Paganini Ensemble Vienna - Quartets for StringsNicol Paganini's Quartets for Strings and Guitar offer some of the best examples of his inexhaustible creativity, including ideas and themes that were later included in his more famous concertos. The Seventh Quartet combines mastery of form with endless melodic inventiveness, while the Fourteenth is more virtuosic, allowing it's dedicatee to shine as a violinist with splendid effectiveness. The dark color of the viola gives unique timbre to the

Kremer often plays them to projections of works by the Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus in the background

Parsons' work is the cornerstone of our last two volumes

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Esposito's works have a particular Irish flavor

Rooted in tradition this recording of Yoruba (Nigerian) percussion and chant features 'incredibly beautiful rhythms and drumming patterns

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a former pupil of Bob van Asperen and today Professor of Harpsichord in Weimar

"There are few more interesting violinists on the worldwide scene than Rachel Barton Pine

and is the strongest album of the band's decade-long career

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and sold out countless shows

where a strong oral tradition is still preserved today