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Welcome to Marc's violin world
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 across boundaries: across music styles, geographies and times. Enjoy and feel free to suggest.
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Maxim Vengerov - Sonate N° 3 D. Moll - Ballade - E. Ysaÿe
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"Julia Fischer, Paganini : 24 caprices (Music clip)"
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"The violin extends the range of the human soul". About art, technology, and following one's dream. Tchaikovsky inside. at TED.
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It's summertime, eventually! Rarely seen such a big crowd for a violinist.
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The prelude of Bach's Suite #1 for unaccompagnied cello played on 8 cellos by the same player (Steven Sharp Nelson)! Cool :-)
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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Sting with Back to Bass tour in Houston, november 18 2011. Fiddler Peter Tickell doing his amazing solo.
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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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Amazing solo for 5-string double bass. Sensual, exotic, unique.
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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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Visualisation of Bach's Cello Suite #1, prelude. By Alexander Chen of mta.me, via Maria Popova @brainpicker
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"Transcription for violin solo of toccata and fugue in D minor"
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The strings of the banjo are similar to the strings of the violin, so this piece belongs to this topic. I've seen the movie long ago; this mythical scene cannot be forgotten.
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This cello band "formed as a loose group of cellists who kept bumping into each other around town and decided it only made sense to hang out, drink beer and jam" (more). I like this motivation :-)
This particular tune was written by Paul Desmond for Dave Brubek (I hear "Mission Impossible" in it at the end; do you?).
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A portrait (video) of Sam Zygmuntowicz, violin maker. Passion and expertise!
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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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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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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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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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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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