Word: violinistic
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Deutsche Grammophon's new release "Paganini for Two" with violinist Gil Shaham and guitarist Goran Sollscher advertises itself as "Italian Music for Violin & Guitar-Perfect Company for Relaxing at Home." Recently breaking Billboard's classical top 20 as well as Tower's classical top 10, this recording's success continues a trend in popular classical music which arguably started with the fuss over Henryk Gorecki's third symphony, and includes the more recent "international phenomenon" of Chant...
...less of Paganini's naturally extroverted nature in his writing for violin and guitar. We see more of an introspective bent than one might expect from the composer of such flashy showpieces as Le streghe and the first violin concerto, both touchstones of technical facility. But, those looking for violinist pyrotechnics certainly will not be disappointed--Shaham has ample opportunity to flex his violinist technique, and he dose so impressively, yet tastefully...
...Garrity breaks out of prison (this is the high point of the film, coming at roughly four minutes in) and makes for Beantown to get Dove, who has since landed a job on the Boston Bomb Squad and met a female violinist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and her little daughter. He loves her, so he decides to get out of the Bomb Squad. The night of the wedding, Garrity kills another member of the bomb squad, and lo and behold, Dove is back on the case. Garrity nukes a couple more squad members, Dove saves a couple, and then...
While the coherency of the Quartet's ensemble and conceptions was uniformly irreproachable, the four performers at the same time made manifest their own quite disparate styles. The first violinist, Nick Eanet, revealed almost immediately the exquisite clarity of his highly-nuanced sound, while the cellist Marcy Rosen imbued all her solos with intense lyricism. The playing of the second violinist, Nicholas Mann, was passionate though somewhat rough, and the phrasing of the violist, Katherine Murdock, evinced bright enthusiasm...
...sense; you won't see the Concerto Grosso No. 4 turning up on MTV. But no living composer of so-called serious music exerts so much hold on the imagination and loyalty of his interpreters as does the reclusive Schnittke, 59. Performers from the old East bloc such as violinist Gidon Kremer, a fellow Soviet emigre, cellist-conductor Mstislav Rostropovich and conductor Kurt Masur have been championing his works for years. Now, it seems, the rest of the world is catching...