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    Stradivarius violin blind tests – do they matter?
    Ariane Todes

    Stradivarius violin blind tests – do they matter?

    A really interesting article about wine in the New Yorker suggests striking parallels between how we choose wine and our attitudes to...
    The future of music?
    Ariane Todes

    The future of music?

    I just came across this lovely interview with mandolin super-hero Chris Thile. Thile came to fame as a Bluegrass player but in recent...
    Ariane Todes

    Celebrating Carlos Kleiber

    I came late to the Kleiber party – I was introduced to him only recently by Burton Kaplan while I was on his Magic Mountain music course....
    Tough decisions about violinists
    Ariane Todes

    Tough decisions about violinists

    Research has begun on my list of top 20 violinists for Sinfini Music. Now I’m not a big fan of definitive lists of anything, as I once...
    Sheila Nelson and her work in Tower Hamlets
    Lili Todes

    Sheila Nelson and her work in Tower Hamlets

    In the 1980s, string pedagogue Sheila Nelson took her seminal teaching techniques to underprivileged schools in the London borough of...
    Ariane Todes

    Kopelman Quartet offers lesson in chamber music playing

    I'm just back from Wigmore Hall, where I watched the Kopelman Quartet demonstrate chamber music playing at its best: exquisite...
    Arnold Steinhardt: ‘Don’t put your parents in hock to buy a violin’
    Ariane Todes

    Arnold Steinhardt: ‘Don’t put your parents in hock to buy a violin’

    A couple of weeks ago I interviewed Arnold Steinhardt, leader of the Guarneri Quartet for 40 years, for the Cozio website. Steinhardt is...
    A Storioni violin that still thinks it’s a viola
    Ariane Todes

    A Storioni violin that still thinks it’s a viola

    Here are some photos I took when I went to interview Arnold Steinhardt for Cozio.com. They're pretty terrible pictures taken with my...
    Ariane Todes

    Lionel Tertis offers hair styling advice

    I discovered My Viola and I, the autobiography of Lionel Tertis, in the library at Magic Mountain. It's a charming read with great...
    Ariane Todes

    Leading pedagogue blasts luthiers

    I discovered this tirade in a seminal string pedagogical work: 'It is most regrettable that our present-day instrument-makers take so...
    Fritz Kreisler: ‘To practise is a bad habit’
    Ariane Todes

    Fritz Kreisler: ‘To practise is a bad habit’

    I've been raiding the library of the Magic Mountain library and came across The Memoirs of Carl Flesch. He's not the most compelling...
    Fritz Kreisler: Four Weeks in the Trenches
    Fritz Kreisler

    Fritz Kreisler: Four Weeks in the Trenches

    The great violinist served in the Austrian Army during the First World War. Here he gives a moving and deeply humane account of his time...
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