Scordatura Stradivari
A sneak peek of what I was doing last week- filming on two Strads and an Amati. A simple scordatura on the ‘Viotti’ Stradivari. NB Not full audio – just camera mic for now. But I wanted you to hear…
February 2025
Some Bach on Joachim’s violin
My favourite Bach fugue, on a remarkable violin. For five years, it was my privilege to work on a wonderful violin which had been played by the great Joseph Joachim. The last project which I recorded on this instrument was…
Nicola Cosimi on a violin by a British maker he admired
The violinist Nicola Cosimi was brought to London by the Duke of Bedford, the euphoniously named Wriothesley Russell. When he returned to Italy, he exported Robert Cuthbert violins, like the one I am playing here
A Welcome to Sweden – from Dag Wirén
A glorious lento from Dag Wirén, which came flooding back to me, as I watched the sunset over The Sound last night here in Sweden – with my dear friends Neil Heyde, Morgan Goff, Mihailo Trandafilovski Wilton’s Music Hall. I…
In memoriam Ilhan Usmanbas(1921-2025).
I got to know this wonderful composer in 2003, when I toured his sonata in Türkiye (with Aaron Shorr) and worked with him. It turned out that we had a mutual friend in George Rochberg, who had helped him with…