Despite recording 20 albums over a 3-decade career, French concert cellist and educator Anne Gastinel had not explored Chopin’s chamber works on record—until now.
According to baptismal records, Frederic Chopin's birth was actually on February 22, 1810, but like the rebel he is, he chose March 1 to celebrate his birthday.... Read More...
Schott's "Joy of Music: Virtuoso and Entertaining Pieces for Violin & Piano" is aimed at professional musicians and advanced amateurs interested in new discoveries outside the standard repertoire.
When Niccolò Paganini needed a powerful new violin, he found (or was given) an instrument by Guarneri del Gesù. He called it “Il Cannone” (the Cannon) and used it for the rest of his life.
By Sasha Margolis
Fritz Kreisler, who forever changed the way we listen to and play the violin, was a disarmingly charming revolutionary. His music-making w... Read More...
Haendel was a large-scaled player who thrived in the great Romantic concerti. In her younger years, her musicality was especially fiery and impulsive...
By Sasha Margolis
Zara Nelsova was born to play the cello—almost literally. The woman who, in the 1950s, would be dubbed “Queen of the Cello” and come to be... Read More...
By Greg Cahill | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazine
“There is a creepy bloodlust to the doom-mongering of classical music, as though an autops... Read More...