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David content describes Land's End Chamber Ensemble, a Canadian group, and their first CD featuring Antheil's second violin sonata, Gordon Rumson’s Three Preludes for Piano, and Takemitsu's Between Tides. Malcolm Tattersall provides a review noting first-rate performances and excellent production.
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Tess Crebbin describes the first International Boris Pergamenschikow Scholarship Award Ceremony, noting performances by Bohorquez with a three-cellist Bach piece, Nicolas Altstädt, Julian Arp, and Danjulo Ishizaka with Mara Mednik. Highlights include Arp's Debussy Cello and Piano Sonata, Ishizaka's Tchaikovsky Pezzo Capriccioso, and praise from Bernard Greenhouse and Frans Helmerson.
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The post reports that Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey purchased a Giovanni Batista Guadagnini cello made in 1760 in Parma for 341,250 pounds, the highest price for a Guadagnini cello at auction. It mentions that Wispelwey may perform with the instrument in Japan the following March and cites the official site.
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The Monterey County Herald via AP reports a 205-year-old instrument crafted in 1798 by Jose Carbajal, a Salinan Indian, vanished from Mission San Antonio de Padua's museum. The theft, which replaced the violin with a cheap imitation, was only noticed when John Warren of the New World Baroque Orchestra arrived to borrow the instrument; detective Jim Miller notes no value has been placed on the missing item.