Paganini – Violin Concerto No five

May 26, 2012 by DefranciscoBerk

Say the name Paganini to a modern music lover and the initial impression would most likely be of a virtuoso violinist dazzling the early 19th century audiences with his ‘tricks of the trade’. To be certain, Paganini was a great showman who did barnyard imitations on his violin and other things to please the crowd. But he was significantly much more than a showman. He was also consummate musician in the greatest sense of the term. With no technical barriers to hinder his musical expression, he could give wing to his musical imagination and touch the hearts of such outstanding musicians as Schumann, Chopin and Schubert. The slow movements of his violin concertos were much less about the fireworks and a lot more about the passionate musician Paganini could be. His tone could be heart-rending, and he could play as if he were an angel.

Numerous composers utilised the piano as an aid to composition in one way or the other. Paganini was not proficient on the piano. The instrument he utilised as a compositional aid was the guitar. This no doubt shows in his handling of the orchestra. And after all, his primary motive was to showcase the violin with an accompaniment that was as non-instrusive as achievable.

The 5th Violin Concerto was written towards the finish of his profession, and only the solo part exists. The orchestral parts have been reconstructed from the solo component and are a very fair representation of how the concerto could have sounded. The reconstruction was accomplished in 1959 by Frederico Mompellio and follows Paganini’s style very nicely.

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