PAGANINI AT THE PIANO
Arrangements and Variations by
HAMBOURG • BUSONI • ZADORA • FRIEDMAN • PAPANDOPULO
GORAN FILIPEC
“Paganini, who already during his lifetime became an icon of instrumental virtuosity, inspired Liszt and other pianists of the so-called grand manner, to arrange his pieces for piano or write variations on some of his themes. These works feature instrumental brilliance and are, as a rule, demanding for the performer from the virtuosic point of view. The present edition includes excellent arrangements by Michael Zadora, and the variations by Mark Hambourg which were never recorded previously, as well as very rarely played variations by Ignaz Friedman and Busoni's Introduzione e Capriccio (Paganininesco). The Croatian composer Boris Papandopulo joins them with his arrangements of three Capriccios After Paganini, in a quiet later style.” – Goran Filipec
HAMBOURG, M.: Variations on a Theme by Paganini
(1782–1840)
About this Recording
In the years between 1902 and 1914 some of the world’s greatest pianists published a series of works that explored the lyricism and virtuosity of Paganini’s Caprices. Busoni was the greatest figure among them, but he considered Mark Hambourg to be the greatest pianistic talent of his generation. Both Michael Zadora and Ignaz Friedman carried out inventive free transcriptions while years later the Croatian Boris Papandopulo infused the pungent flavours of mid-20th-century idioms into the genre.
(1909 / 2ND EDITION, 1925) (05:44)
3 CAPRICCIOS AFTER PAGANINI (1981) * (07:41)
TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 55:04
GORAN FILIPEC
Goran Filipec, recent laureate of the Grand Prix du Disque of the Ferenc Liszt Society of Budapest for his 2016 recording of Liszt’s Paganini Studies (Naxos 8.573458), was born in Rijeka (Croatia) in 1981, and studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne and the Zagreb Academy of Music. He is a prize-winner of several piano competitions including the Premio Mario Zanfi ‘Franz Liszt’, Concurso de Parnassos, the José Iturbi International Music Competition and the Gabala International Piano Competition. He performs regularly in Europe, the United States, South America and Japan.
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