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In the May 2023 issue, Alina Ibragimova explains how Paganini’s 24 Caprices became her lockdown project at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020: ‘I decided to practise all of them every day,’ she says. ‘I’d always admired people who played them, and wondered if I had the technique and stamina to play them through. I didn’t want to slump and I wanted to make sure that I got up every morning, so I set an alarm clock and practised like crazy. It was going quite well, so I called Hyperion and asked if I could record them.’ 

Watch Alina practising the Caprices and talking about them in this video from Hyperion.  

The Strad Podcast #63: Alina Ibragimova on historically informed performance

Read: ‘I want to live every note of the music’ - Alina Ibragimova

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