The Arts Desk

First Person: Pavel Šporcl on Paganini and the Czech violin tradition

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 ...
Lawrence Journal-World

Regina Carter becomes first black — and nonclassical artist — to play Paganini’s violin

New York? When Regina Carter’s pianist suggested the jazz musician play Paganini’s world-famous violin — so valuable that it’s kept under lock and key in Italy — she figured it would be a difficult ...
PBS

Why this Italian violin travels with its own security

In 2015, a delegation of city leaders from Columbus, Ohio, went to Italy's Genoa, where they heard a performance of the famed Paganini violin. The contingent spent the next four years working to ...
Classic FM

This visualisation of Liszt's La Campanella is incredibly hypnotic

Turns out, this étude looks as beautiful as it sounds Liszt's short piano piece ‘La Campanella’ takes a melody from Paganini's Second Violin Concerto. And with that sort of ancestry, it's no surprise ...