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 ...

Paganini: 24 Caprices, transcribed for guitar by Eliot Fisk (Eliot Fisk, guitar; MusicMasters). Paganini’s fiendishly difficult technical studies were, of course, originally written for violin, but ...

Was Niccolo Paganini — that spectacular violin virtuoso of the early 19th century — the world’s first rock star? The wild hair, the bad-boy mystique, the run-ins with the law, even the rumored devil ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There's more than a little of the devil about Richard Tognetti's playing, so it seems fitting that his celebrated violin was once owned ...

Violinist Yang In-mo on Monday released his first album under the Deutsche Grammophon label. The album is a live recording of a May 3 recital at Kumho Art Hall, where he performed all 24 caprices by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Canada Council for the Arts' musical instrument bank contains more than 20 string instruments totalling over $41 million in value and every three years, musicians compete for the chance to borrow ...