Niccolò Paganini’s 24 Caprices is perhaps the most famous piece by the early Romantic Italian composer, and among the most well-known pieces of all Western classical music in general. Each Caprice, like an étude, exploited and pushed to the limit a different set of skills. When the Caprices were first released, Paganini dedicated the composition to “all artists” rather than a particular person; he would later add specific dedications to his friends and colleagues. Date: 1802-1817 Catalogue: Op. 1 Order and Dedicatees: No. 0 - Introduction and title cards: 0:00 No. 1 - Andante in E Major (for Henri Vieuxtemps): 0:20 No. 2 - Moderato in B Minor (for Giuseppe Austri): 1:59 No. 3 - Sostenuto in E Minor (for Camillo Sivori): 4:45 No. 4 - Maestoso in C Minor (for Ole Bull): 7:42 No. 5 - Agitato in A Minor (for Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst): 14:06 No. 6 - Lento in G Minor (for Karol Lipiński): 16:36 No. 7 - Posato in A Minor (for Franz Liszt): 20:04 No. 8 - Maestoso in E-flat Major (for Jean-Delphin Alard): 24:00 No. 9 - Allegretto in E Major (for “Herrmann”): 26:37 No. 10 - Vivace in G Minor (for Theodor Haumann): 29:11 No. 11 - Andante in C Major (for Sigismond Thalberg): 31:35 No. 12 - Allegro in A-flat Major (for “Dhuler”): 35:04 No. 13 - Allegro in B-flat Major (for Charles Philippe Lafont): 37:49 No. 14 - Moderato in E-flat Major (for Pierre Rode): 40:23 No. 15 - Posato in E Minor (for Louis Spohr): 42:27 No. 16 - Presto in G Minor (for Rodolphe Kreutzer): 45:01 No. 17 - Sostenuto in E-flat Major (for Alexandre Artôt): 46:26 No. 18 - Corrente in C Major (for Antoine Bohrer): 49:39 No. 19 - Lento in E-flat Major (for Andreas Romberg): 52:06 No. 20 - Allegretto in D Major (for Carlo Gignami): 54:55 No. 21 - Amoroso in A Major (for Antonio Bazzini): 58:33 No. 22 - Marcato in F Major (for Luigi Alliani): 1:01:28 No. 23 - Posato in E-flat Major (to nobody): 1:04:00 No. 24 - Theme and Variations: Quasi Presto in A Minor (for Niccolò Paganini [the composer himself]): 1:08:45 Performer: Itzhak Perlman on violin Note: This channel does not own the score or audio, and they are only used for non-commercial purposes. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdtDDZS-0gM

Gary Noland’s “Aeternum Vale” for piano is an atonal composition written in 2008, written in memory of the author David Foster Wallace. Dr. Gary Lloyd Noland was born 1957 and grew up in a house shared by ten people. As an adolescent, Noland lived for a time in Salzburg, Austria and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Having studied with a long roster of acclaimed composers and musicians, he earned his Bachelor’s in music from UC Berkeley in 1979, continued studies at the Boston Conservatory, and transferred to Harvard University, where he obtained a master’s degree and a PhD in Music Composition in 1989. In addition, he has taught music at Harvard, the University of Oregon, and Portland Community College. As a composer, Noland’s works come in a diverse range of styles. His catalog consists of hundreds of tonal and atonal works, of which include piano, vocal, chamber, experimental, electronic pieces, and graphic scores. Noland’s compositions have been performed and broadcast worldwide, including his Grande Rag Brillante that premiered on the Yamaha Disklavier at NPR. Noland founded the Seventh Species concert series in San Francisco in 1990, and was also a founding member of Cascadia Composers association. Date: 2008 Catalogue: Op. 93 Dedicatee: David Foster Wallace (in memoriam) Performer: Jihye Chang on piano Note: This channel does not own the score or audio, and they are used for non-commercial purposes. The contents of the video were obtained from the composer and uploaded with the composer and performer’s permission. The audio is from a live performance from June 11, 2013. Composer’s website: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S736ORNJSQ