Music

I. Allegro maestoso 0:00
Cadenza: Émile Sauret 18:23
II. Adagio 24:10
III. Rondo. Allegro spiritoso 29:29

In this recording, Paganini’s original instrumentation is used. This calls for 1 flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 1 bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 1 trombone, and strings. In the years following the original publication of the work, Paganini intermittently expanded his orchestration, writing additional parts for performance. These included a 2nd flute, contrabassoon, double the number of horns, new trombone 1 and trombone 2 parts, with the pre-existing trombone role becoming a (bass) trombone 3 part. Percussion parts were also added for timpani and banda turca (bass drum, crash cymbals, and suspended cymbal). His one and only surviving manuscript score does not contain these parts.