Paganini : Variations on God Save the King - Ruggiero Ricci

[RichieLeone]

How did Paginini know "America the Beautiful?" ;))

[snichol8]

THANKS. I HEARD RICCI PERFORM THIS UNACCOMPANIED IN 1967 IN A CONCERT. THIS RECORDING IS MUCH EASIER TO HEAR. I STUDIED WITH RICCI IN 1965-66, AND HE HAD THE SAME INCREDIBLE TECHNIQUE THEN.

DESPITE HIS CRITICS, HE WILL BE REMEMBERED AS ONE OF THE GREATEST VIOLINISTS OF ALL TIME, AND PERHAPS THE GREATEST VIOLINIST TECHNIQUE-WISE.

[YIBDH]

Only the best of the best can played well like Ruggiero lol

[2ndviolinist]

Correction: Ricci studied with Persinger in San Francisco in the '20s (along with Menuhin). He must have taken some lessons with Persinger from time to time at Juilliard.

[2ndviolinist]

The pianist is Louis Persinger, Ricci's teacher at Julliard. My brother took from Persinger in the '60s, my teacher, Leonard Posner took from him in the '40s. Persinger said Ricci would stare out the window watching at the boats on the Hudson.

[malikrox]

I hate to call a recording definitive, but this is the single most pristine recording of this ridiculously difficult piece ever made.

[jasonform]

pretty good,wasn t expecting so good from ricci

[rapter9800]

2:55 - 3:12 is entirely left hand pizzicato... that is insane

[marsvltor2]

Forget the piano - this is, and always will be, the definitive recording. Ricci, the Pag specialist, and a wonderful fiddle (the ex-Gibson). Have this on an old Decca Eclipse LP. Still unsurpassed. P:-)

[32henrychinese]

From 3:13-3:34....what the hell, that is sooooo hard. Would love someone to point me to a violinist that plays it better than that!

[lezare2012]

This should be unaccompanied.

[MrTheComposer]

@lezare2012 The original version is for violin and orchestra and was played exactly as written in the original score, perfectly, according to Fétis, the musicologist and Carl Ghur who published during Paganini's lifetime his treatise on "The art of playing the violin according to Paganini"... Here, Ricci plays all the variations of the original score

[94add]

There was a piano... Are you deaf?

[fishiees]

there was no piano. it was all played by Ricci unaccompanied

[AlexanderWung]

I would like to know how he does the one way ricochet bowing at 5:00!

[gogomarlu]

2 sad that there is a piano :((