N. Paganini - Centone Di Sonate 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in a Minor - Major Allemande 2. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in a Minor - Major Courante 3. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in a Minor - Major Sarabande 4. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in a Minor - Major Les Trois Mains 5. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in a Minor - Major Fanfairette 6. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in a Minor - Major La Triomphante 7. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in a Minor - Major Gavotte & 6 Doubles 8. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in G Major - Minor Les Tricotets (Rondeau) 9. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in G Major - Minor L'indifferante 10. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in G Major - Minor Minuets I & II 11. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in G Major - Minor Le Poule 12. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in G Major - Minor Les Tirolets 13. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in G Major - Minor Les Sauvages 14. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in G Major - Minor L'enharmonique 15. Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin - Suite in G Major - Minor L'egyptienne 16. Solo Harpsichord Pieces from Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts (1741) La Livri (Rondeau) 17. Solo Harpsichord Pieces from Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts (1741) L'agacante 18. Solo Harpsichord Pieces from Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts (1741) La Timide (Rondeau I & II) 19. Solo Harpsichord Pieces from Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts (1741) La'indescrete (Rondeau) 20. La Dauphine (1747)

Ritzen / Cao / Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra - Chinese Requiem & Chinese Violin Rhapsody [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/05/2000

Guitar music is now written both by players of the instrument and by many who are not, but it was not always so. At one time composers were also virtuoso performers (usually of their own works) but during the nineteenth century this link became less and less strong; today, the composer-performer is a rare bird. The tide of musical events, however, bypassed the guitar, so that, until the situation was changed through the efforts of Andres Segovia (1893 - 1987), those who wrote for it also played it. In his own time Paganini was a famed virtuoso on both the violin and the guitar. In fact it was with plucked strings that he began his musical life at the age of five, with mandolin lessons from his father (a capable amateur musician); after two years he turned to the violin; which has the same tuning as the mandolin. Having soon exhausted his father's resources as a teacher he studied first with Antonio Cervetto (a theatre violinist) and then with the (locally) more famous Giacomo Costa, who, maybe to boost his own prestige as much as for the benefit of his pupil, arranged for the twelve-year-old Paganini to play in public. One year later his formal instruction in violin-playing ended and the self-instruction that led to the development of his 'legendary' technique began. Norbert Kraft The guitarist Norbert Kraft won early distinction in 1975, when he was awarded the Grand Prize in the Canadian CBC Radio Competition, following this in 1985 with first prize in the Segovia International Competition in Mallorca. He enjoys a substantial career as a concerto soloist and appears regularly with important orchestras, particularly in Canada and in the United States of America, as well as in Europe and the Far East. He was chosen to represent Canada at World Expo '90 in Osaka and again in Seville in 1992. Norbert Kraft is a faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music in New York