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Violin Bundle
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For string players and teachers, The Strad's Masterclass and Technique sections are a treasure trove of knowledge, information and playing advice. Some of the world's best-known teachers and soloists have given their top tips on how to get the best out of your instrument, and perform some of the greatest works in the repertoire.The Best of Technique
£35.00
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Masterclass: Violin Concertos
£30.00
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The Strad’s Masterclass series brings together the finest string players with some of the greatest string works ever written. Always one of our most popular sections, Masterclass has been an invaluable aid to aspiring soloists, chamber musicians and string teachers since the 1990s. Now, in association with publisher G. Henle Verlag, The Strad is releasing the best of its Masterclasses as a bespoke anthology series.
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Violin Virtuosos: From Paganini to the 21st Century by Henry Roth
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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)
The Strad Masterclass: Solo Violin
£9.99
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James 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.
Carl Flesch: The Art of Violin Playing Volume 1
£37.00
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Basics by Simon Fischer
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Basics is a collection of practice methods and exercises for violin and viola players of all standards, from concert soloists to students. Based on Simon Fischer's monthly series in The Strad, Basics makes it possible to work directly on any aspect of technique. Simon Fischer, performer and teacher, studied the violin in London with Yfrah Neaman and in New York with Dorothy DeLay.
Paperback. 231pp; illustrations.
Violin Heroes
£7.99
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Nine 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.
An A-Z of Instrument Care by Jane Dorner (2nd Edition)
£4.99
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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
Alberto Bachmann An Encyclopedia Of The Violin Vln (Dover Books on Music)
£14.99
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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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Studies 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)
£3,950.00
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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
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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Contemporary Violin Makers
£325.00
Sold by: Jost Thöne
Cremona: An Account of the Italian Violin-Makers and Their Instruments (Classic Reprint)
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Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540-1690 (Oxford Monographs on Music)
£51.00
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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
LIMITED 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 – £2,245.00
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
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
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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 History of Violin Playing from its Origins to 1761: And its Relationship to the Violin and Violin Music (Clarendon Paperbacks)
£95.00
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The Russian Violin School: The Legacy Of Yuri Yankelevich
£24.99
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The Violin and Viola: History, Structure, Techniques (Dover Books on Music)
£16.99
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The Violin Explained: Components, Mechanism, and Sound
£62.00
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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
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
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
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