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 ...

To take the full measure of a violin soloist, you have to hear them play the unaccompanied Suites by J.S. Bach and a few of the Caprices by the first violin superstar, Nicolò Paganini.

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 ...

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 ...

Some thought he was a metaphorical musical God, others thought he literally got his virtuosity from a deal with the Devil. But what was the real story behind Niccolò Paganini’s genius? Born on 27 ...

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 ...

Guitarist Eliot Fisk plays the "Capriccio No. 11" from the collection of 24 Caprices by Nicolo Paganini.