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 ...

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 ...

What: Violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs all 24 caprices composed by Niccolo Paganini, as part of the Northwest Bach Festival When: Festival artistic director Zuill Bailey will conduct Concert ...

When his fans asked him whether he was trained as a classical musician, Pedro responded with this epic video. Saxophonist Pedro Rafael Garcia Moreno, otherwise known as Pedrosaxo, has absolutely ...

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 ...

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 ...

It takes a lot of determination to put all 24 Paganini Caprices for Solo Violin on a concert program. But no one ever said Rachel Barton Pine lacked determination. She began conquering her instrument ...

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 ...