Excerpted from the magazine for Billboard.com. By Billboard Staff There is a good reason why Regina Carter is pictured inside her latest release holding a violin, flanked by two somber, uniformed ...

'Il Cannone' was Italian composer and violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini's favourite The world's most famous violin, "Il Cannone", made in 1743 and played by the great virtuoso Niccolo Paganini, being ...

For her new album, Francesca Dego has recorded a fascinating programme which pays homage to Niccolò Paganini – recorded on Paganini's own (and rarely played) violin, ‘Il Cannone’. In the latest ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have carried out X-ray studies on the iconic violin that was crafted in 1743 (courtesy: ESRF/Pierre Jayet) An almost 300-year-old violin that was played by the great virtuoso Niccolò ...

For Regina Carter, it was the chance of a lifetime. Carter, a classically trained jazz violinist, is one of the few people in the world who have been allowed to play a closely guarded violin ...

Nearly one month after Zhang Aozhe bagged the gold at the 58th International Violin Competition Premio Paganini, the ...

Lü’s performance brought back generational memories of many Asian-American and Chinese audience members who resonated with ...