Paganini: Violin Caprices Transcribed For Flute
Label: BRILLIANT CLASSICS Catalog: BRI94627 Format: CD Niccolò Paganini has been a figure of inspiration and speculation for countless musicians after him. • Marieke Schneemann is by no means the first to play Paganini’s finger‐breaking Caprices on the flute, with all the necessary transpositions that requires, not to mention a virtuosity at least matching that required to play them on the violin, but she is the first to do so on a ‘period’ flute: a wooden conical ring‐keyed flute by Louis Lot, Paris, 1860. • Ms. Schneemann has been first and foremost a musician in the Netherlands flourishing historically informed, period instrument movement. Price: $13.98 |