A meeting of two very different bassists
The American jazz and funk bassist Steve Bailey plays together with double bassist François Rabbath and his pianist son Sylvain Rabbath at Bavarian Bassdays 2018 in Mühldorf/Inn.
A meeting of two very different bassists
Yo-Yo Ma performs in Montréal metro
Azure Quartet: Spiral Sequences by Jack Frerer
Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason: variations on In the Bleak Midwinter
The moment Rostropovich's cello is sold for £1.6 million
Hilary Hahn and TwoSet Violin play Paganini while hoola-hooping
Clara-Jumi Kang, Alessio Bax: Debussy Violin Sonata
Itzhak Perlman performs at Pittsburgh synagogue memorial
Peace Through Music: violinist Hyeong-Joon Won
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra plays items left on trains
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Master stroke: Schilbach varnishing brush
The tapered and split synthetic fibres of this brush are designed to absorb a large volume of oil or spirit varnish, to enable its controlled and uniform application.
All kitted out: violin accessory set
Manufactured in India to Italian designs, these accessory sets comprise four heart-shaped pegs, a decorative end-button, a Guarneri-style chinrest with Hill-style clamps and a Hill-style tailpiece. They are available in ebony and rosewood with a black trim to the tailpiece and black pin collars and pegs, and in boxwood trimmed ...
Firmly fastened: the Schilbach Kevlar tailgut
Using military-grade materials to improve set-up stability
A cut above: Lee Valley stainless steel pocket plane
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, Canadian woodworking firm Lee Valley has produced a limited-edition version of its pocket plane in corrosion-resistant stainless steel and with a nickel-plated lever cap.
In focus: 1764 violin by Giovanni Battista Gabrielli
In this article from the February 2009 issue, Gabriele Rossi Rognoni examines an instrument by probably the most prominent Florentine maker, about whom very little information survives. Photographs by Marco Rabatti, Serge Domingie
Photographing a Stradivarius
In this video from 2013, still life photographer Søren Jonesen photographs the 1714 ‘Yoldi-Moldenhauer’ Stradivari. The photoshoot was organised by Danish high-end digital photography company Phase One working with Andy Lim of Darling Publications, which printed a monograph featuring the photos and history of the instrument.
Reviews
Steven Isserlis; Dénes Várjon: Chopin
Steven Isserlis passionately argues the case for Chopin’s Cello Sonata
Transfigured Night: Alisa Weilerstein, Trondheim Soloists
Beautifully realised programme from the two Viennese schools
Eldbjørg Hemsing: Dvořák Violin Concerto, Suk Fantasy
A splendid combination of purity and sweeping, Heifetz-like intensity
Leila Schayegh; Jan Schultsz: Brahms
Highly sensitive and responsive performances of Brahms’s Violin Sonatas
Danish String Quartet: Prism 1
A multifaceted view of just how many roads lead from Bach
Calidore Quartet: Resilience
Superb young quartet presents a timely and thought-provoking programme
Galleries
In focus: an 1859 violin by Nicolas-François Vuillaume
Roland Baumgartner examines a violin representing a free interpretation of the work of Guarneri ‘del Gesù’, by J.B. Vuillaume’s younger brother [click ‘+’ to zoom]
Gallery: Daniel Müller-Schott performs at German reunification celebrations
These photos were taken at the performance on German Unity Day, 3 October, at Berlin’s Brandeburg Gate
In focus: an 1800 viola by Giovanni Gagliano
Carlo Chiesa takes a look at a viola which makes up in warm and powerful sound what it may lack in luxury materials [click ‘+’ to zoom]
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