Paganini Caprices 2 LP Set by Michael Rabin - Rare
$
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Description
Paganini Caprices OP.1 for Violin
Violinist Michael Rabin
Super Rare 1958 Pressing
The only listing we can find on E-Bay for this collection is a reproduction on cassettes, listed for $100.
This is the 2 record set by Capitol. It has the original sleeves which are basically mint and the original booklet that is also mint.
The case is excellent to near mint, with only a minor flaw on the bottom of one side. The color cover is mint.
The records are conservatively near mint, we believe it would not be exaggerating to say they are mint. If played at all, they have been played very, very little.
A stupendous set by a great violinist.
Below is a review by James Leonard on the caprices and the playing of Michael Rabin.
Separately, Paganini's Caprices (24) are among the most difficult pieces ever written for the violin. Together, they are the very definition of violin virtuosity. And not just technical virtuosity, but tonal and even emotional virtuosity. Playing the notes perfectly is the beginning -- not the end -- of performing the Caprices: playing the notes with exquisite beauty and emotional expressivity is the goal of performing the Caprices. Michael Rabin can do all of that and he makes it sound easy. In this 1958 Capitol recording, Rabin plays all the absurdly impossible notes of Paganini's Caprices with an unfailingly beautiful tone. Better than that, Rabin gets beneath the notes to the gloriously beautiful, wonderfully expressive music in the Caprices. One could almost forget how ridiculously difficult these pieces are when listening to Rabin's passionate, contemplative, dramatic, comic, seductive, and heroic interpretations. But when one realizes how difficult the pieces are and how easy Rabin makes playing them sound, one is amazed all over again. This is one of the greatest solo violin performances ever recorded. ~ James Leonard, Rovi
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