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chicagoclassicalreview.com
Chicago Classical Review reports on the Chicago premiere of Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto No. 2, performed by Robert McDuffie and the Venice Baroque Orchestra at the Harris Theater as part of a 30-city tour. The piece, subtitled The American Four Seasons, is a four-movement work with a solo violin introduction and a keyboard synthesizer, roughly 40 minutes in length.
nytimes.com
Anthony Tommasini reviews Magnus Lindberg’s Kraft performed by the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, conducted by Alan Gilbert. The work features amplified cello, clarinet, piano and percussion including unconventional items like brake drums and nitrogen tank. Joshua Bell was the soloist in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, program also included Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
eadt.co.uk
Colin Adwent reports that antique violin bows worth more than £110,000 are feared stolen after being left at Ipswich railway station. British Transport Police are appealing for information about 11 historic bows dating to the 19th century, with one bow alone valued over £30,000; the case was left on a train from London to Ipswich.
bashinform.ru
The article reports that residents of Ufa could hear Antonio Stradivari’s violin in its original sound, brought to the city by Austrian violinist Lutz Leskovits and performed at the Bashkir State Philharmonic in Ufa. The event featured pianist and composer Vasily Shcherbakov and the Oscar Ensemble, with the concert opening a festival of chamber and symphonic music.
dailyrecord.co.uk
The article reports on a performance by the Scottish Ensemble at St Ninian’s Cathedral, describing the acoustics and quality of sound. It mentions soloist Pieter Wispelwey and works by Vivaldi, Sibelius, and Sallinen, including Vivaldi’s Cello Concerto in B minor RV424 and Sallinen’s Chamber Music VIII ‘The Trees, All Their Green’.
accordo.it
The article discusses Salvatore Accardo and the Cannone violin attributed to Guarneri del Gesù, built in 1743 and reputed as the best violin by luthier John Dilworth. It notes that the Cannone is in Palazzo Tursi, Genoa, and that Salvatore Accardo owns two Stradivari; the text includes historical praise and a personal anecdote about the instrument's fame.
m.newsru.com
The violin Molitor, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1697 and possibly once owned by Napoleon Bonaparte, was sold in an online auction for a record $3.6 million. The buyer is American violinist Ann Akiko Meyers, who cited its exceptional sound as the motivation for the purchase.
vesti.ru
The Stradivari Molitor violin, created by Antonio Stradivari, sold for 3.6 million USD. The buyer was American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. Some experts suggest the instrument may have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte, but there is no documentary evidence.
gazeta.ua
The article reports on a Stradivari violin being sold for a record price, with accompanying photographs. The page is from Gazeta.ua and discusses the auction/result of the instrument sale.
oxfordmail.co.uk
The article reports that Angel, a greyhound, sniffed out a case containing 11 antique violin bows worth £110,000 stolen from Oxford musician Peter Oxley. The bows were recovered and handed to British Transport Police for return to Oxley; the find earned Angel’s owner, Chris Laflin, a £5,000 reward.
broadwayworld.com
Joseph Lin, a 32-year-old violinist and alumnus of Harvard and The Juilliard School Pre-College, will join the Juilliard String Quartet as first violinist starting in 2011 and will join the Juilliard violin faculty in fall 2011. He is on leave from Cornell University and will replace violinist Nick Eanet who resigned for health reasons; the other quartet members are Ronald Copes, Samuel Rhodes, and Joel Krosnick.
fiddlestyles.com
The article discusses Nagyvary, a biochemist at Texas A&M, and his pursuit to uncover why Antonio Stradivari’s violins are so exceptional. It notes his background, his experiments with wood preservation, and his belief that Cremona-era techniques protected wood from infestation.