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MS 2065

Caprice Variations

Released Date:
01 Dec 2008

Originally recorded in 2008
Artists:

Peter Sheppard Skaerved

violin

Venue:

St John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex

28 & 30 Aug 2000

Producer:

David Lefeber



Engineer:

David Lefeber



Record Label
Metier

Genre:

Violin




Total Time - 90:02
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GEORGE ROCHBERG

 

Caprice Variations

  
1 1 Allegro energico 1:16
2 2 Presto 0:56
3 3 Allegro molto e con fuoco 1:03
4 4 Poco allegro ma quasi recitando 2:09
5 5 poco agitato ma con molto rubato 0:42
6 6 Poco allegretto ma con rubato 1:37
7 7 Presto (after Beethoven Op.74 Scherzo) 0:57
8 8 Langquido (after Schubert Waltz Op.9, No.22) 2:14
9 9 Non troppo presto (after Brahms op.35, Bk.1, No.2) 0:38
10 10 Vivace (after Brahms Op.35, Bk.1, No.3) 0:56
11 11 Andante (after Brahms Op.35, Bk.1, No.11) 1:43
12 12 Andante con moto (after Brahms Op.35, Bk.1, No.12) 1:39
13 13 Feroce, energico (after Brahms Op.35, Bk.2, No.10) 1:09
14 14 Alla guitarra; allegretto con molto rubato 2:28
15 15 Con grazia; un poco agitato 1:41
16 16 Andante amoroso 1:45
17 17 Poco adagio 2:06
18 18 Allegro fantastico 2:10
19 19 Vivace 1:12
20 20 Quasi cadenza; andante con molto espressivo 3:02
21 21 Allegro con brio (after Beethoven Symphony No.7, Finale) 0:51
22 22 Molto espressivo e cantando 1:51
23 23 Andante grazioso e tranquillo 3:10
24 24 Allegretto 0:41
25 25 Scherzo 0:37
26 26 Con brio 0:45
27 27 Aria 2:48
28 28 Molto agitato 1:19
29 29 Lento ma non troppo 2:14
30 30 poco allegretto e leggiero 1:30
31 31 Molto adagio 2:39
32 32 Allegro assai; burlesco 1:25
33 33 Moderato; con amore 1:36
34 34 Molto adagio 3:05
35 35 Allegro molto; fantastico 2:05
36 36 Largo; sereno 4:36
37 37 Barcarolle 1:51
38 38 Can-can tempo; presto 1:16
39 39 Elegiac; fantastico 3:21
40 40 Robust; do not rush 1:05
41 41 Allegro molto (after Webern Passacaglia op.1) 0:39
42 42 Nocturnal; slow 2:39
43 43 Andantino 2:05
44 44 Scherzo (after Mahler Symphony No.5, Scherzo) 1:12
45 45 Presto 0:29
   
  CD 1 TT: 77:34      
   


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  CD TWO  
1 46 Bravura; sempre recitando; in the 'grand manner' 1:48
2 47 Arabesque; fantastico 2:42
3 48 Moderately fast: fantastico 2:00
4 49 Feroce 2:55
5 50 Fantasy 2:45
6 51 Quais Presto; robusto (Paginini's Theme: Caprice XXIV, Bk.II) 0:40
   
  CD 2TT: 12:55      
   
 Peter Sheppard Skaerved violin
   


An immense and amgnificent set of variations by American composer George Rochberg, not just, as the title may suggest, on Paganini’s famous 24th Caprice, but incorporating styles and forms "borrowed" from many other ocmposers, such as Mahler, Brahms, Busoni, Schubert and Beethoven! The work is played on the renowned "Habenck" Stradivarius violin of 1734. Violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved is a virtuoso of the first order and a regular Metier recording artist.
 

“What a recording!… violinist Skaerved, playing on Francois-Antoine Habeneck’s 1734 Strad, handles the work’s many terrors with appropriate style and gusto. These are 51 dazzling variations on Paganini’s wellworn tune. It’s a thrill a minute, and it’s outrageous enough to impress Paganini himself”

Allen Gimbel

American Record Guide

“...the performance is so compelling that interest never wavers; the recording is fine; and it doesn’t matter where the music came from since this magnificent instrument enjoys every note. “ 

Peter Dickinson

Gramophone

“...the journey is an impressive one… I have no hesitation in recommending it”

Peter Grahame Woolf

Musical Pointers

“This quirky, witty, beautiful and often bewildering 90-minute work’s sense of shape and purpose feels brilliantly complete.”

Catherine Nelson

The Strad



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