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 ...

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 ...