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Composer

Paganini

1album devoted to Paganini
5further appearances
1loose cut
1941–2022years covered
12jazz artists

Paganini’s Twenty-fourth Caprice was a transformation machine long before jazz reached it: Liszt, Brahms and Rachmaninoff all built new works from its theme. A jazz arrangement simply continues the chain, exchanging nineteenth-century virtuoso display for another kind of improvising bravura.

Albums devoted to Paganini

Every one of these albums is centred on Paganini’s music, with no other classical composer on the record.

Also appears on

Records where Paganini shares the programme with other composers.

Appears on these Loose Cuts

1 cut from 1 record – singles, and extracts from records that only sprinkled in a few classical tunes.

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