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Paganini: 24 Caprices | 
| Creators: Niccolo Paganini, Eliot Fisk
Label: Nimbus Records
Category: Music
List Price: $10.98
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 194107
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 710357250521
EAN: 0710357250521
ASIN: B00165QONA
Release Date: July 8, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 1 in E Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 2 in B Minor | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 3 in E Minor | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 4 in C Minor | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 5 in A Minor | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 6 in G Minor | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 7 in A Minor | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 8 in E-flat Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 9 in E Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 10 in G Minor | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 11 in C Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 12 in A-Flat Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 13 in B-Flat Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 14 in E-Flat Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 15 in E Minor | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 16 in G Minor | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 17 in E-Flat Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 18 in C Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 19 in E-flat Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 20 in D Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 21 in A Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 22 in F Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 23 in E-Flat Major | | • | Caprices (24) for solo violin, Op. 1, MS 25: No. 24 in A Minor |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
"A dedicated proponent of new music ... a vivid, high voltage performance." -- Los Angeles Times Eliot Fisk performs his own virtuoso arrangements of the Paganini Caprices with beauty and passion.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not What One Expects From Such Pretense March 30, 2009
Colton Williams (Oklahoma City, OK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Eliot Fisk is lauded as a stunningly proficient virtuoso, capable of cunning special effects and comfortable playing at great speeds. He has taught some of the great modern guitarists and holds a place of singularity amongst his contemporaries - that of being a recognized name in instrumental music. He possesses great facility and can exploit his natural manual dexterity to play great works, such as these caprices, written for other instruments. On this record, Fisk clings to the techniques and sounds his guitar in a close approximation of the violin. That was a good idea. Stick with what works - these are violin pieces. Adding too much polyphony might obstruct the frantic beauty of Paganini's work. Yet as I listen to these pieces, each one progressively worse than the last, I become saddened by the thoughts this music inspires in me: "I can do this better"; "this guy plays like crap"; that sort of thing. I realized that a full throating of my most crass and insulting opinions is the only due of this recording. By the time I arrived at the godly, beautiful, agonizingly touching Moto Perpetuo (11), anger replaced uncertainty at what I was hearing. I dislike airing such negative feelings for anyone to see, but SHEEEEESH!! This is true-blue garbage. NO finesse. NO sustainable technique. NO dynamics. NO MUSICALLITY. This is not instrumentation that affects the soul. This is utterly cerebral ambedexterity. And this man, Eliot Fisk, acted as pedagogue to Marco Tamayo?!? Friends, listen to Tamayo's rendition of the 'Moto. Everyone in the room will cry. It is beautiful. OK, OK, slow down. Maybe this is just a bad recording of an otherwise fantastic musician. Let's go investigate....does he have any videos? STOP RIGHT THERE. Fisk is actually WORSE "in person". Wonky. That is a word I am happy to attribute. His playing is, yep, actually CRISPY. Crisped. Chunked-off, dripping with grease, flat on a napkin. Avoid this record.
 Amazing!! October 25, 2008
TCR (USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had heard that Fisk was one of the greatest guitarists ever, and I also heard that the caprices were some of the most difficult works for guitar ever. This CD delivers. Eliot Fisk is flawless. The recording quality is great. I cannot recommend this CD enough.
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