What have these elements in common?
They are the three most important pieces for instruments in solo literature, the composers who, with their compositions, came closest to going beyond the impossible. Demanding, insurmountable challenge.

In what way do they differ? Chopin, Paganini have for decades been in pianists and violinists concert playlists, while Popper is an object of study and curiosity only of violoncello players: his music involves a high margin of error and too modern a language, bound to the late-Romantic era of Wagner. Enough to hide such precious inventions, harmonic situations of melody and sonority, from the public's enjoyment.

Vito Paternoster has taken these studies and made concert pieces out of them. A challenge, some small readjustments and they've become not studies, but music. Alive music.

This is the first complete recording, don't miss it!

1. Etude 1
2. Etude 2
3. Etude 3
4. Etude 4
5. Etude 5
6. Etude 6
7. Etude 7
8. Etude 8
9. Etude 9
10. Etude 10
11. Etude 11
12. Etude 12
13. Etude 13
14. Etude 14
15. Etude 15
16. Etude 16
17. Etude 17
18. Etude 18
19. Etude 19
20. Etude 20
21. Etude 21
22. Etude 22
23. Etude 23
24. Etude 24
25. Etude 25
26. Etude 26
27. Etude 27
28. Etude 28
29. Etude 29
30. Etude 30
31. Etude 31
32. Etude 32
33. Etude 33
34. Etude 34
35. Etude 35
36. Etude 36
37. Etude 37
38. Etude 38
39. Etude 39
40. Etude 40

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 04/20/2014
Vito Paternoster lives in Bari Italy

Tagged as: Classical, Romantic Era, Instrumental, Cello

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