Boris Blacher - Orchestral Variations on a Theme of Niccolò Paganini, Op. 26

Boris Blacher (1903 - 1975) - Orchestral Variations on a Theme of Niccolò Paganini, Op. 26 (1947) Theme [0:00] Variation 1 [0:17] Variation 2 [0:50] Variation 3 [1:25] Variation 4 [2:27] Variation 5 [3:07] Variation 6 [3:27] Variation 7 [4:00] Variation 8 [4:39] Variation 9 [6:42] Variation 10 [7:21] Variation 11 [8:45] Variation 12 [9:24] Variation 13 [10:00] Variation 14 [10:47] Variation 15 [11:22] Variation 16 [12:48] Dresdner Philharmonie, Herbert Kegel (1980) “The Orchestral Variations on a Theme of Niccolò Paganini of 1947 was the work that secured Blacher’s international renown. It takes as its theme the well-known melody that concludes the 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin, originally treated by Paganini as a set of variations and also appropriated by Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Casella, Lutoslawski, Dallapiccola and Andrew Lloyd Webber as the subject for works in variations form. A single violin presents the them