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    Itzhak Perlman on his violin heroes
    Ariane Todes

    Itzhak Perlman on his violin heroes

    In this interview I did with Itzhak Perlman for The Strad’s Violin Heroes supplement in 2009, he remembered and analysed the violinists...
    Review of Alexey Stadler Prom
    Ariane Todes

    Review of Alexey Stadler Prom

    Alexey Stadler‘s unexpected Proms debut last night was such stuff as careers are made on Performing at the Proms on a day’s notice is the...
    Gilles Apap: ‘Don’t listen to nobody’
    Ariane Todes

    Gilles Apap: ‘Don’t listen to nobody’

    Violinist Gilles Apap has one of the most original voices today, crossing easily between classical and folk styles, often in the same...
    11 important musical insights
    Ariane Todes

    11 important musical insights

    I’ve interviewed many wonderful musicians over the year, have learnt much and had my thinking challenged many times. Here are just a few...
    Review of Beethoven for a Later Age
    Ariane Todes

    Review of Beethoven for a Later Age

    I have a theory that musicians write in exactly the same style that they play their instruments. I’m pleased to see it proven, somewhat...
    Bye Bye, Bellowhead
    Ariane Todes

    Bye Bye, Bellowhead

    The ground-breaking English folk band has broken up after 12 years, leaving this fangirl sad – but grateful I’m not a mosher. I don’t...
    20 great violinists
    Ariane Todes

    20 great violinists

    Who are my favourite violinists? A list of 20, which I made for Sinfini Music in 2014, still largely stands, but is sure to provoke a...
    When classical music marketing copy goes wrong
    Ariane Todes

    When classical music marketing copy goes wrong

    The current Southbank Centre slogan offers a lesson in how not to talk to about classical music There are a few obvious rules in...
    Interview with violinist Regina Carter
    Ariane Todes

    Interview with violinist Regina Carter

    Regina Carter started with Dont and Galamian but she only truly found her voice when she discovered jazz. She tells Ariane Todes about...
    A musical tonic for the soul
    Ariane Todes

    A musical tonic for the soul

    A trip to the Musical Instrument Museum in Arizona offered profound and uplifting insights into the human condition, and interesting...
    Jacqueline du Pré – a terrible premonition
    Ariane Todes

    Jacqueline du Pré – a terrible premonition

    On what would have been the 71th birthday of Jacqueline du Pré, the words of János Starker sound a provocative warning Jacqueline du Pré...
    Careless talk costs lives
    Ariane Todes

    Careless talk costs lives

    As Nigel Kennedy goes on Radio 4's Mastertapes programme to be rude about Baroque performance practice, here's a blog I wrote in 2011 on...
    Top 5 Elbow Music posts of 2015
    Ariane Todes

    Top 5 Elbow Music posts of 2015

    Thank you for visiting Elbow Music in 2015. It’s been a bumper year for the site, and I’m planning some developments very shortly, so...
    11 important musical insights
    Ariane Todes

    11 important musical insights

    I’ve interviewed many wonderful musicians over the year, have learnt much and had my thinking challenged many times. Here are just a few...
    ‘You have to treat Bartók as you do Mozart or Haydn’
    Ariane Todes

    ‘You have to treat Bartók as you do Mozart or Haydn’

    Bartók’s quartets are often played ‘brutal, fast and loud’, but they should be approached as Classical masterpieces, says Jerusalem...
    Pinchas Zukerman on how to change the world
    Ariane Todes

    Pinchas Zukerman on how to change the world

    The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates its 70th birthday in 2016 and for its commemorative anniversary booklet, I had the...
    Joshua Bell on Josef Gingold
    Ariane Todes

    Joshua Bell on Josef Gingold

    Josef Gingold was born on 28 October, 1909. In celebration of the birth of a universally beloved and respected pedagogue, here is an...
    George Eliot on violin-making obsession and the genius of Stradivarius
    Ariane Todes

    George Eliot on violin-making obsession and the genius of Stradivarius

    To mark the UK's National Poetry Day, 8th October, here's George Eliot's great poem about violin making and the obsession with which...
    The Freewheelin’ Yo-Yo Ma
    Ariane Todes

    The Freewheelin’ Yo-Yo Ma

    Yo-Yo Ma turns 60 on 7 October, 2015, and to celebrate one of the world's best-loved classical music heroes, here is an interview I did...
    View from the viola front desk
    Ariane Todes

    View from the viola front desk

    Paul Silverthorne has led the viola section of the London Symphony Orchestra for 25 years, working with the finest conductors and...
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