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Hank Zauderer is a violinist and an artist. He regularly hosts an evening classical music program at NPR radio station KUSP in Santa Cruz, California. In the past he was a member of several symphony orchestras and chamber music groups. In particular, he loves the study of great composers and feels that music composition so often reflects the key events that took place in a composer's life.
Hank's taste includes the old Gregorian Chants and related religious works as well as music of the Baroque, Classical, and the Romantic period. Some of his favorites include Mahler, Edward Elgar, Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, and Benjamin Britten.
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Papavrami performs Paganini!
Posted: Wednesday | 02.03.10
Papavrami performs Paganini
This CD is unique because it presents two versions of the famous Paganini Caprices played by Tedi Papavrami. This allows the listener to compare the version of his concert performance, given in Tokyo on April 19, 2001, with a studio recording made in 1997. The joining of these two versions sheds new light on the interpreter, who plays these pieces in an outstanding, musical, sensitive, and intelligent manner.
Tedi Papavrami was born in Tirana [Albania] in 1971 and he started to play the violin at age four. In September 1982, he was offered a scholarship to study at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris. In 1985 he won the contest “Rodolfo Lipitzer” in Gorizia and in 1986 he won the “First Award” of the Conservatory of Paris. In 1987 he received a degree at the Lausanne Conservatory. Then followed musical studies under the direction of Zino Francescati and Viktoria Mullova.
Clearly a live recording in Tokyo brings with it the stress, the distraction, yet the potential benefits of a live audience that can be an energizing experience for an artist. Glenn Gould ultimately decided that he really no longer wanted to do live concerts. As such, he concentrated entirely on recordings…
We have an opportunity to here to study differences in tempi, dynamics, and interpretation to see for ourselves the degree of difference.