One of the recordings that launched Canadian James Ehnes's international career was his dazzling account of the 24 Paganini Caprices, released by Telarc in 1995. These pinnacles of violinistic ...

Flautist Katherine Bryan was good enough to turn one of Paganini's most popular works into something very special... for the wrong instrument. Paganini was known for his legendary skills on the violin ...

Was Niccolo Paganini — that spectacular violin virtuoso of the early 19th century — the world’s first rock star? The wild hair, the bad-boy mystique, the run-ins with the law, even the rumored devil ...

Columbus native and world-famous lutenist Paul O'Dette will be featured on this week's episode of Fretworks. English guitarist Nicola Hall will begin the next Fretworks program on Classical 101 with a ...

The traditional assumption is that the Paganini Caprices are mere tests of technical virtuosity, to be studied as practice pieces or used as encores. But the real trick is to project the music behind ...

Violinist Yang In-mo expressed confidence in performing Niccolo Paganini’s 24 caprices for solo violin -- notorious for their difficulty -- during a showcase at Kumho Art Hall in Seoul on Monday. “I ...

Today's Video of the Day is a performance of Paganini's Caprice No.24 in A minor by violinist Francesca Dego, recorded at ConcertLab, to celebrate the week of Paganini's birth. Dego performed on a ...

There's more than a little of the devil about Richard Tognetti's playing, so it seems fitting that his celebrated violin was once owned and played by the legendary Paganini himself. Thrilling: Richard ...