und Vorspiele
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 419622
5:12 pm
  • Le Tombeau de Couperin (orchestral version)
  • Composer: Maurice Ravel
  • Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
  • CD/Album: Pavane - Ravel & Satie & Faure
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 449186
5:28 pm
  • Souvenir de Paganini in A , Op. posth , KK 1203
  • Composer: Frederic Chopin
  • Soloists: Lilya Zilberstein, piano
  • CD/Album: Chopin: Complete Edition, Vol. 7
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 463066
5:34 pm
  • Concerto Grosso #6 (after Scarlatti) in D
  • Composer: Charles Avison
  • Ensemble: The Avison Ensemble
  • CD/Album: Charles Avison: 12 Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti
  • Record co./Cat #: Divine Art 21213
5:48 pm
  • Variations on a Theme by Paganini
  • Composer: Witold Lutoslawski
  • Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Soloists: Peter Jablonski, piano
  • Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
  • CD/Album: Rachmaninov/Shostakovich/Lutoslawski
  • Record co./Cat #: London 436239
6:07 pm
  • Oboe Concerto in C , K 314
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ensemble: The English Concert
  • Soloists: Paul Goodwin, oboe
  • Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
  • CD/Album: C. Ph. E. Bach/Lebrun/Mozart: Oboenkonzerte
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 431821
6:28 pm
  • Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini , Op. 43
  • Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic
  • Soloists: Van Cliburn, piano
  • Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin
  • CD/Album: Van Cliburn in Moscow - Rachmaninoff - Brahms
  • Record co./Cat #: RCA 62695
6:53 pm
  • Caprice #24 in a , Op. 1
  • Composer: Nicolo Paganini
  • Soloists: Thomas Zehetmair, violin
  • CD/Album: Paganini: 24 Caprices
  • Record co./Cat #: Teldec 26774

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