Last April the notorious volcanic ash cloud prevented Boris Berezovsky travelling to Dublin for a performance of Brahms's Second Piano Concerto with the NSO, and Finghin Collins stepped ably into the ...

The violinist Nicolo Paganini set the standard for instrumental virtuosity in the early 19th century. Many composers have been inspired by his music to create devilishly hard pieces of their own.

Garrick Ohlsson includes six sets of Brahms's variations in his survey, though only two of them, the Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op 24, and the Paganini Variations, Op 35, are well ...

Paganini via BrahmsA gold medalist from the last Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Olga Kern, plays Book Two of Brahms' Variations on a theme by Paganini. The theme is Paganini's Caprice No ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Italian pianist Carlo Grante will present the ...

For a performance segment on Houston Public Radio's daily arts show, The Front Row, pianist Soyoon Lee plays Brahms's Paganini Variations, Op. 35, Book 1, at the Steinway in Houston Public Media's ...

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(Earl Wild, piano; Vanguard-Cardinal VCS-10006). Some highly musical razzle-dazzle by Wild in the Paganini Variations; the rest of the record seems pianistically tame by comparison.