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The Bach Cello Suites

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Author : Steven Isserlis
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571366260
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Bach Cello Suites written by Steven Isserlis and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites from internationally-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis. 'Isserlis is the master of the material, yet always able to make it accessible . . . It is an absolute treat to be led to this sublime music by such an ethusiastic expert.' MICHAEL PALIN 'The book I've always wanted: an accessible, eloquent guide to the world's greatest - and maybe most elusive - pieces of music. And written by the man I'd want to tell me about it. This is such a delight.' DERREN BROWN 'Illuminating.' OBSERVER 'Striking.' THE SPECTATOR Bach's six Cello Suites are among the most cherished of all the works in the classical music literature. Shrouded in mystery - they were largely unknown for some two hundred years after their composition - they have acquired a magical aura which continues to attract and fascinate audiences the world over. To cellists they represent a musical bible, to listeners, scarcely less. Through what are on the surface simple dance suites, Bach takes us on a spiritual journey like no other, leading us from joy to tragedy, concluding in jubilation, even triumph. Award-winning international cellist Steven Isserlis, whose recent recording of the Suites met with the highest critical acclaim, goes deep into that emotional journey, bringing to bear all his many years' experience of performing the Suites. His book is intended as a rewarding companion for all music lovers, ranging from the casual listener to the performing musician. By offering his own very personal observations of the music, Isserlis's aim is to take the reader further into the world of the Suites in order to enhance the experience of hearing some of the greatest works ever composed. Praise for Steven Isserlis' BACH: THE CELLO SUITES 'The most wonderful cello-playing, surely among the most consistently beautiful to have been heard in this demanding music.' GRAMOPHONE 'Isserlis has done the impossible. He has given the listener something new, and indeed something outstandingly good . . . This recording can sit proudly on the shelf alongside the great recordings of Casals and Rostropovich. In fact, I may find myself picking it up as the favourite.' BBC RADIO 3

Violin Technique in Practice

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Author : Mary Cohen
Publisher : Faber Music Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0571592023
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book Violin Technique in Practice written by Mary Cohen and published by Faber Music Ltd. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full eBook version of Violin Technique in Practice in fixed-layout format, with downloadable audio. Violin Technique in Practice is an innovative approach to violin technique by Mary Cohen, developed from her unique 'weightless balance' methodology. Concise exercises are structured into sets that cover all aspects of technique alongside the author's expert advice guiding you through like a personal trainer. This book will develop a relaxed, secure technique and increase confidence in every part of the instrument - without the need to spend hours practising. It has been written with the needs of advanced students, teachers and professional players in mind, although the early sets are also ideal for use with students at late-intermediate level.

Mstislav Rostropovich

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Author : Elizabeth Wilson
Publisher : Faber & Faber Classical Music & Dance
ISBN 13 : 9780571363360
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Mstislav Rostropovich written by Elizabeth Wilson and published by Faber & Faber Classical Music & Dance. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the seminal work on one of the world's most celebrated cellists, Msitislav Rostropovich. Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007), internationally recognised as one of the world's finest cellists and musicians, always maintained that teaching is an important responsibility for great artists. Before his emigration in 1974 from Russia to the West, Rostropovich taught several generations of the brightest Russian talents - as Professor of the Moscow Conservatoire - for twenty-five years. His students included such artists as Jacqueline de Pr , Natalya Gutman, Karine Georgian and many others. Within these pages, Elizabeth Wilson vividly charts Rostropovich's musical development and the pivotal points in his career. Drawing from her own vivid reminiscences and those of former students, documents from the Moscow Conservatoire, and extensive interviews with Rostropovich himself, Wilson defines the philosophy behind his teaching and vividly recaptures the atmosphere of the Conservatoire and Moscow's musical life. This paperback edition includes a new introduction and epilogue by the author.

Lev's Violin

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Author : Helena Attlee
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241402565
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Lev's Violin written by Helena Attlee and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* 'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into the heart of music-making' Deborah Moggach From the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is told that it is an Italian instrument, named after its former Russian owner. Eager to discover all she can about its ancestry and the stories contained within its delicate wooden body, she sets out for Cremona, birthplace of the Italian violin. This is the beginning of a beguiling journey whose end she could never have anticipated. Making its way from dusty workshops, through Alpine forests, cool Venetian churches, glittering Florentine courts, and far-flung Russian flea markets, Lev's Violin takes us from the heart of Italian culture to its very furthest reaches. Its story of luthiers and scientists, princes and orphans, musicians, composers, travellers and raconteurs swells to a poignant meditation on the power of objects, stories and music to shape individual lives and to craft entire cultures.

Violin Varnish

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Author : Koen Padding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993224140
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (241 download)

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The Viola d’Amore

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Author : Rachael Durkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429783655
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book The Viola d’Amore written by Rachael Durkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d’amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings. Composers like Bach made use of the viola d’amore for its particular sound, but the instrument subsequently fell out of fashion amid orchestral standardisation, only to see a revival as interest in early music and historical performance grew. Drawing on literary accounts, iconography, and surviving instruments, this study examines the origins and development of this eye-catching string instrument in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It explores the rich variation of designs displayed in extant viola d’amore specimens, both as originally constructed and as a result of conversion and repair. The viola d’amore is then set into the wider context of Elizabethan England’s development of instruments with wire strings, and its legacy in the form of the baryton which emerged in the early seventeenth century, followed by a look at the viola d’amore’s own nomenclatorial and organological influence. The book closes with a discussion of the viola d’amore’s revival, and its use and manufacture today. Offering insights for organological research and historical performance practice, this study enhances our knowledge of both the viola d’amore and its wider family of instruments.

The World of Music According to Starker

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Author : Janos Starker
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253344526
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book The World of Music According to Starker written by Janos Starker and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Few cello players currently before the public have enjoyed the kind of international success in all conceivable musical career roles as Janos Starker. In his lifetime, Starker has gained renown as teacher, soloist and orchestra player." --Chicago Tribune "Starker . . .remains one of the wonders of the musical world, an artist who finds innumerable ways to shape and color lines." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "Starker is not just a cellist. He is widely recognized as one of the finest of the last 50 years." --Indianapolis Star "Starker emerges here as the rare artist who respects the past but lives enthusiastically in the present. . . Essential. All readers; all levels." --Choice Janos Starker is universally acknowledged as one of the world's great musicians. Known for a flawless technique paired with expressive playing and interpretation, the Hungarian-born cellist is arguably also the premier teacher of his instrument in our time. String players flock to his masterclasses from all over the world, and cellists compete vigorously to study under him at the Indiana University School of Music. More than the consummate musician, however, Starker is also a raconteur and writer, occasionally quirky and droll, always witty and with a pointed opinion to share. The World of Music According to Starker is a colorful autobiography spanning the author's fascinating life. From his early musical education during World War II in Hungary, to his world tours, educational philosophy, and recording and pedagogical legacy, Starker takes the reader on a riveting, entertaining, and informative journey. Included in the book are several of Starker's short stories and commentaries on world events, academia, and--of course--music that have appeared in newspapers, music periodicals, and trade magazines. Also includes a bonus CD recording of Starker's last public recital, which is unavailable commercially and includes his only recording of the Strauss Sonata in F, Opus 6. Included on the CD: Richard Strauss, Sonata in F, Opus 6 Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata in C major, Opus 102 no. 1 Johannes Brahms, Sonata in E minor, Opus 38 Franz Schubert, Sonatina in D, Opus 137 no. 1 (Starker edition)

The Missing Strad

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Author : Gerald Gaul
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039108210
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Missing Strad written by Gerald Gaul and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pay attention to that violin you used in high school. Look closely at the next violin you see at a garage sale. It might be worth millions of dollars. The greatest violin ever made is not in a museum. It might be in your violin case because it was involved in a perfect forgery more than a century ago. No one noticed when the criminal got rid of the evidence by passing it on to an unsuspecting customer. A witness is now ready to tell you the truth from beyond the grave, but only if you read the story of his famous father, the diseased and demonically possessed Niccolò Paganini. Enter a world of murders, madness, creepy love affairs, strange historical objects, awkward musical performances, extremely valuable animal intestines, large quantities of gold . . . and a homeless decaying corpse.

The English Double Bass

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Author : Thomas Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781916405301
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The English Double Bass written by Thomas Martin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Strad

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strad written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Valentin Berlinsky

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Author : Maria Matalaev
Publisher : Kahn & Averill
ISBN 13 : 9780995757400
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Valentin Berlinsky written by Maria Matalaev and published by Kahn & Averill. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valentin Berlinsky (1925-2008), was a founding member of the Borodin Quartet and its cellist and mainstay for more than six decades. A proud Russian but also a man of compromise, his was a life lived for and through the Borodin Quartet. This book tells his story in his own words, lovingly compiled and edited by his grand-daughter, Maria Matalaev, from his diaries, correspondence and interviews, and his accounts of his close friendships with the likes of Shostakovich and Richter, Rostropovich and Oistrakh. Supplemented by tributes from family and friends, as well as an impressive annexure giving every performance, broadcast and recording made by the Borodin Quartet, this book constitutes one of the most revealing chronicles of Soviet and post-Soviet Russian musical life. In 2005, at the celebrations for both his 80th birthday and the 60th anniversary of the Borodin Quartet, Valentin Berlinsky sat down at a table with his students and said: 'My dears, please, keep going: never leave Russia!'

Gone

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Author : Min Kym
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0451496078
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Gone written by Min Kym and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off -- and who discovers, beyond the violin, the music of her own voice Her first violin was tiny, harsh, factory-made; her first piece was “Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star.” But from the very beginning, Min Kym knew that music was the element in which she could swim and dive and soar. At seven years old, she was a prodigy, the youngest ever student at the famed Purcell School. At eleven, she won her first international prize; at eighteen, violinist great Ruggiero Ricci called her “the most talented violinist I’ve ever taught.” And at twenty-one, she found “the one,” the violin she would play as a soloist: a rare 1696 Stradivarius. Her career took off. She recorded the Brahms concerto and a world tour was planned. Then, in a London café, her violin was stolen. She felt as though she had lost her soulmate, and with it her sense of who she was. Overnight she became unable to play or function, stunned into silence. In this lucid and transfixing memoir, Kym reckons with the space left by her violin’s absence. She sees with new eyes her past as a child prodigy, with its isolation and crushing expectations; her combustible relationships with teachers and with a domineering boyfriend; and her navigation of two very different worlds, her traditional Korean family and her music. And in the stark yet clarifying light of her loss, she rediscovers her voice and herself.

The Secrets of Stradivari

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Author : Simone F. Sacconi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secrets of Stradivari written by Simone F. Sacconi and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beethoven's String Quartet in B Flat Major, Op. 130

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Author : Hans Keller
Publisher : Hans Keller Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780993198366
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's String Quartet in B Flat Major, Op. 130 written by Hans Keller and published by Hans Keller Archive. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [V.1] Four lectures -- [v.2] Supplementary scores.

Violinworks Book 1 + CD

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Author : Ros Stephen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780193402676
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Violinworks Book 1 + CD written by Ros Stephen and published by . This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Volinworks, in two volumes, is a comprehensive method for the adult beginner, taking students carefully from the very first steps to around Grade 3 standard. The approach suits self-taught beginners as well as those who have teachers, and emphasizes the importance of good habits from day one, of using your ear, and of always aiming for the best sound. Each volume contains a wide selection of repertoire, plus detailed descriptions and photos to demonstrate correct playing positions. The accompanying CD includes play-along tracks for all pieces, with piano, string quartet, or band backings, plus aural exercises and downloadable PDFs of piano accompaniments. There are supporting video clips and additional resources on a dedicated website, making Violinworks a complete resource for all new learners."--Publisher's description.

And Do You Also Play the Violin?

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Author : Carl F. Flesch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And Do You Also Play the Violin? written by Carl F. Flesch and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl F. Flesch grew up in Berlin surrounded by some of the most famous musicians of the day. This is his account of the men and women behind the famous names. Carl F. Flesch is the son of the famous German violinist Carl Flesch [1873-1944] and grew up in the Berlin of the 1920s and `30s. He thus came into almost daily contact with some of the foremost musicians of the century - Furtwängler, Kreisler, Schnabel, Heifetz, Thibaud - including, of course, his father's pupils - Rostal, Haendel, Neveu, and many others. `And do you also play the violin?' was a question he was frequently asked as he grew up, and it explains his intention in writing this book: he had, in his words, `a ringside seat' to observe these musicians from close quarters and writes about the men and women behind the famous names; examining, often with some humour, the relationship between teacher and pupil, the pressure on public performers, life as the child of a famous parent, and the effect on German musical life of the Nazis' accession to power.

The Strad Directory

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Strad Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: