Paganini - Caprice for solo violin, Op. 1 No. 16 in G minor

…Ehnes has returned to these coruscating 'finger-breakers' (as Ricci once described them), playing with the same glowing tonal finesse as before, but with a new lyrical intensity… Beguilingly... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2009 More…

The Accardo/Paganini cycle remains a secure first choice: the Concertos are brilliantly and imaginatively played and well recorded. Indeed, these accounts do not fall down in any department. — Penguin Guide, 2011 edition More…

[Hadelich] manages to unravel Paganini’s nerve-shredding intricacies at speed while sustaining absolute tonal composure. The frankly ludicrous string-darting and hopping of No. 2 is negotiated... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This electrifying music with its dare-devil virtuosity has long remained the pinnacle of violin technique, and the Caprices encapsulate the essence of the composer's style. For a long time it... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Fischer plays these notorious finger-breakers as though they were amongst the most treasured pieces in the repertoire...she dons the various rhetorical disguises Paganini assumes...with engaging... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Sublimely controlled, Barenboim throws down the expressive gauntlet with playing as subtle as it is high-voltage and apparently – paradoxically – on the edge of reason. Underpinning the whole... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

If anyone is ever likely to convince you that there is more to Paganini's music than Rossini-in-technical overdrive melodramatics, it is Tanja Becker-Bender. …Becker-Bender gives the Italian's... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…