Tag: violins
Frank Peter Zimmermann violins Bach – Culture
Yehudi Menuhin said that Johann Sebastian Bach’s six sonatas and partitas for solo violin are the “Old Testament” of all violin playing. But even without such a sacred respect-demanding classification,…
Julia Fischer violins at the Nobel Prize – Bavaria
Julia Fischer will appear as a soloist at this year’s Nobel Prize Concert at Konserthuset Stockholm, Nobel Prize Outreach has now announced. The concert on December 8th in honor of…
The Orchester du Capitole and the Stade Toulousain tune their violins for a good cause
Sofiane Guitoune on the harp, Joël Merkler on the cello or even Ugo Mola on the baton. These are not metaphors for the last match played by rugby players from…
Stradivarius expert Dmitry Gindin: “I traded violins when I was 18” – Economy
Dmitry Gindin is an expert on Stradivari violins, sometimes even hunting them down. Why all violins look the same to a layman, how he discovers valuable instruments, and why they…
Elisabeth Borne and Olaf Scholz want to tune their violins
In the name of Europe. Elisabeth Borne and Olaf Scholz meet in Berlin this Friday to tune the French and German violins and make people forget their dissonances on defense…