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Paganini
Niccolò Paganini

Cornelia Vasile

Paganini

Format: CD
Label: Rhine Classics
UPC: 4713106280325
Catnr: RH 032
Release date: 20 February 2026
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Label
Rhine Classics
UPC
4713106280325
Catalogue number
RH 032
Release date
20 February 2026
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About the album

Musicweb (UK): The audio sources for these inscriptions have been very well preserved and the resultant sound quality compares favourably with a commercial studio recording of that period. This is a first CD release. I hope that more recordings of this wonderful violinist surface in the future. She deserves to be heard.
Aus dem Booklet: „Cornelia Vasile ist eine rumänische Geigenvirtuosin mit einer besonderen Vorliebe für die Musik Paganinis, die sie mit erstaunlicher Leichtigkeit und makelloser Technik interpretiert. Als echtes Naturtalent stellte sie ihr Talent schon in jungen Jahren unter Beweis. Sie wurde am 10. Dezember 1948 in Timisoara geboren und erhielt bis zu ihrem sechsten Lebensjahr Unterricht von ihrem Vater. Anschließend besuchte sie die Musikschule und gab mit neun Jahren ihr Debüt mit dem Philharmonischen Orchester in Timisoara mit Mozarts Konzert in G-Dur. Sie setzte ihr Studium bei den Professoren Losif Brandeis, Octavian Nicolaescu und Eugen Cuteanu fort und schloss ihr Studium am Konservatorium in Bukarest in der Klasse von Professor Lonel Geanta ab. 1969 nahm Cornelia Vasile an den Sommerkursen von Ivry Gitlis in Salzburg teil; das Konzert am Ende des Kurses war ein echter Triumph für sie. Der Münchner Musikkritiker Joachim Kaiser schrieb über sie, sie sei „ein echtes Naturereignis“ und „Frau Vasile interpretierte Lalos Spanische Symphonie und es war eine wahre Offenbarung, unter dem Bild der üppigen Blondine mit den langen Wimpern, so rein und fröhlich, ein solches Geigengenie zu entdecken. Cornelia Vasile spielte die Zugaben von Paganini mit einer solchen Freiheit, Entschlossenheit und Eleganz, dass sie nur von wenigen Geigenspielern, wenn überhaupt, besser interpretiert werden könnten. Ein Star war geboren. Es folgte eine nationale und internationale Karriere, die Cornelia Vasile zu einer der rumänischen Geigenvirtuosinnen machte. ALFRED HOFFMAN

Artist(s)

Cornelia Vasile (violin)

Romanian violinist (1947-2010) born in Timisoara. Pupil of Ivry Gitlis for few months in Salzburg and Paris, 1969-70. In 1973 she is said to have made a suicide attempt after she had not come in a competition (Premio Paganini, Genoa) to the final. Rumors of a completed suicide are wrong. Later, a certain stabilization seems to have occurred - Cornelia Vasile was (it will probably have been about from the early 80s) concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra Graunke in Munich (Symphonie-Orchester Graunke - today Munich Symphony Orchestra). In 1969 she recorded Paganini's 24 Caprices (Electrecord, Romania)
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Romanian violinist (1947-2010) born in Timisoara. Pupil of Ivry Gitlis for few months in Salzburg and Paris, 1969-70. In 1973 she is said to have made a suicide attempt after she had not come in a competition (Premio Paganini, Genoa) to the final. Rumors of a completed suicide are wrong. Later, a certain stabilization seems to have occurred - Cornelia Vasile was (it will probably have been about from the early 80s) concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra Graunke in Munich (Symphonie-Orchester Graunke - today Munich Symphony Orchestra). In 1969 she recorded Paganini's 24 Caprices (Electrecord, Romania)
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Composer(s)

Niccolò Paganini

The legendary violinist Niccolò Paganini was born on October 27th in Genoa. With his groundbreaking techniques and magical stage appearance he shocked the traditional concert life. Paganini's performance marks the emancipation of virtuosity. Especially the transcendental aspect of this virtuosity fit seamlessly with the romantic ideals of Faustian possesion and unrestrained expression. His Caprices op. 1 are the bible for violin performance, just like Chopin's Etudes op. 10 & 25 
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The legendary violinist Niccolò Paganini was born on October 27th in Genoa. With his groundbreaking techniques and magical stage appearance he shocked the traditional concert life. Paganini's performance marks the emancipation of virtuosity. Especially the transcendental aspect of this virtuosity fit seamlessly with the romantic ideals of Faustian possesion and unrestrained expression. His Caprices op. 1 are the bible for violin performance, just like Chopin's Etudes op. 10 & 25
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