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Camillo Sivori: Hearing the ghost of Paganini

It was long before lockdown that my good friend Andrew Krastins swore solemnly swore me to secrecy during...

Nicolo Paganini: George Patten’s 1832 Preparatory Study from Life.

A chance find in a German sale-room proved to be a little better than the auctioneer had suggested…...

Lights show how Heifetz plays violin

In 1952 Jascha Heifetz met with the photograph Gjon Mili for an experiment in capturing the movement of his...

A Grand Experiment: Childe Harolde’s Tenore and a 170th Anniversary Concert

On 27 January 2018, the Royal Orchestral Society celebrate the 170th anniversary of the London premiere of...

Harold In Italy: Berlioz, Paganini and Henry Hill’s “incomparable” Barak Norman viola.

For lucky owners of Barak Norman’s violas there is the tantalising possibility that theirs was the...

August Wilhelmj’s spectacular Dodd bow.

August Wilhelmj wrote the transcription of Bach's 3rd Orchestral suite that spawned Air on a G' String, but...

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