PAGANINI, N.: Guitar Works (Complete), Vol. 1 (Bonelli)
The guitar’s significance in Paganini’s career as a composer is evident. It is possible that before practicing the violin and the ‘chittara francese’, he received his first musical training from his father on a ‘mandolino genovese, which had six courses or six single strings, tuned similarly to the guitar. The recording dedicated to Paganini’s complete works for guitar is divided into two double-disc volumes. The first volume includes the 43 Ghiribizzi and various other compositions, such as sonatas, sonatinas and free forms. Mauro Bonelli, for the realisation of this work, used a period guitar with catgut strings, tuned to 415 Hz: nineteenth-century Austrian guitar without a label; the fact that its fretboard can be tilted by means of a peg connects it with the best Legnani-Stauffer tradition.
Tracklist
| 7 | No. 19 in G Major: Corrente - No. 20 in C Major: Andante (after La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni by Mozart) - No. 21 in A Major: Allegretto | 04:48 |
| 11 | No. 31 in A Major: Minuetto: Andante - No. 32 in A Major: Allegretto - No. 33 in A Major: Allegretto - No. 34 in A Major: Waltz | 04:13 |
| 12 | No. 35 in D Major: Waltz - No. 36 in C Major - No. 37 in A Major: Adagietto con espressione (after Rossini) | 04:09 |
| 7 | Rondoncino in E Major, MS 94 - Rondo in C Major, MS 95 - Valtz in E Major, MS 96 - Andantino in C Major, MS 97 | 04:58 |
| 9 | Andantino in G Major, MS 99 - Valtz in G Major, MS 100 - Trio in F Major, MS 101 - Andantino in F Minor, MS 102 | 03:53 |
| 10 | Marcia in A Major, MS 103 - Guitar Sonata in A Major, MS 104, "Che va chiamando Dida" - Marziale in E Major, MS 105 | 06:41 |




























