Neither Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2 nor his Paganini Variations are exactly under-recorded, but this disc has a good deal going for it. Anna Vinnitskaya brings to both works a clarity of ...

When it launched last year with an outstanding recording of Shostakovich's opera The Nose, the Mariinsky label seemed as if it was going to make available some genuinely important performances of the ...

(24) Caprices, Movements: No. 5 in A minor Nicolò Paganini, Composer Nemanja Radulovic, Violin Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 Nemanja Radulovic, Violin Nicolò Paganini, Composer Cantabile ...

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, ...

Rachmaninov's piano concerto-esque work was the 1934 equivalent of sampling a pop song. The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is also one of the romantic period's greatest pieces. Had he lived to hear ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer Claudio Abbado, Conductor Mahler Chamber Orchestra Yuja Wang, Piano Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer ...

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 ...

Chinese violinist Zhang Aozhe, 17, takes the top prize at the 58th International Violin Competition "Premio Paganini" in Genoa, Italy, on Oct 26. GIUSY LORELLI/PREMIO PAGANINI At the Carlo Felice ...