Was Niccolo Paganini — that spectacular violin virtuoso of the early 19th century — the world’s first rock star? The wild hair, the bad-boy mystique, the run-ins with the law, even the rumored devil ...
Paganini: 24 Caprices, transcribed for guitar by Eliot Fisk (Eliot Fisk, guitar; MusicMasters). Paganini’s fiendishly difficult technical studies were, of course, originally written for violin, but ...
The traditional assumption is that the Paganini Caprices are mere tests of technical virtuosity, to be studied as practice pieces or used as encores. But the real trick is to project the music behind ...