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Paganini : 24 Caprices, op. 1. Noferini.
Format : 2 CD
Total Time : 01:39:12

Recording : 01/09/2013
Country : Italie
Sound : Studio / Stereo

Label : Tactus
Catalog No. : TC781690
EAN : 8007194200270
Price Code : DM029A

Publishing Year : 2014
Release Date : 13/10/2014

Genre : Classical
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)
24 Caprices pour violon seul, op. 1

Roberto Noferini, violon

Une prise de son au plus près laissant entendre le frottement de l’archet sur la corde, et les couleurs d’un instrument d’époque tendu de boyau (pas le Guarnerius de Paganini, mais un Scarampella de 1865) nous font oublier en quelques minutes que « le violon seul est l’instrument […] peut-être le plus exaspérant qui soit » (A. Tubeuf). L’écoute dans la continuité de ce disque ardu constitue une expérience captivante, presque chamanique (le XIX° siècle, faute de mots, disait « diabolique »). Sons faits matière, tonalités insaisissables (n° 8), vrombissements de palmes pourtant immobiles dans le vent (fascinant n° 6), transes de derviche tourneur, bourdons de cornemuse, d’où émergent presque modernes l’art formel de Bach (n° 2), l’étrangeté de Biber…On friserait plus d’une fois l’exhibitionnisme si la difficulté omniprésente, himalayenne, ne ressemblait plutôt à de la flagellation. Paganini qu’on disait enfant battu se serait-il infligé ces Caprices en pénitence de la facilité avec laquelle il subjuguait les foules ? Noferini et ses choix interprétatifs radicaux nous offrent un disque à écouter au casque et toutes lumières éteintes pour entendre des voix étranges, immémoriales et pourtant familières. (Olivier Eterradossi)

“The electricity I feel when I’m dealing with the magic harmony […]”, Paganini wrote on 15 January 1832 in a letter to his friend Luigi Guglielmo Germi. There could be no better definition of Paganini’s musical temperament. This is what Schubert said after hearing Paganini play in a concert: “I have heard the voice of an angel”. And Liszt’s comment was: “How much passion, how much suffering in those four strings […]”. How can we imagine Paganini’s art today, at such a distance in time, unless we refer to the impressions of his contemporaries, of the people who had the chance to see him, listen to him, be thrilled by his music? The search for a performance that endeavours to get as near as possible to the magic of the “live” concerts of the great Genoese musician can only start from here. In order to attempt this feat, that is to move back two centuries, it is necessary to add to the wood, horsehair and strings a painstaking attention to the directions left by Paganini in his scores (this was the advice of A. Grumiaux), and the talent of a present-day virtuoso – in the reasonable hope that talent is less subject to the harsh law of time and can find another way of bringing back to our time the masterpieces of the past.

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