Integral Recordings
Ruggiero Ricci is usually credited with the first integral recording of the 24 Caprices, in 1947. This was of the original version, for solo violin. Ricci later made three more recordings.
However, in 1940, to celebrate the centenary of Paganini's death, the complete set in the arrangement for violin and piano by Ferdinand David was recorded by the 20-year-old Austrian violinist Ossy Renardy, with Walter Robert on piano. This was the world premiere of any version of the 24 Caprices. Renardy had played the solo version of the 24 in his Carnegie Hall debut the previous October. In 1953, shortly before his untimely death, Renardy recorded the 24 again, in the same arrangement by David, with Eugene Hilmer accompanying.
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