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The Strad Masterclass: Solo Violin
£9.99James Ehnes, Hilary Hahn, Leonidas Kavakos, Maxim Vengerov, Nikolaj Znaider: some of the violin world’s top names have given their thoughts on key works of string repertoire within The Strad’s pages. Now, for the first time, Masterclass: Solo Violin brings together articles from the magazine’s popular Masterclass section over the past nine years.
Antonio Stradivari by Horace Petherick
£19.95This book tells us much about the understanding of experts at the turn of the century.
An A-Z of Instrument Care by Jane Dorner (2nd Edition)
£4.99A first-aid manual and good-health guide for your most precious possession. This essential book for players of the violin family is the most convenient guide on the market.
Paperback. 64pp.
Violin Heroes
£7.99Nine of today’s top violinists, including Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Maxim Vengerov and Nikolaj Znaider, talk about the players who have most influenced them. Plus, articles from The Strad’s archive give an insight into the greatest players of the last century, including Heifetz, Menuhin, Kreisler and Ysaÿe.
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A Life In Music, by György Pauk
£15.00Over 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
Alberto Bachmann An Encyclopedia Of The Violin Vln (Dover Books on Music)
£14.99ISBN-10: 0486466183
ISBN-13: 978-0486466187
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An Introduction to the Old Italian Violins (simplified mandarin)
£170.00The 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)
£12.95Studies the life and art of the Italian violin craftsman, focusing on the skills and techniques which have made his products renowned throughout the world.
ISBN-10: 0486204251
ISBN-13: 978-0486204253
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Antonius Stradivarius Volumes I-VIII (Edited by Jost Thöne)
£3,950.00This 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
£17,457.00This 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
Before the Chinrest: A Violinist’s Guide to the Mysteries of Pre-Chinrest Technique and Style (Publications of the Early Music Institute)
ISBN-10: 0253223180
ISBN-13: 978-0253223180
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Cremona: An Account of the Italian Violin-Makers and Their Instruments (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10: 1332117589
ISBN-13: 978-1332117581
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Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540-1690 (Oxford Monographs on Music)
£51.00ISBN-10: 0198165927
ISBN-13: 978-0198165927
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FÜSSEN LUTE AND VIOLIN MAKING by Josef Focht, Klaus Martius, Thomas Riedmiller
£60.00A 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
£275.00LIMITED EDITION
‘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 – £2,245.00A unique collection of instruments crafted by the legendary lutherie masters of the last four centuries from Italy and France.
The Library Edition is limited to 2.000 copies, the leather-bound De Luxe Edition to 100 copies; each volume is individually numbered and registered.
JOANNES BAPTISTA GUADAGNINI FECIT PARMAE SERVIENS C.S.R.
£315.00Masterpieces from the 2011 Parma Galleria Nazionale Exhibition
Listening through the lens by Christopher Nupen (with sampler DVD)
£30.00The 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
Stradivari’s Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
ISBN-10: 0375760857
ISBN-13: 978-0375760853
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THE 1690 TUSCAN STRADIVARI VIOLIN IN THE ACCADEMIA DI SANTA CECILIA
£130.00TREASURES OF ITALIAN VIOLIN MAKING – II
The Amadeus Book of the Violin: Construction, History, and Music
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
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The Fulton Collection: A Guided Tour by David Fulton
£120.001st edition volume featuring large-format linen-bound hardcover, high quality photos and never-before-seen archival material including excerpts from “The Hill Diaries” and “Alfred Hill Notes.”
The Heifetz Scale Book for Violin
£16.16ISBN-10: 1581064357
ISBN-13: 978-1581064353
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The History of Violin Playing from its Origins to 1761: And its Relationship to the Violin and Violin Music (Clarendon Paperbacks)
£95.00ISBN-10: 0198161832
ISBN-13: 978-0198161837
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The Russian Violin School: The Legacy Of Yuri Yankelevich
£24.99ISBN-10: 0199917620
ISBN-13: 978-0199917624
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The Violin and Viola: History, Structure, Techniques (Dover Books on Music)
£16.99ISBN-10: 0486428532
ISBN-13: 978-0486428536
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The Violin Explained: Components, Mechanism, and Sound
£62.00ISBN-10: 0198167393
ISBN-13: 978-0198167396
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The Violin in 5ths – Developing Intonation and Sound
£29.99Heifetz, 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
The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family, 1626-1762 (Dover Books on Music)
ISBN-10: 0486260615
ISBN-13: 978-0486260617
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Valentin Berlinsky – A Quartet for Life by Maria Matalaev
£19.95The 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 and Bow Makers, Volume 1
£40.00Featuring forty full-colour pages of instruments and bows from significant violin- and bow-makers from across Europe.
W.E. Hill & Sons Violin Makers 1880-1936, by John Basford and Tim Toft
£95.00 – £275.00W.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