Catchy, straightforward and malleable, Paganini's A-Minor Caprice has for centuries been catnip to composers of variation sets. It was all over the enjoyable first half of Wednesday night's San ...

Get ready for a night of high drama and virtuosic sparkle! CPR Classical presents Rachmaninoff’s "Rhapsody on a Theme of ...

The last of Paganini’s 24 Caprices for solo violin, Op 1, has captured the imagination of many musicians. Paganini himself thought well enough of it to make it the subject of 11 variations and a ...

Conrad Tao performs "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" June 24, 2022 at Brevard Music Center's 2022 season opener. The Brevard Music Center welcomes back music lovers for its 2022 summer season with a ...

Pianist Haochen Zhang will perform Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" with Symphoria at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Crouse Hinds Theater at the John H. Mulroy Civic Center. Zhang is the 2009 ...

KALAMAZOO, MI-- Not enough music for your chosen instrument? Might as well remedy that by putting pen to paper. Trumpeter Brandon Ridenour grew up in Kalamazoo. At 17, he left for Juilliard, and ...

In a 2014 commentary published in The Telegraph, of London, the ever-eloquent Stephen Hough — one of the most celebrated pianists of our age and guest of the Seattle Symphony April 13-15 — addressed ...

The theme and 24 variations are of course based on Paganini's instantly recognisable 24th Caprice In A Minor for solo violin, and the combined violin sections introduced the legendary 1st position ...

Yevgeny Sudbin’s playing has terrific presence in this recording of Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody. The blend of personality and stylistic perception that marks Sudbin’s live performances is also ...

Musicologist Marina Frolova-Walker chooses her favourite recording of Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, a set of dazzling variations for ...

Marking the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff's birth, one of today's most exceptionally brilliant pianists recently visited Thailand to collaborate with the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra in ...