Water Lily Acoustics PAGANINIANA Ruggiero Ricci Brooks Smith LP NM Audiophile
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Description
• Artist: Ruggiero Ricci (violin), Brooks Smith (piano)
• Title: Paganiniana — The Genoan’s Legacy
• Label: Water Lily Acoustics
• Catalog #: WLA-WS-06
• Format: LP, Stereo
• Genre: Classical
• Country: USA
• Speed: 33⅓ RPM
Description:
Water Lily Acoustics’ celebrated audiophile pressing Paganiniana: The Genoan’s Legacy, featuring Ruggiero Ricci on violin (playing his 1734 Guarneri del Gesù) and Brooks Smith on piano. Recorded May 24–27, 1988 at Christ the King Chapel, St. Anthony’s Seminary, Santa Barbara, CA, by producer/engineer Kavi Alexander. A pure analog recording made with custom-built vacuum-tube electronics — no noise reduction, equalization, compression, or limiting used at any stage.
Side One:
1. La Campanella (Paganini-Liszt-Kochanski) – 4:33
2. Caprice No. 20 (Paganini-Kreisler) – 2:54
3. Variation No. 18 from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Rachmaninoff-Kreisler) – 2:28
4. Paganiniana, Variations 1–7 (Nathan Milstein) – 7:20
Side Two:
1. Three Caprices (Paganini-Szymanowski): No. 20 (D major) 3:15, No. 21 (A major) 2:43, No. 24 (A minor) 8:00
2. Solos from Acts I & II from the operetta “Paganini” (Lehár): Act I – 2:57, Act II – 3:15
Produced and recorded by Kavi Alexander for Water Lily Acoustics; funded by the Conrad-Johnson Endowment for Recorded Music. Dedicated to Guarneri del Gesù.
Condition:
• Vinyl: Ultrasonically cleaned on a Klaudio machine, August 2026. Graded Near Mint — plays with exceptional quiet surfaces befitting an audiophile pressing.
• Housed in a supplied Mobile Fidelity (MoFi) rice-paper inner sleeve for archival protection.
• Jacket: Fine, as shown in photos. A prior owner’s handwritten inventory note (“3X CLEAN / 17 MAY 2016”) appears in the upper left of the back cover, evidencing a documented history of careful stewardship.
• Photos are of the actual item for sale.
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