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Six Fantasias, No.1: Fantasia on Paganini's Second Violin Concerto, Op.147.1

Category Chamber Music > Instrumental - Strings
Composed 2007
Duration (approx) 7.5 minutes
Parts 

Violin

Notes 

Includes a rendition of the Cadenza to Paganini's Violin Concerto No.2. First performance was given on the Il Cannone Guarnerius of 1743, an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri of Cremona (1698-1744).

Related Works Cadenza to Paganini's Violin Concerto No.2
Six Fantasias, Op.147
Six Fantasias, No.2: Capriccio-Fantasia, Op.147.2
Six Fantasias, No.3: Brno Fantasia, Op.147.3
Six Fantasias, No.4: Sibeliad, Op.147.4
Six Fantasias, No.5: Fantasia on Rachmaninov's Prelude in G Minor, Op.147.5
Six Fantasias, No.6: Midwinter Song, Op.147.6
Recording(s) David Matthews - Music for Solo Violin, Volume Two
Publisher Unpublished
First performance 18 October 2007
Venue Palazzo Doria Tursi, Genova, Italy
Soloists / Players Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin)