It takes elements of egotism and daredevil fearlessness to play Niccolo Paganini's 24 terrifyingly difficult solo violin Caprices in one sitting. Friday night at the Romanian Embassy, Florin Croitoru ...

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 ...

The virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini was one of the world’s first performer idols. With his dramatic sense of fashion, fondness for gambling and women, and programs of pieces that would have left ...

Bernard Rose, who wrote and directed the steamy 1994 Beethoven biography “Immortal Beloved,” wrote and directed this even steamier portrait of the bad-boy violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, played by ...