CD 1:
Caprice No. 1 in E major
Caprice No. 2 in B minor
Caprice No. 3 in E minor
Caprice No. 4 in C minor
Caprice No. 5 in A minor
Caprice No. 6 in G minor
Caprice No. 7 in A minor
Caprice No. 8 in E-flat major
Caprice No. 9 in E major
Caprice No. 10 in G minor
Caprice No. 11 in C major
Caprice No. 12 in A flat major

CD 2:
Caprice No. 13 in B-flat major
Caprice No. 14 in E-flat major
Caprice No. 15 in E minor
Caprice No. 16 in G minor
Caprice No. 17 in E-flat major
Caprice No. 18 in C major
Caprice No. 19 in E-flat major
Caprice No. 20 in D major
Caprice No. 21 in A major
Caprice No. 22 in F major
Caprice No. 23 in E-flat major
Caprice No. 24 in A minor

No violinist can escape them: Paganini’s Caprices. A beautiful, infamous cycle of 24 works for violin solo with an enormous arsenal of technical delights.

With his 24 Caprices Niccolo Paganini set out to fascinate the audience and play the kind of music that people had never experienced before. As a young talent Niccolo had shocked and enraged the public by imitating animals using his violin and in the Caprices he elaborated on that earlier experimentation. Birdsong, hunting horns, laughter, donkeys - they were all brought to life through his instrument. When it comes to special techniques and almost impossible dexterity, his 24 Caprices go a step further than Locatellis. Above all Paganini’s caprices are full of drama. Calm and moving passages interchange without warning with fiery, almost violent passages.

For Lisa Jacobs it is not the technical aspects of the music, but exactly that enormous variety in the musical characters, the extraordinary sound landscape, and the fantasy and lyricism that has amazed her all her life and has been an inspiration for this recording.

Dutch violin virtuoso Lisa Jacobs is known for her passionate performances, interesting programs and communicative qualities on stage. She is equally at home on the concert stage with concertos, chamber music and solo works. Lisa Jacobs collaborated with amongst others the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Bremer Philharmoniker and respected conductors such as Riccardo Chaily, Neeme Järvi, Massimo Quarta, Otto Tausk, Jan Willem de Vriend and Carlos Miguel Prieto.

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Recorded at Cunerakerk, Rhenen, The Netherlands, 2017/2018. Played on Giovanni Battista Rogeri violin from 1692.