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‘A Violin By Antonio Stradivari 1724’ limited edition MONOGRAPH
£50.00 – £90.00
Sold by: Desmond Cecil
A Life In Music, by György Pauk
£15.00
Sold by: GPPublications
Over the course of more than 50 years, György Pauk became an internationally acclaimed concert violinist, appearing worldwide with the greatest orchestras and conductors, and making countless broadcasts and recordings.
Read the review, The Strad September 2021
An Introduction to the Old Italian Violins (simplified mandarin)
£170.00
Sold by: BEARES PUBLISHING
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.
Antonius Stradivarius Volumes I-VIII (Edited by Jost Thöne)
£3,950.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
This eight volume Library Edition is limited to 2.000 copies. Complete with slipcase and DVD.
“Taken together, these eight volumes are a massive achievement, a substantial reset of the standards and quality of documentation, and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the work of the greatest violin maker who ever lived. This is above all a brave project, given the value and importance of these instruments and their often sensitive histories and attributions.”
John Dilworth, The Strad March 2017
Antonius Stradivarius Volumes I-VIII (Edited by Jost Thöne) – De Luxe Edition
£17,457.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
This beautiful De Luxe Edition is an investment of a lifetime. Limited to 100 copies, it is leather-bound with gilt edges; the volumes are individually numbered and registered.
“Taken together, these eight volumes are a massive achievement, a substantial reset of the standards and quality of documentation, and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the work of the greatest violin maker who ever lived. This is above all a brave project, given the value and importance of these instruments and their often sensitive histories and attributions.”
John Dilworth, The Strad March 2017
Contemporary Violin Makers
£325.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
FÜSSEN LUTE AND VIOLIN MAKING by Josef Focht, Klaus Martius, Thomas Riedmiller
£60.00
Sold by: Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag
A captivating book with excellent reviews set in the Early Modern Era, when lute making in Füssen played a decisive role in influencing the production of stringed instruments in larger parts of Europe. This was possible because town of Füssen settled on one of the most important trading routes across the Alps. The town had access to valuable and unusual wood types on the northern edge of the Alps for which instrument makers gravitated to capture the heart of their sounds.
Read the review, The Strad, July 2019
I Segreti di Sgarabotto
£275.00
Sold by: Scrollavezza & Zanrè
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‘I Segreti di Sgarabotto’
Edizioni Scrollavezza & Zanrè, edited by Andrea Zanrè
Read the review, The Strad, February 2020
Italian and French Violin Makers, Volume I-IV
£1,275.00 – £2,245.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
Jean Baptiste Vuillaume
£230.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
Listening through the lens by Christopher Nupen (with sampler DVD)
£30.00
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
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
The Essential Handbook for Violinists’ by Rebecca Houghton
£20.00
Sold by: Viva Violins
The Fulton Collection: A Guided Tour by David Fulton
£120.00
Sold by: The Fulton Collection
The Golden Age of Violin Making in Spain
£485.00
Sold by: Tritó Edicions
The Heifetz Scale Book for Violin
£16.16
Sold by: Amazon
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The Violin in 5ths – Developing Intonation and Sound
£29.99
Sold by: BEARES PUBLISHING
Heifetz, Oistrakh, Stern, Menuhin, Milstein, Szeryng, Ricci, Rabin...Their innate talent and outstanding skills made violin mastery seem natural and easy. As a young man, British violinist, concertmaster and Royal Academy of Music professor Rodney Friend had the privilege to collaborate with many of the virtuosos. During these encounters he observed the simplicity of their practice patterns and a tendency towards effortless posture and natural hand freedom. These observations became the cornerstones of a teaching method that he has developed and perfected over the past decades.
Read the review, The Strad, July 2019
Valentin Berlinsky – A Quartet for Life by Maria Matalaev
£19.95
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
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
Sold by: Kahn & Averill
Violin and Bow Makers, Volume 1
£40.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
VIOLIN MAKERS. THE RENAISSANCE OF ITALIAN LUTHERIE
£45.00
Sold by: Scrollavezza & Zanrè
W.E. Hill & Sons Violin Makers 1880-1936, by John Basford and Tim Toft
£95.00 – £275.00
Sold by: Tim Toft Fine Violins
W.E. Hill and Sons was Britain’s most important violin dealership in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and, during this period, became renowned throughout the world for its expertise in instrument identification and repair. This new book gives a clear photographic and documentary record of instrument making at W.E Hill and Sons, from its inception in the early 1880s to 1936, when the first phase of production ended and the last instrument from that first phase of production was recorded in the original sales ledger.
Read the review, The Strad, May 2020
