Blown Away Marina Piccinini plays Paganini - recommended by HOWARD SMITH '... hypnotic interpretative gifts ...'

I was 'blown away' at hearing phenomenally gifted Italian/Brazilian flautist Marina Piccinini in Niccolo Paganini's breath-defying Twenty-Four Caprices, arranged here for flute by Piccinini herself.

The forty-six-year-old musician is clearly a 'Mullova of the winds', blessed with hypnotic interpretative gifts and with flawless, unexcelled technical skills.

I doubt if we'll encounter a greater gift of recorded, instrumental artistry in 2014.

Piccinini recalls: 'I was drawn to transcribe and record all the Caprices as a challenge and stimulus for my own development, a path towards pushing the envelope outside my personal comfort zone.'

NICCOLO PAGANINI

ITALY

FLUTE MUSIC

GERMANY