The violin legend explains holding the violin from the first steps: 'When we think of holding an object we thinking of holding fast to it, nothing can escape, but that is a completely false conception of holding the violin. In holding the violin we must not allow such gripping to take place: it must be about balance and flexibility.'
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Students of the specialist music school receive high marks in their A-level results
The violinist plays Paganini’s Caprice No.24 with pianist Adolph Baller in this video recorded in 1947. Read: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin’s first appearance in The Strad, aged 10 Watch: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin on the importance of practice Watch: Great violinists of the 20th century
The writer, broadcaster and Menuhin biographer Humphrey Burton remembers meeting Yehudi for the first time in 1959
The cellist appears alongside the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and its music director Stuart Malina
Philharmonia musicians perform one of Finland’s most popular Christmas carols, Jean Sibelius’s Julvisa
Double bassist Théotime Voisin and pianist Maurice van Schoonhoven perform an arrangement of the popular opera overture in a tribute to the bel canto tradition
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