Caprices

He knew the demons in Russian icons and medieval sculpture and the monsters of Hieronymus Bosch, and admired Goya's "Caprices" series, which often portray humans as jackasses.

Chagall's Fanciful Creatures 2007

Some of these, like the "Caprices," a series of eighty etchings, are filled with imagination alternately tragical and grotesque; while another series, representing bull-fights, throughout its thirty-three plates depicts the incidents of the game with intense realism.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 Various

There are two bright "Caprices" and three excellent waltzes, of which the third is the best.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

'Caprices' is a variation in tenths, which should be played more often than it is, as it is very effective.

Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Frederick Herman Martens 1903

Here are a few of his characteristics: ” [Figure: Liszt here writes down several tiny excerpts from musical scores of Paganini's violin music, such as his famous "Caprices"]

Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

A few nights ago, the young Kazakh violinist Aisha Orazbayeva played a brilliantly adventurous recital at the Duke's Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, filling the august surroundings of the Academy with wild sonic exploration: Berio's violin Sequenza, a new concerto for violin and electronics that Orazbayeva made in collaboration with Peter Zinovieff, and Salvatore Sciarrino's Six Caprices, the only performance I could get to the hall in time for.

How a young Kazakh violinist dared to take on Sciarrino's Caprices – and won Tom Service 2010

And she played Sciarrino's Caprices with an ease and directness I haven't heard before.

How a young Kazakh violinist dared to take on Sciarrino's Caprices – and won Tom Service 2010

The program opened with a contemporary solo violin piece, Red Violin Caprices by John Corigliano, based on music he composed for the movie The Red Violin, for which he won an OSCAR.

Jim Luce: Caroline Goulding Makes Magic at Young Concert Artists 50th Anniversary Jim Luce 2010

The program opened with a contemporary solo violin piece, Red Violin Caprices by John Corigliano, based on music he composed for the movie The Red Violin, for which he won an OSCAR.

Jim Luce: Caroline Goulding Makes Magic at Young Concert Artists 50th Anniversary Jim Luce 2010

Salvatore Sciarrino's Six Caprices are ambitious, virtuosic showpieces.

How a young Kazakh violinist dared to take on Sciarrino's Caprices – and won Tom Service 2010