Once considered borderline-unplayable, Paganini’s 24 solo violin Caprices have in the past half century become essential learning for the aspiring virtuoso. During the 1960s, Ruggiero Ricci (Decca) ...

October 30, 2017, 7:42 PM · The reason why violinist Endre Granat decided to create his own edition of the 24 Caprices by Niccolo Paganini was very simple: "Every time I had a student come and play a ...

After posting the interview with Ilya Gringolts about the Paganini Caprices this week, I received an e-mail from a longtime V.commie: I had a typo. Plus some personal advice, "Start practicing the ...

Classical IPR’s New Release of the Week is the 35th album by violinist Rachel Barton Pine. The centerpiece of the album, “Bel Canto Paganini,” is Pine’s performance of Niccolò Paganini’s 24 caprices ...

Schumann may have been a great admirer of Paganini, but he surely did the Caprices no favours by providing a piano accompaniment. Paganini’s technical wizardry and harmonic subtlety is undermined and ...

Here are two versions of showpieces by Paganini (1782-1840), one pure, one adulterated. German superstar Julia Fischer gives a giddily virtuosic account of the 24 caprices for solo violin, making a ...

The virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini was one of the world’s first performer idols. With his dramatic sense of fashion, fondness for gambling and women, and programs of pieces that would have left ...

In 1917 Szymanowski and his family left Tymoszówka and moved to Elisavetgrad, where he composed as well as playing a few concerts of his own music and accompanying violinist Wiktor Goldfeld. It was ...

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