James Ehnes on Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1
In this video James Ehnes explains what the Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 means to him, but also why the composer’s other repertoire deserves more attention. Plus, he reveals his greatest passion in life.
James Ehnes on Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1
New Neflix horror film features feuding cellists
Beethoven's viola played in Los Angeles
Paganini's 'Il Cannone' violin played in Columbus, Ohio
PBS NewsHour segment on Italian spruce tonewood forests
Itzhak Perlman plays a traditional Klezmer Nigun
Cellist Audrey Nadeau leaves Carnegie Hall to play for trees
Paganini's violin arrives in Columbus, Ohio
Cello lullaby above the Atlantic with Amit Peled
TwoSet Violin learn how bows are rehaired
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In focus: the 1696 Stradivari 'Archinto' viola
John Dilworth praises the archetypal beauty of Stradivari’s ‘Archinto’ viola, a magical example of form and aesthetic
Paganini's 'Il Cannone' violin played in Columbus, Ohio
This clip from the Columbus Dispatch shows Columbus Symphony concertmaster Joanna Frankel trying out ‘Il Cannone’, Paganini’s favourite violin, during its weeklong stay at the Columbus Museum of Art.
PBS NewsHour segment on Italian spruce tonewood forests
Severe storms last year tore down vast swathes of spruce forest in the Italian Alps, including in the Fiemme valley where conditions favour growth suitable for tonewood.
Jascha Heifetz – champion of modern violins
Dario Sarlo reveals a lesser-known passion of the great violinist, and how it led him to start his own lutherie competition
Paganini's violin arrives in Columbus, Ohio
This clip from WCMH news in Columbus, Ohio, shows ‘Il Cannone’, Paganini’s favourite violin, arriving for a weeklong stay at the Columbus Museum of Art.
Looking after Paganini's 'Il Cannone' violin
Entrusted with the task of conserving one of the world’s most valuable violins, Bruce Carlson has made it easier to play, while taking it closer to how it would have looked to Paganini. In this article first published in 2004, he explains
Reviews
Marais meets Corelli
Playing that is consistently communicative in its intensity in this disc of 17th-century viol music
Edgar Moreau: cello concertos by Offenbach and Friedrich Gulda
Two ebullient concertos fly under the fingers of a true virtuoso
The English Double Bass book: an 'extraordinary achievement'
Benjamin Hebbert takes a closer look at this long-awaited tome by Thomas Martin, Martin Lawrence and George Martin
Inner Rhyme
Vibrant Arabic-poetry-inspired chamber jazz
New Zealand Quartet; Maria Lambros: Brahms
Young quartet bring a youthful spontaneity to Brahms’s string quintets
Tabea Zimmermann; Stéphane Degout: Berlioz
Meditative and majestic forays into Berlioz’s Byronic world
Galleries
Ottmar Hörl and his smiling Beethovens
The German conceptual artist Ottmar Hörl poses next to some of his smiling sculptures representing the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven at Münsterplatz Square in Bonn, western Germany.
In focus: the 1696 Stradivari 'Archinto' viola
John Dilworth praises the archetypal beauty of Stradivari’s ‘Archinto’ viola, a magical example of form and aesthetic
Gallery: A violin made out of shredded money
‘The Value of a Violin’ is on exhibition at the Design Museum Ghent during the Queen Elisabeth competition
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