For me the litmus test with any recording of Paganini’s mighty ‘24’ is the ‘Trill’ Caprice (No 6), where a mournful melody dominates one line with a tremolo shimmering away on another. Given 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 ...

Only a few months after James Ehnes’s second recording of the Caprices, here comes another top-class account. Julia Fischer certainly has the technical equipment for this challenging music: only in ...

The leading violin prodigy of the 1950s and ‘60s, the New York-born Michael Rabin recorded Niccolo’ Paganini’s virtuosic and daunting 24 Caprices in 1958, when he was 22. This document captures ...

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 ...