Some of the greatest pieces of classical music ever written for instrumental soloists were, unsurprisingly, composed by people who could play that very instrument themselves. Rachmaninov and Brahms, ...

British classical guitarist Nicola Hall took upon herself the daunting task of adapting Nicolo Paganini's Violin Concerto in B-minor for the guitar. Judging from the results, she was clearly up to the ...

Paganini's 1734 Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin is mostly kept under lock and key, a priceless artefact of one of the world's greatest performers. The fact that Francesca Dego was given permission to ...

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 ...

Back in the late 1820s, Paganini performed in Prague several times and, we read, the audiences got smaller and smaller – it definitely was not a case of Paganini-mania, more of the Czech public being ...