@kalmanreti@classicalmusic Bomsori and I are New Best Friends after last night's BBC Music Magazine Awards (my review of a Nielsen disc, including her passionate performance of the Violin Concerto, won the Concertos category). Here's my shot of her, second from left, with three of the Danes - lovely people - and award-giver Tasmin Little
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"Im besten Falle werden Stradivaris von Virtuosinnen und Virtuosen wie Anne-Sophie Mutter und David Garrett gespielt. Doch viele der Meisterstücke liegen als Anlageobjekte in Safes verschlossen. Und natürlich weckt ihr finanzieller Wert auch die Begehrlichkeit von Kriminellen. So sind vermutlich die meisten Geigen, in denen das Label "Stradivari" klebt, eine Fälschung."
In Tudor and Stuart times, gifts were given at New Year rather than at Christmas.
Here is a musical New Year's Gift. It's an anonymous 17th Century dance of that name from Thomas Middleton's Inner Temple Masque, or Masque of Heroes, 1619.
From BL Add. 10444
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: violin
Inside a 250-year-old French Violin by Augustin Chappuy.
This violin was just brought to New Zealand and is about to be restored - so I thought I'd do this 'before' photo, and you can all check back in in about a year's time once it's been through the hands of Le Violon Rouge luthiers!
Photographed with a Medical Endoscope and a Lumix G9ii
@maslowsneeds@dermb@classicalmusic the Luthier herself could tell you better, but there is some deformation to the shape of the belly that needs to be addressed. Some of these cleats are good but many need redoing. Lots of scratches and varnish issues on the outside. Soundpost replacements, new bridge. There's a good few months of work do be done here!
I...I think I've finally finished it :blobfox_surprised:
I put a (very) rough draft of this up a while ago, hoping to get a final draft out within a week or two, but I think it's taken me at least a month :psyduck_sweat:
Still, it's done! :shiba_excited: A quartet version of Kokiri Forest! :furret_excited: Weeeeee :zerotwo_excited:
@chessert@larsibacken@classicalmusic I play the piano and Prokofiev is also one of my favorite composers! Various works I like include his 4th, 7th, and 9th piano sonatas, as well as his 2nd and 3rd piano concertos. But some of my favorite works of his are his set of ten (little) pieces, Op. 12, especially the neo-Baroque Gavotte (#2) and the march-like Allemande (#8).
As everyone knows, #VíkingurÓlafsson's #JSBach: Goldberg Variations was released today, but there were two other new releases today worth noting. #HaniaRani released her new album, Ghost, and Frank Peter Zimmermann finally, finally, finally, released #Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2. Why there had to be two volumes, I don't know, but I have dozens of recordings of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas and Zimmermann is solid.