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 Blachers international renown. It takes as its theme the wellknown 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