Etherial sounds in Phantom Thread
One of the stranger highlights of 2017 was conversation with the brilliant violinist Daniel Pioro about how to create more etherial sounds for elements of Daniel Day-Lewis’s Phantom Thread, an outstanding film with a yet more outstanding soundtrack, but at times it needed a different timbre from what the violin can naturally give. The result […]
Hans Werner Henze’s Viola Sonata
One viola that has beguiled me for years was made by Matthew Hardie in Edinburgh around 1820 from pieces of a seventeenth century viol … more in a forthcoming blog, I want to do it justice. Miraculously the instrument maintains an incredibly strong C-string despite being a mere 15 1/4inches long providing the combination of […]
