Violin bow-makers are up in arms. The rare wood they have used for 200 years may be banned. For the virtuoso Leonidas Kavakos it's good reason to get strung out, he tells Michael Church ...

Frankel normally plays on an 1819 instrument constructed by Gaetano Vinaccia in Naples, Italy. The Paganini violin was constructed in 1743 by Giuseppe Guarneri, perhaps nearly as well-known as ...

Bows and bow-making are an often overlooked ingredient when talk turns to the finer points of violins, violas and other bowed instruments. The most sought after bows can cost as much as $100,000.

Ultimate violin takes a bow. By Chris Johnston. February 3, 2007 ... (of Jesus). Guarneri's most famous violin, the "Cannon", was played by the 19th-century Italian virtuoso Paganini. The fact ...

And he would play Paganini’s pieces, write articles about him, and was nicknamed "the second Paganini". He wrote incredibly difficult etudes and other things in Paganini’s style, and he even went to ...

Flautist Katherine Bryan was good enough to turn one of Paganini's most popular works into something very special ... and even the complex string-specific performance directions like spiccato (where ...

In tackling Paganini's Caprices for Violin Solo, Op. 1, Szucs revealed a whole range of techniques such as the rapidly ascending scale patterns in double-stops in the first of seven caprices.

Paganini has become centrally important in Czech violin history, though, and Czechia/Bohemia was also important to him, in ways that are sometimes hidden from plain view. To begin with, it was in ...