RIP Ruggiero Ricci

Started by JerryS, August 06, 2012, 08:41:20 AM

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Great violinist Ruggiero Ricci has died at the age of 94. Strad magazine has a tribute:

http://www.thestrad.com/Article.asp?ArticleID=2340

I heard Ricci play the complete Paganini Caprices in San Antonio in the early 1980's. In 1947 he was the first to record all 24 Caprices in their original form.
Jerry

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Quote from: vivolin on August 06, 2012, 08:41:20 AM
Great violinist Ruggiero Ricci has died at the age of 94. Strad magazine has a tribute:

http://www.thestrad.com/Article.asp?ArticleID=2340

I heard Ricci play the complete Paganini Caprices in San Antonio in the early 1980's. In 1947 he was the first to record all 24 Caprices in their original form.

No, I didn't think he had died 30 years ago,... no, I didn't :(