All Tartini articles
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News
Tartini tones: new research shows differences in old and new instruments
An Italian team has recorded the mysterious ‘third tone’, created when playing a two-note chord, as part of its research
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Review
Bojan Čičić: Pyrotechnia: Fire & Fury from 18th-Century Italy
Deliciously flamboyant and fiery Baroque violin concertos
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Review
Live-streamed concert review: Rachel Podger (violin)
Tim Homfray hears a performance from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on 21 May 2021
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Review
Nils Mönkemeyer: Vivaldi, Rolla, Tartini, Paganini, Sciarrino
Inventive viola arrangements the Red Priest would surely have enjoyed
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Review
Dmitry Sinkovsky, Il Pomo d’Oro: Virtuosissimo
Russian artist meets Italian Baroque and the result has thrilling moments
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Review
Peter Sheppard Skærved: Tartini
Plenty of expressive drama in the conclusion to this ambitious project
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Review
Wandy Tworek: The Danish Violin Wizard
A wonderful historical reminder of a 20th-century Danish whiz
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Review
Michael Barenboim: Sciarrino, Tartini, Berio, Paganini
SCIARRINO Six Caprices; TARTINI Violin Sonata in G minor ‘Devil’s Trill’; BERIO Sequenza VIII; PAGANINI Caprices (selection)
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Focus
Technique: Minna Rose Chung on double stopping and Tartini tones
Using ‘difference tones’ to perfect your intonation when tackling double stopping passagework
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Review
Italian Journey: Works for string orchestra by Bazzini, Ernst, Mascagni, Morricone, Paganini, Respighi and Tartini
The Strad Issue: February 2016 Description: Works old and new that display this young group’s talents Musicians: LGT Young Soloists/Alexander Gilman Composer: Bazzini, Ernst, Mascagni, Morricone, Paganini, Respighi, Tartini This youthful ensemble’s debut disc is well attuned to the ‘easy listening’ classical market. It offers a strange ...
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Review
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons. Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor ‘The Devil’s Trill’. Leclair: Violin Sonata in D major ‘Tambourin’
The Strad Issue: January 2016 Description: A calmer, cooler version of Vivaldi’s seasonal concertos Musicians: James Ehnes (violin/director) Andrew Armstrong (piano) Sydney Symphony Orchestra Composer: Vivaldi, Tartini, Leclair This might be the ideal antidote to Nigel Kennedy’s new, rebooted Four Seasons (see above), with its general disregard, ...
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Review
Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor ‘Devil’s Trill’; Pastorale in A major op.1 no.13. Veracini: Violin Sonatas in G minor op.2 no.5; in D minor op.2 no.12
The Strad Issue: October 2015 Description: Devilish deeds and chromatic caprices from a multinational trio Musicians: Rie Kimura (Baroque violin) Fantasticus: Robert Smith (Baroque cello) Guillermo Brachetta (harpsichord) Composer: Tartini, Veracini Joined by cellist Robert Smith and harpsichordist Guillermo Brachetta from her ensemble Fantasticus, Rie Kimura prepares ...
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Review
Oscar Shumsky: Legendary Treasures. Works by Bach, Beethoven, Buxtehude, Hindemith, Kreisler, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Tartini, Telemann and Wieniawski
The Strad Issue: June 2015 Description: Historic recordings from a great American violinist Musicians: Oscar Shumsky (violin) Nadia Reisenberg, Carroll Hollister, Mario Bernardi, Leo Barkin, George Schick, Earl Wild, Frank Maus (piano) Lois Marshall, Erna Berger (sopranos) Maureen Forrester (contralto) James Melton (tenor) Bach Aria Group, CBC ...
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Article
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond plays the 'Lipinski' Stradivarius
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond discusses and plays selections from Giuseppe Tartini's 'Devil's Trill' Sonata on Tartini's own violin — later to be known as the 1715 'Lipinski' Stradivarius, after Polish violinist Karol Lipinski. The violin was stolen from Almond in an armed robbery ...
