It's probably no surprise that Niccolo Paganini loved food, because as a youngster he was deprived of it. When he was five, he began to play the mandolin; two years later he switched to violin, all ...
Rising Star pianist Amiri Harewood plays the 18th variation of Sergei Rachmaninov's texturally-rich romantic work, 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini' arranged by Iain Farrington. Set to an inversion of ...
With permission from masters such as Yehudi Menuhin, Pablo Sarasate, Joseph Joachim, Eugène Ysaÿe, and perhaps a more modern one—let’s say Jascha Heifetz or Itzhak Perlman—there is one musician who is ...
Host Scott Yoo meets with the great-great-great grandson of Niccolò Paganini to discuss the famed virtuoso’s life. Behind the Scenes with Cirque du Soleil's Band Go behind the scenes of Cirque du ...
A century before bluesman Robert Johnson’s mythical confrontation at a Mississippi crossroads, another prodigious musical talent was believed to have struck a deal with the devil: Niccolo Paganini, ...
The notion of bridging the realms of classical music and jazz is not a particularly new one, but attempts to forge a true synthesis, rather than a simple admixture, haven't been particularly ...
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 ...
'There has never been an artist with a greater faith in his destiny than Niccolò Paganini' Film is an art of its own with its own disciplines and imperatives “I thought for about four seconds,” ...