Holy Crap! Salvatore Accardo Plays Paganini #1 (Cadenza)

[rtega]

Maybe you people should listen to Hirsshorn...

[carmensanchezz]

Another worth listening to is Viktor Tretyakov with the Moscow Philharmonic under Neeme Yarvi - spectacular!

I would like to hear your thoughts.

Rabin, Accardo & Tretyakov have to be in your montage...have you done this yet?

What others were you thinking of posting?

[yyeims]

this is not place to discuss the music is to listen and enjoy

[rapter9800]

Do you have the rest of the concerto? They aren't in the suggestion box and a search on youtube yields nothing

[MrGunterguerrero]

Salvatore Accardo is the best Paganini's performer of our times !

[manyatico]

@MrGunterguerrero

Total agree withyou...Accardo is the best!!!...

regards,

[remoremoli]

@MrGunterguerrero è vero, condivido questo parere !

[jin12345678]

his playing harkens back to 19th century tradition with more pure,fiery tone and expressive vibrato and tone color IMO

[TheViolinista01]

Makes my fourth finger hurt just listening to it!

[gloria25031]

The sheer otherworldy exection of hellishly speeding tempo and time is mind-blowing! Thank you, aimson for generously posting this! This helps immensely on the opera libretto I am currently engaged in, on Paganini's life!

[remusrimbu2]

i have also 6recordings whit this cadenza:

1Accardo

2Markov

3Vengerov

Those are the best!

[calloffthedogs]

Hirchhorn and Kogan are incredible too. Both can be heard on Youtube

[kljsadfhklj]

"I'm sure nobody's heard of him today."

You gotta be kidding.

[TheViolinBill]

He is very good,but Kavakos is just perfect!Accardo sounds pathetic in front of Kavakos!!!Also he misses a few notes!Kavakos doesn't!

[cjh37878]

That's your opinion. My opinion is the exact opposite. Anyways, the notes missed are probably because of different sheet music.

[shugo104]

Good job buddy, I'm glad you're on the "I have a single fav violinist" bandwagon like too many others. Listen to the playing, stop bitching about how so-and-so is better and whoever. Accardo's is amazing, just as Kavakos is.

[menofrance]

If only you knew that when Accardo recorded the concerto he was ill you won't say this. Moreover Accardo is abble to play the 5 concertos. My father studied with him and he told me that the morning when he was in course before begining he always ask my father to buy him a coffee and during the time he get it, he played a paganini caprice, just after wake up.

[zaokoyechatma]

that guy mintz is way better than this

[blichilde]

Oh,no. Surely not Mintz...

[zaokoyechatma]

Oh,yes.Surely he is this guy is the best. Now cant I have my own best violinest

[blichilde]

Of course you can. And I can disagree.Tastes, you know.

[zaokoyechatma]

yeah u have yours and i have mine

[genmaximus110]

I have Accardo playing all 6 on vinyl. It's quite a nice set. :)

[Draziw777]

Accardo is very good, but the best from the best is Michael Rabin, playing Paganini concerto. Marvelous.

[ednutcracker]

Accardo has it!

[OriginalMoonbeam]

Really enjoyed this..appreciate your sharing. I like Mr. Accardo's Paganini' interpretations--it's not just the technique--it seems to be the intuition as well.

[lnpsych]

As to the caprices, I agree with milstein91(an outstanding violinist himself), that Kavakos is probably the most impressive.

[clovis2012]

There is no one better. Salvatore Accardo is the master of kings, the king of masters when it comes to playing Paganini.

[gigiontube]

@clovis2012

Did you listen to Leonidas Kavakos?

[Sinfoniette]

Accardo is one of the best Paganini violinists, but did anyone hear the Francescatti and Kogan rendition? Its worth listening to it, especially the Francescatti.

[OriginalMoonbeam]

I agree Sinfoniette: I totally enjoy both Kogan and Francescatti though they are different in their approaches; both totally enjoyable. Francescatti's playing of the Paganini Caprices utterly gorgeous and played for the listening pleasure of the audience rather than to dazzle them with break neck speed.

[hvassilev]

Especialy about Paganin, all them are below the genius Vasco Abadjiev. Only Franceskati is near to his class.

[ThouArtMad]

Some violinist in the orchestra lead-in sure gave it his all! Talk about giving it 110%...

Accardo isn't bad either, in fact he's marvellous! He takes his time, makes it lovely, precise, gorgeous, like the lush feathers from an angel's wings...

gives the feeling of being in love.

[GSYBE631]

The violinist in the lead-in you refer to might be Accardo playing along with the orchestra...impossible to know though.

Absolutely agree with you on all counts!

[shugo104]

Accardo does play the orchestral parts as well :)

[NorthenLight1]

This cadenza is based on Carl Flesch and Emil Sauret You have to also hear the execution of the E minor concert (no6). The cadenza over there is amazing , composed from Accardo.

[Silkmeister]

nobody plays paganini like accardo. just simply perfect

[milstein91]

Watch Kavakos he kills accardo...

[karel747]

This interpretation is amazing. It's always nice to hear different rendition of this concert by another master. That being said, anyone interested in hearing another amazing interpretation should seek out Gil Shaham's.

[theclassicalmusic]

I love Paganini! Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

[arianofolk]

comunque io preferisco uto ughi....

[blichilde]

Seguo entrambi da circa 40 (!) anni e li ho sentiti molte volte dal vivo.

Mi pare che ultimamente Ughi sia molto,come dire,invasato...L'ultima volta che l'ho visto dal vivo faceva le piroette sul palco mentre suonava e a metà (non alla fine!) di un pezzo veloce ha urlato un AARGH che ha quasi spaventato il pubblico.Mi è venuto qualche sospetto...

Insomma,preferisco Accardo.

[lupenzo71]

questa di ughi che grida un aarghh fa ridere:))cmq si il maestro accardo e' piu' serioso e composto e lo peferisco anche io

[Brunildilla]

Fantastique!

[jimmyd8844]

His technic isn't as good as kavakos or vengerov

[dfxr808]

You're freaking kidding me right? He blows Vengerov out of the water.

[blichilde]

I agree with dfxr for Vengerov,but Kavakos is a genius.

BTW,I find Accardo wonderful.

[milstein91]

@dfxr808 oh yeah?say me in what points,for sure not in tech,sound,intonation or musicallity.

[Fisherdec]

nah hes not that great but at least he did better than I expected

[singinginachurch]

Love the cover art.

Great Video!

Great Music!

[chenneyweny]

just curious...have u heard sarah changs?  if so whats ur opinion?

[LittleLag19]

he is unequaled in playing paganini.

[musicmatt09]

Actually, I am quite unimpressed by his playing. His 1977 DG recording of the Capricci are perhaps the sloppiest recording I have ever heard, coming second behind Ricci, whom I'm also not very fond of.

[TheFacelessWarrior]

Magnificent .. I'll be sure to check out the CD.

[DED319]

I have this cd set as well and I enjoy all the concertos. Of the obscure ones (3-6) I like 4 the best. The Risoluto is also cool.

[Trulyloyale]

No one in the world can play Paganini with that virtuosism shown by maestro Accardo, that's universally recognized by worldwide experts. He's so highly regarded because he's simply a monster.

[cheetos4me]

Rabin has also a very good interpretation.

[msiu]

I actually think that this cadenza doesn't show Accardo at his fiery best, because he's mostly following the usual Sauret cadenza here, whereas in the other 5 concerti, he came up a lot of his own stuff, which is even more technically impressive.

[aimson]

I like this cadenza the best and have heard a dozen different recordings of it - maybe that's why I'm so impressed. I am not as familiar with the other concerti but I will say that his cadenzas are just generally amazing. I was originally thinking of doing a montage of all 6 cadenzas to compare in one recording - a good idea you think?

[akhadivi]

that seems likea  good idea to me

[cromulentinnoc3nce]

maybe it's just me, but i don't understand why accardo is so highly regarded. the best i've heard from him is probably the bruch.

[cromulentinnoc3nce]

haha i take that back, his paganiniana is excellent.

[cawa15a]

imho Kogan's and Hirshhorn's cadenzas better in tech. quality and sound

btw in our time there is a lot of people who can play this concerto with better quality.

[aimson]

Oh, I'm sure. But I didn't post this because of technical quality. I'm a musician not a technician. I posted this because Accardo plays this cadenza as if he is on fire. He is a true virtuoso and I wanted to share. By the way, where did you find Kogan's cadenza? I want to hear!

[jonianviolinist]

Its great you put that up!Well,i am his student.i have all the recordings of him.I will put in some days also the concerto for four violins from vivaldi with him(and me 4th violin).i think is the best interpretation ever.

[bastionigransasso]

Marvellous. This is played with one of his 2 stradivari I believe. I would be interested in seing Maestro Accardo play this with the "Guarneri del Gesù", the violin Paganini used to play and nicknamed "violino cannone", now kept in Genova.

[genmaximus110]

I have Accardo playing all of Paganini's violin concertos on vinyl record. This is a very nice cadenza.

[heystopwiththattv]

Badass

Thanks for putting this up :]

[violinoamore]

He plays this equilibristic cadenza with such an ease ... I have this CD set. Unfortunately only the first concerto and the third movement from the second one are bearable. The rest is just a musical crap full of ascending and descending violin passages stuffed with some routine orchestra scores behind, without any invention. No wonder that almost no one plays these pieces.

[aimson]

Wow, really? I have been listening to the set for the past 2 weeks over and over again. I absolutely love all of #5, 1st of #1, and 3rd of #3 (la campanella). I agree that they get tiresome, especially if you listen to all 6 front to back in one sitting. But the invention is in the technique and it is all over the place in every concerto.

[matwhi]

Thanks for drawing my attention to this (which I discovered I already had!). Can see I have away to go with my skills.

[cornel999]

i bought Accardo's recording of the 6 soon after it came out. liked it, still do, big Paganini fan, but Accardo's not my fav. check out Massimo Quarta's website (via google). you can listen to his entire recordings online, incl all 6 Paganini. he's the best. there's also a picture of him and Accardo trying out a violin.

[violinoamore]

I went to the Massimo Quarta website. I listened to "Variazioni su un tema di Weigl" from his Paganini CD. It was incredibly out of tune ... (second portion of the first part).

[ztefieh]

Although I prefer Paganini's 2nd concerto over the others, I'd have to say this is one of the best-suited cadenza's I've heard for this concerto. Mr. Accardo has a very warm tone. (p.s. I think your title is quite fitting: Holy Crap!)

[blastbomb123]

Very nice.

[BarNuun]

It is marvelous, very silky and thanks for posting it; reminds me a version by Sarah Chang 1995 was taken off recently, leaving an huge gap, for awhile. Very different Cadenzas.