Before we hear Barnabas Kelemen perform two Paganini Caprices for Violin in the NPR studios, we get a taste of a Paganini arrangement for violin and piano. Violinist Ingolf Turban and pianist Jascha ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Rachmaninov's piano concerto-esque work was the 1934 equivalent of sampling a pop song. The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is also one of the romantic period's greatest pieces. Had he lived to hear ...
The violinist joins the Gramophone Podcast to talk about her new album on Deutsche Grammophon For this week's Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford talks to violinist María Dueñas about her ...