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Thank you very very much :) The girl in the last video is Xuefei Yang (her personal web page at http://www.xuefeiyang.com/xuefei.html). She is giving a concert with the HK Phil in early Feb 2008. Her CDs are also readily obtainable here in Hong Kong. As usual, a most excellent blog. OMG that saxophone plays chords!!! Wow, had no idea the sax could do all that. Thanks for sharing this - it is a great display of creative virtuoso sax playing. I especially liked the simulated pizzicatos and the 'double stops'. How'd he do that??! I like the guitarist the best. I searched on youtube and found quite a few guitarists playing the piece. I think the caprice probably translates well to the guitar because Paganini also wrote music for guitar. I found a recording of Yo-Yo Ma playing it on the cello, and, of course, it was great. The worst ones were heavy metal rock, electric guitar, and accordion. I agree with Pauline that the guitar (and perhaps the cello) sounds quite natural with this piece...but I liked the sax rendition precisely because it was so unexpected.