Ole Bull
Ole Bull Capriccio 1839
World Premiere Recording
Engineer/producer-Jonathan Haskell
Ole Bull was profounding affected by hearing Paganini in Paris in 1832. However, of all of thd violinists influenced by the Genoan, pursued the most original musical and virtuosic path. He was the first great player to successfully incorporate traditional ‘folk’ playing, in his case, the hardanger tradition, into violin playing. This is clearly audible in this tiny album leaf, which is effectively a meeting between the sound worlds of ‘Mollergutten’, the most famous of hardanger players, and Paganini’s extremist virtuosity.