Paganini - Balleto Campestre - Variations on a comic theme for violin and orchestra 

I have listened to this many times, and am convinced that this is the greatest violin piece ever composed. Who better to play it than Salvatore Accardo. His playing is so magical. Just outstanding if I may say so. Paganini would have been very, very proud. All I know is, it can't get any better than this. Thank you so much for uploading this. I love this piece immensely.

Great Paganini !

Bravo au grand vioniste qui a su restituer le talent exceptionnel de Paganini pour notre plus grand plaisir. Je suis fascinée par cette pure merveille, un véritable enchantement 🙏🎶💓🎶✨✨

Sehr gelungen, eine wahre Freude es anzuhören

Paganini is the most underrated composer ever. Take this masterpiece for example, is so joyfull, so melodic, i could easily say that is nothing better than it, even by the golden trio of all times, Mozart, Beethoven and Bach

ABSOLUTAMENTE UNA COMPOZITIONE IMPOSSIBILE DA INTERPRETARE SENZA IL GENIO DI PAGANINI DENTRO IL CUORE E IL SPIRITO NEL VIOLONISTA !!!!

fantastic and beautiful as every piece of music he wrote. no wander he was, is and will be the best violinist ever....rodolfo

Veramente una meraviglia! Genio Paganini! Adoro escucharlo. Es mi músico preferido!

Geñial Nícolo !

Mesmerizing! The charm and simplicity of the tune, the elegance and inventiveness on its variations, even the sublime effect of its obsessive profusion...Wow, Paganini! JHBernardo, you are our jolly good fellow!

Ausgesprochen witzige Komposition, einzigartig

Latest 30 seconds are probably most joyfull tune from pre modern era

Maravilhoso!. não conhecia.e um desafio para os violinistas.Esta é uma obra hermosa que debiera darse mais aconhecer

I am surprised that this isn't better known and popular. It's GREAT!

first time I am hearing this piece. thanks to youtube. Keep the music flowing.

According to the book I have "Paganini: The Genoese Volume II" written by G.I.C. de Courcy, this piece was written in 1838, less than two years before Paganini's death. He was in Paris at the time and had just been involved in a disastrous business deal taking shares in a Casino called "Casino Paganini." The Parisian authorities ordered the Casino to be closed and he had to move out. They also slapped him with heavy fines for challenging their decision in court in an attempt to get out of the original lower level fines given to him. A letter from Paganini to his friend Luigi Germi says: July 11, 1838 "It will not seem strange to you that I drew a sight draft on Signor Migone some days ago for three thousand francs; please advise him that we will receive another for two thousand francs because I'm going to reopen my account with Baron Rothschild. I've just composed two grandiossissime sonatas with variations and I'm now composing a third. Then I have to orchestrate them. I must also orchestrate the grandiose concerto with the bell. True, I'm giving no concerts, but these compositions will do me credit and will bring in some money." In the footnotes, it reads that the following pieces found among his manuscripts at the time were most likely to be the ones discussed in the above letter, "Sonata Varsavia," "La Primavera," and "Balletto Campestre."

Speechless before such a masterwork. And Salvatore Arcado, what a violin's magician!

It's like a seventh violin concerto...

Humor y Variaciones,Paganini y su Grandeza!!!!!!!.-

Bravo!

Now let’s bow before this great maestro, Salvatore Accardo, a true incarnation for having all but reanimated Paganini’s seemly inhuman facility. If you listen intently, you may even hear Paganini, tapping his foot while playing his Guarnerius “Canon”, as though you’ve been swept back in time. What spectacle could entertain more than seeing this absolute wonder performing his miracles, with his miraculous music? These wildly enchanting balletto variations have a diabolically playful charm, dreamlike fantasia, and genuine beauty. Widely acclaimed, he was hundreds of years ahead of his time, an incomparable genius with inexplicable dexterity and virtuosic gifts so extraordinary, that to this day, it is said that he was in league with the Devil. His mother’s Faustian bargain dream now fulfilled, he must have known his time was nearing its end. So perhaps creating his oeuvre meant more than money and legacy, rather a means of comforting his suffering from afflictions, sanctuary from relentless antagonists, and cathartic respite for a tired and melancholy soul.

🎼 A M A Z I N G ❤️

Bom de ouvir, sempre.

Accardo genio assoluto del violino. Quando lo ascoltavo nei vari teatri italiani , parlo di circa 40 anni fa, aveva il doppio del suono di quasi chiunque, e molto molto più bello. Parlo di oistrac stern kogan tretiakov ricci perlman . S.olo la bellezza di ughi ci stava accanto.

Paganini,Genova y la Farinata!!!!.-

Salvatore Accardo/Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Franco Tamponi

帕格尼尼-为小提琴和管弦乐队而作的喜剧主题变奏曲

When was the actual performance?

Une oeuvre du Génois que je ne connaissais pas... quel est le soliste ?

Salvatore Arcado

Anybody know who the violinist is?

sorry, but Salvatore plays sometimes with a bad intonation. Like in the video, where he plays " Nel cor più........" in a private looking environement. He was normanally much better. Look at his discs of the 6 violin concerti !

Good,Better....ACCARDO

That painting depicts very poor violin playing position. He's slouching his back and his left hand holding the violin, and his bow holding arm shouldn't be at a 90° angle to his bow. Though, I'm sure Nicolo Paganini never actually held his violin like that.

The same old tricks.