The 18th-century violin, nicknamed ‘the cannon’ thanks to its powerful sound, is undergoing scientific tests to diagnose the root cause of its brilliance. Paganini’s favourite violin has been X-rayed ...

That’s the image, one that he carefully cultivated himself, and we know much of it to be true. But how that mythology built to a point where even in somewhere like the Czech Republic – where he had by ...

'There has never been an artist with a greater faith in his destiny than Niccolò Paganini'Allegro Films courtesy of The Paganini Institute, Genoa The ultimate showman, Paganini encouraged such rumours ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Broadway would have called him a sockeroo. He would have had a radio spot, performing more astounding feats on the fiddle than Alec Templeton’s on the piano. He would have found a way of getting the ...

One reason that Washington D.C., not otherwise the most fertile ground for culture, has long been one of the greatest chamber music towns in the world was the presence of not one, but two! famous and ...

”Song and Dance,” here through the weekend at the Chicago Theatre, is a musical that takes its title literally. Its first half is all song, or rather a cycle of songs telling the story of Emma, a ...