In this video for the LSO, Tamestit talks through the unusual features of the ‘Mahler’ Stradivarius, named in honour of the composer, not because he owned it at any time.
The instrument, on loan to Tamestit from the Habisreutinger Foundation, is thought to be the first viola by Stradivari. Tamestit reveals that it took a long time for him to get used to it and he even contemplated returning it.
Watch: Antoine Tamestit performs Hindemith on the ‘Mahler’ Stradivarius
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Carlos Maria Solare hears the performance of Jörg Widmann and Bruckner at the Berlin Philharmonie on 20 January 2024
Carlos Maria Solare visits Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal for a concert of Mozart, Sainte-Colombe, Kurtág and Martinů on 1 March 2023
In this extract from the July 2019 issue, the violist describes at first struggling to get on with this magnificent and unusual instrument
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