Paganini: Complete Edition (40 CDs)

It is practically impossible to speak of the violin without mentioning Paganini. He represented a veritable milestone in the history of the instrument, in that what came before him is without doubt different from what came after him. Paganini was also a composer, yet the public at large has long had only a partial knowledge of his works: several of his manuscripts belonged to a private collector who prevented scholars and publishers from having access to them, while existing editions of the published works were often unreliable and misleading. When Paganini's manuscripts returned to Italy in 1970, things finally changed, and Dynamic can now offer, for the first time in a single 40-CD box set, all of Paganini's works that are currently known and available. The endeavour of recording and publishing them all on CD has been considerable and has required several years' commitment, but now anyone wanting to know the true Paganini can find in this release the legacy of a man and a composer whose performances and compositions represented a crucial turning point in the history of music, and not just for the violin.

Artists
Massimo Quarta (violin/director), Salvatore Accardo (violin), Franco Mezzena (violin), Franco Traverso (french horn), Rino Vernizzi (bassoon), Luigi A. Bianchi (viola), Andrea Noferini (cello), Antonello Farulli (viola), Adriano Sebastiani (guitar), Dora Bratchkova (violin), Gotz Hartmann (violin), Pier Domenico Sommati (violin), Stefan Milenkovich (violin), Riccardo Agosti (vello), Riccardo Agosti (cello), Claudio Gonella (bassoon), Dorina Frati (mandolin), Piera Dadomo (guitar), Maurizio Preda (guitar), Luigi A. Bianchi (violin), Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Guido Fichtner (guitar), Adriano Sebastiani (buitar), Stefano Delle Donne (violin), Marco Scicli (viola), Damiano Puliti (cello), Luca Ballerini (piano), Luca Fanfoni (violin), Daniele Fanfoni (violin), Luca Simoncini (cello), Fabrizio Giudice (guitar), Lucia Cortese (soprano), Bin Huang (violin), Fabio Macelloni (piano), Nicholas Goluses (guitar), Ruggiero Ricci (violin), Sandra Fuga (piano), Giulio Bignami (violin), Vasa Prihoda (violin), Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Franco Gulli (violin), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), André Benoist (piano), Jascha Heifetz (violin), Arpád Sándor (piano), Carl Furstner (piano), Guido Agosti (piano), Ferenc Vecsey (violin), Fritz Kreisler (violin), Zino Francescatti (violin)

Carlo Felice Theatre Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Genoa Chamber Orchestra, Coro Januensis, RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Paganini Quartet, Paganini String Quartet, Niccolo Paganini Conservatory Chorus, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Lamoureux Concerts Association Orchestra, Milan Angelicum Orchestra, Paris Symphony Orchestra, Virtuosi d'Assisi, Philadelphia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit, Franco Tamponi, Antonio Plotino, Jacques Delacôte, Arturo Toscanini, Franco Gallini, Luciano Rosada, Pierre Monteux, Piero Mordini, Eugene Ormandy