A sneak peak, at what we have been up to, at the Ashmolean Museum, where we spent a glorious day filming and recording on the unbelievable 1722 ‘Rode’ Stradivari. Here, just an idea about decoration, with some Telemann drifting around (recorded…
Knowledge Exchange Violin 2023 Continuing the project – Knowledge Exchange Violin 2022 Supported by Research England/Royal Academy of Music London Oxford, Stradivari, New York, Farnham (29 1 23) On Friday 27th January, I returned to my ‘Knowledge Exchange Violin’ project,…
Michael Alec Rose’s cycle of pieces for my ‘Knowledge Exchange Violin’ project is a joy, and a growing one at that! Here’s the piece he wrote for the Pierre Rode ‘Strad’, recorded last week at the Ashmolean museum. Spot the…
A violinist’s view… The violin/continuo sonatas that we are playing in today’s programme each point to the wonderful variety of technical and expressive approaches at end of the 17th and first half of the 18th century. Archangelo Corelli’s Sonatas Op…
The Pisendel A minor solo sonata is one of the most lovely notations of fantastic improvisation that survive from the 18th Century, and I love how each space remoulds it – in this case, the George Dance the Younger church…