Performance

Works by Paganini

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Works by Niccolò Paganini at David Geffen Hall place the violin’s early-19th-century cult of virtuosity under concert-hall light. In an Artist Spotlight, Augustin Hadelich appears with the New York Philharmonic in a program that also moves through Telemann and J. S. Bach, setting Paganini’s showpiece writing against older models of line and counterpoint. Paganini has had a long New York performance history since the city’s first major orchestral era, shaping local expectations of what “violin technique” means. The music matters because it turns difficulty into structure, not decoration.