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March 14, 2011 2:51 PM
Welcome to Marc's violin world
Welcome to Marc's violin world | Violins | Scoop.it
I met violin when I was young. I fall in love. It was not reciprocal - I never was able to play a decent scale. But my love survived.

Violin is ultra simple in concept: no moving pieces, no predefined notes. Yet, it offers infinite possibilities. My violin world is violin accross boundaries: accros music styles, geographies and times. Enjoy and feel free to suggest.
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www.youtube.com - March 8, 3:36 PM

A Violin which rocks and stings

Sting with Back to Bass tour in Houston, november 18 2011. Fiddler Peter Tickell doing his amazing solo.

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www.bbc.co.uk - March 5, 12:41 PM

Spider silk violin strings

A Japanese researcher spins thousands of strands of spider silk into violin strings, said to have a "soft and profound timbre" relative to standard strings.

Recording inside!

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www.youtube.com - October 25, 2011 3:05 PM

Renaud Garcia Fons 'Solo Bass'

Amazing solo for 5-string double bass. Sensual, exotic, unique.

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www.engadget.com - December 6, 2011 5:30 PM

Stradivarius violin recreated from CAT scan, 'sounds amazingly similar'

This sounds like a miracle.


Stradivarius violins are 300+ years old and their secrete sauce is still a mystery. Almost a myth! Puzzling news therefore, both from a music and science perspectives.


PS: CAT Scan = Computed Axial Tomography Scan

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curiositycounts.com - November 1, 2011 12:37 PM

Curiosity: Visualisation of Bach's Cello Suite

Visualisation of Bach's Cello Suite #1, prelude. By Alexander Chen of mta.me, via Maria Popova @brainpicker

 

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www.youtube.com - October 10, 2011 4:14 AM

Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics

Ethio-jazz. Cello inside. Suggested by Maxime from http://www.facebook.com/#!/LaMusique

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www.youtube.com - October 3, 2011 10:38 AM

Cello in the movies - Take the Money and Run

Woody Allen. "A jungle is no place for a cellist".

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shikmovies.com - August 18, 2011 6:33 AM

Le Violon Rouge (The Red Violin)

I have been thinking of writing about "The Red Violin" since i saw it. I saw this movie by chance. Yes, i am really happy to have stumbled upon it.This movie is about an epic journey of a perfect ...
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www.violinist.com - July 26, 2011 5:49 AM

Interview from Julia Fischer on 'Poème'

By Bram Heemskerk: Julia Fischer's new CD, 'Poème'
Julia Fischer made a cd with 2 relatively well known and 2 relatively unknown pieces with conductor Yakov Kreizberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Kreizberg who died recently 51 years old.
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www.youtube.com - June 2, 2011 3:18 PM

‪igudesman & joo

Mozart bond (a bit of fun).
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www.youtube.com - January 12, 2011 8:39 PM

Western classic music on Chinese violin

Mrs Sun Huang plays "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso", by Camille Saint Saens. The instrument is the Erhu, or Chinese violin. It has only 2 strings and predates the western violin by 500 year. Interesting to hear how it performs on romantic music. And I really like how inspired Mrs Sun Huang looks.
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www.youtube.com - March 9, 5:56 AM

Beethoven Concerto

Magnificent performance by Anne Sophie Mutter (in 1984 - she was only 20!) in the cadenza of Beethoven's concerto. With master Karajan.


Via Bryan Douds
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vimeo.com - March 8, 3:44 PM

The Violin Maker

A portrait (video) of Sam Zygmuntowicz, violin maker.

Passion and expertise!

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www.nytimes.com - March 8, 3:32 PM

Strad Wars

Is the enormous worth of revered violins rooted in myth or merit?


I like this sentence: "Psychology plays an important role. If musicians think they are playing one of the greatest instruments in the world, they may actually play better."

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www.nytimes.com - January 16, 8:48 AM

Stradivarius loses its triple A

End of last year, they were replicated by CAT scan and 3-D printer. Now they are challenged by modern violins. Tough time for the myths!


"Blindfolded experts who listened to violins made by old masters and high-quality modern instruments couldn’t tell the difference between them".


The New York Times, via Myriam



Photo Christie's/European Pressphoto agency

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www.economist.com - January 10, 5:22 PM

Print me a Stradivarius

Violin is just a pretext here. But this deserves to be scooped:

"How a new manufacturing technology will change the world"


The Economist.

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www.youtube.com - November 10, 2011 4:42 AM

Midori plays Ravel Tzigane

A difficult piece (not only to play...). I love it for its amazing richness of sounds, soul and rythms (for those who don't know it and are curious, I recommand you keep listening up to the second part of the piece, a bit easier). I've chosen this version by Japanese player Mirodi to make us travel even farther.

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www.washingtonpost.com - November 20, 2010 5:55 AM

An amazing experiment by Joshua Bell

A story about fame, art and perception. Courageous experiment by one of the world's greatest violinists. His instrument is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played it for spare change, incognito, outside a bustling Metro stop in Washington, would anyone notice?

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www.youtube.com - December 1, 2010 9:13 AM

Jasser Haj Youssef Quartet

Oriental Jazz Music; meeting of two cultures. Superb :)
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www.youtube.com - September 15, 2011 6:21 PM

Han Na Chang - Paganini

Variations on a Theme by Rossini


Via Fernando L. Seijo
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survivingthegoldenage.com - July 26, 2011 5:57 AM

Pop - Rock hits by 2Cellos.

Stop me if you have heard this one before: two guys that look like they belong on the O.C. start an all cello band that covers popular songs. If you have heard this one before, I am shocked. Not since Rasputina has an ...

I bought their CD "Surviving the Golden Age". Like it :)
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finance.yahoo.com - June 24, 2011 10:18 AM

The ‘Lady Blunt’ 1721 Stradivarius Violin Sets World Record Price at Tarisio Auction

Tarisio, the online auction house for fine instruments, sold the ‘Lady Blunt’ Stradivarius violin of 1721 for a world-record price of £9,808,000 ($15,894,000) at their June 20 auction, over 4 times the previous auction record for a Stradivari violin. It was bought by an anonymous bidder after extremely active bidding. 100% of proceeds from the sale will go to aid Japan through the Nippon Foundation’s Northeastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund.
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www.violinist.com - April 22, 2011 5:34 AM

Jascha Heifetz, God's Fiddler

By Laurie Niles: When filmmaker Peter Rosen was approached to make a documentary on Jascha Heifetz several years ago, he met the project with some reservations.
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www.thehighdefinite.com - January 25, 2011 6:16 PM

Michael Jackson on cello - Stunning

So much energy! I suddently appreciate Michael Jackson ;) Dueling Cellists Stjepan Hauser & Luka Sulic – Smooth Criminal
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