Merchant then swapped the broken bow for one from the second violin desk. While a flash of panic seemed to appear on some of the musicians’ faces as they searched to find their place in their sheet ...

These pieces of music are all terrifyingly ambitious and virtuosic – and they might just make your fingers bleed. Here are the most difficult pieces ever written for the violin. Looking for some ...

When composers are their own performers, as in the violin works of Paganini, Laurie Anderson and Leroy Jenkins, music becomes a self-portrait in motion. Secluded in his Brooklyn apartment since ...