I have never heard anyone play Caprice No5 to a decent standard. Ole Yogie J. Marmalade had a crack at it. He also did a track called 'trilogy suite' on one of his early albums 'Trilogy' which has an openning very similar to the openning of this caprice.
Elliot Fisk did it on classical, guitar which was quite something, but sounds sloppy when compared to the violin version.
I attempted this peice myself many years ago, but gave up as there were more important things in life. Not to mention more interesting things to play. Yes there are a lot of notes played pretty quickly, but musically it is not that interesting. Check out Mozart's Divertimento in D major (K136). There are several parts to choose from in this peice, and they are all wonderful to play (and sound great on electric guitar).
If you go to my website and hit the downloads link you will find a fair chunk of this peice (Cap No.5) transcribed for guitar.
http://www.iankirwan.net
Cheers
Ian
