Artist: Rachel Barton Pine
Album: Bel Canto Paganini
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2017
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 02:02:36
Total Tracks: 28
Total Size: 2,21 GB

Tracklist:

1-01. Rachel Barton Pine – Nel cor più non mi sento: Introduction and Variations (12:56)
1-02. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 1, Caprice in E Major “L’Arpeggio” (01:51)
1-03. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 2, Caprice in B Minor “Moderato” (04:14)
1-04. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 3, Caprice in E Minor “Sostenuto-Presto-Sostenuto” (03:19)
1-05. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 4, Caprice in C Minor “Maestoso” (10:42)
1-06. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 5, Caprice in A Minor “Agitato” (03:02)
1-07. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 6, Caprice in G Minor “The Trill” (Lento) (08:07)
1-08. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 7, Caprice in A Minor “Posato” (07:54)
1-09. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 8, Caprice in E-Flat Major “Maestoso” (05:43)
1-10. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 9, Caprice in E Major “La chasse” (Allegretto) (03:13)
1-11. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 10, Caprice in G Minor “Vivace” (02:56)
1-12. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 11, Caprice in C Major “Andante-Presto-Andante” (04:26)
1-13. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 12, Caprice in A-Flat Major “Allegro” (04:55)
2-01. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 13, Caprice in B-Flat Major “Devil’s Laughter” (Allegro) (02:44)
2-02. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 14, Caprice in E-Flat Major “Moderato” (02:04)
2-03. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 15, Caprice in E Minor “Posato” (02:58)
2-04. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 16, Caprice in G Minor “Presto” (01:28)
2-05. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 17, Caprice in E-Flat Major “Sostenuto-Andante” (03:47)
2-06. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 18, Caprice in C Major “Corrente-Allegro” (02:31)
2-07. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 19, Caprice in E-Flat Major “Lento-Allegro Assai” (03:09)
2-08. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 20, Caprice in D Major “Allegretto” (03:08)
2-09. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 21, Caprice in A Major “Amoroso-Presto” (03:27)
2-10. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 22, Caprice in F Major “Marcato” (03:03)
2-11. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 23, Caprice in E-Flat Major “Posato” (05:44)
2-12. Rachel Barton Pine – 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: No. 24, Caprice in A Minor “Tema con Variazioni” (Quasi Presto) (04:24)
2-13. Rachel Barton Pine – Duo merveille, Op. 6 “Duet for One” (02:45)
2-14. Rachel Barton Pine – Caprice d’Adieu, Op. 68 (03:08)
2-15. Rachel Barton Pine – Introduction, Theme and Variations on “God Defend New Zealand” (04:43)

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Billboard chart-topping violinist Rachel Barton Pine traverses Paganini’s ground breaking set of 24 Caprices with virtuosic flair and, in equal measure, reverence for the bel canto – or “beautiful singing” – style of the composer’s generation. Playing on the ‘ex-Bazzini, ex-Soldat’ Guarneri del Gesù violin from 1742 – made by the same Cremona-based maker in the same year as Paganini’s own violin – Rachel channels the composer’s own technical wizardry as well as his love for beautiful melodies.Rachel was first introduced to Paganini’s Caprices at the age of six. In her early 20s she gave her first performance of all 24 Caprices in a single concert, a feat she has accomplished several times since including at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. and the Ravinia Festival.

Rachel fills out this two-album set with other pyrotechnical works by Paganini, including his “Duet for One”, Caprice d’adieu and the Introduction and Variations on ‘Nel cor più non mi sento’ from Giovanni Paisiello’s
 opera La molinara. Inspired by Paganini’s legacy of virtuosic themes and variations, Rachel concludes the set with her own Introduction, Theme and Variations on ‘God Defend New Zealand’, written in 2000 for the final concert of her first tour of that country.

Paganini dedicated his 24 Caprices “to all the artists.” Rachel in turn dedicates this recording “to all the listeners,” of which there will be legions.