With Peggy Reynolds.
Niccolo Paganini spent nearly 20 years working in his native Italy before he set out on a grand tour of Europe that was to make him a household name. By the time he arrived in Paris in 1831, everyone had heard rumours of how he had sold himself to the devil or murdered his mistress. It was this mysterious figure whom Eugene Delacroix painted in 1833, emerging through candelight playing his violin.

Music in the programme includes:

Paganini Caprice No 24 in A minor - Michael Rabin (violin)

Liszt Transcendental Studies after Paganini: No 3 (La Campanella) - Michael Ponti (piano)

Paganini Le Streghe, Op 8 - Salvatore Accardo (violin), London Philharmonic, conductor Charles Dutoit

Berlioz Harold aux Montagnes (Harold in Italy) - Nobuko Imai (viola), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis