June 2010
Letter from Oslo: Forces of nature
Thursday, 20 May 2010
An Icelandic eruption might have caused disruption to this year’s Menuhin Competition, as Ariane Todes discovered, but it couldn’t suppress the talent...
Market Watch: Spring awakening
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Healthy takings and some surprisingly lively bidding at the London auctions in March reflected fresh optimism in the market, as Caroline Gill reports
‘The day I do crossover please shoot me'
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Natalie Clein has been uncompromising about artistic integrity since first emerging on to the scene as a teenager. The cellist tells Nick Shave how he...
Displayed in Taiwan
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Asian industrial conglomerate Chi-Mei has one of the world’s great violin collections. In its 20th anniversary year, David Monson finds out how the in...
Great violinists: Arthur Grumiaux
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Julian Haylock examines a performer whose aristocratic poise and purity of tone combined to perfection in Bach and Mozart
Venezuela diary
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Violinist Levon Chilingirian shares his memories of the Chilingirian Quartet's visit to Venezuela to help establish a chamber music programme as part ...
Flawed but adored
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Schumann’s chamber music has historically attracted criticism, but it holds great beauty and emotional sincerity for performers and listeners alike. C...
New Look? Old Look?
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Should new instruments look their age? Drawing comparisons with other art forms, Joseph Curtin considers whether makers should artificially age their ...
Lower your voice!
Thursday, 20 May 2010
This month’s free sheet music is a viola transcription of the Wieniawski Légende. Here, its arranger Jerzy Kosmala exposes the secrets of producing a ...
Trade Secrets: Brescian-type purfling, part 1:
purfling the edges
Thursday, 20 May 2010
By Helen Michetschläger, instrument maker based in Sale, UK
Masterclass: Using classical music in jazz improvisation
Thursday, 20 May 2010
By John Goldsby, Bassist with the WDR Big Band in Cologne, Germany, and author of Jazz Bowing Techniques for the Improving Bassist and The Jazz Bass B...
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