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Violin Virtuosos: From Paganini to the 21st Century by Henry Roth
£40.00
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Renowned critic Henry Roth brings his formidable knowledge and enthusiasm to bear on some of the greatest violinists in history. Paganini, Thibaud and Huberman rub shoulders with the likes of Isaac Stern and Itzhak Perlman in his comprehensive survey, which also provides an unusual history of the instrument itself. Paperback. 392pp.
California Classics Books; First Printing edition (March 1997)
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An Introduction to the Old Italian Violins (simplified mandarin)
£170.00
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The book offers an overview of 300 years of violin history. Exploring the historical circumstances in Northern Italy, namely the city of Cremona, where the violin originated, it takes the reader from Andrea Amati's workshop to those of the most famous Cremonese violin makers such as Antonio Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesù and Carlo Bergonzi. From there violin making spread across other Italian and European cities.
Illustrated with more than 600 pictures of instruments, the book is a unique guide to the complex world of violin family instruments; it provides valuable advice on how to choose the best violin, and how to take care of it.
Antonio Stradivari, His Life and Work (Dover Books on Music)
£12.95
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Before the Chinrest: A Violinist’s Guide to the Mysteries of Pre-Chinrest Technique and Style (Publications of the Early Music Institute)
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Cremona: An Account of the Italian Violin-Makers and Their Instruments (Classic Reprint)
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I Segreti di Sgarabotto
£275.00
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LIMITED EDITION
‘I Segreti di Sgarabotto’
Edizioni Scrollavezza & Zanrè, edited by Andrea Zanrè
Read the review, The Strad, February 2020
Jean Pierre Marie Persoit: His Life and Work, by Paul Childs
£105.00
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Listening through the lens by Christopher Nupen (with sampler DVD)
£30.00
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The official autobiography from BAFTA award-winning film maker, Christopher Nupen, director of The Trout - one of the most watched classical music films.
Foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy
Read the review, The Strad, January 2020
Luigi Boccherini – Musica Amorosa by Babette Kaiserkern
£40.00
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The life and works of composer and cellist Luigi Boccherini are explored in this comprehensive new biography. He was highly regarded throughout Europe during his lifetime and the author of around 500 compositions, including symphonies, chamber music and vocal works as well as sonatas and concertos for the cello.
Written by Babette Kaiserkern; Foreword by Steven Isserlis; Translated by Rhona Brose.
My Viola and I by Lionel Tertis
£19.95
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Questionario Renzo Bacchetta del 1936
£125.00
Sold by: Luca Bastiani
59 Italian Luthiers Tell Their Story Through the Answers to the 1936 Renzo Bacchetta Survey, where they started to learn their craft and how they learned it.
Including:
Historical introduction
Complete transcriptions of the surveys
Complete translations of the surveys in English
43 labels conserved in the Fondo Renzo Bacchetta
59 pages of photographic details of the original
documents showing the handwriting
and signature of the maker
Hard cover 238 pages
Published in 2021, presented online with the patronage of the state library of Cremona.
Price excluding VAT where present and import taxes.
Read the review in The Strad, January 2020
Stradivari’s Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
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The Amadeus Book of the Violin: Construction, History, and Music
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This encyclopedia of the violin covers the mechanics of its construction through its history and evolution to its literature and performing traditions, with details and anecdotes. From the great violin makers of Cremona to the influence of key composers and virtuosos on the violin's development, every facet of the subject is exposed.
ISBN-10: 1574670387
ISBN-13: 978-1574670387
The Bowmakers of the Peccatte Family, by Paul Childs
£199.00
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The Fulton Collection: A Guided Tour by David Fulton
£120.00
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The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family, 1626-1762 (Dover Books on Music)
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Valentin Berlinsky – A Quartet for Life by Maria Matalaev
£19.95
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The compiled memoirs of Valentin Berlinsky, cellist with the Borodin Quartet for more than six decades.
Foreword by Steven Isserlis
Read the review, The Strad, June 2019
Violin & Viola by Yehudi Menuhin and William Primrose
£19.95
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