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Deceptive Cadence
8:03 am
Tue June 18, 2013

Distinctive Voices: Three Must-Hear Violin Albums

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Three of today's most fascinating violinists have new albums, including Augustin Hadelich, who pairs off with Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas.
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Augustin Hadelich's new album features guitarist Pablo Sainz Villegas.
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The violin, though centuries old, remains a popular yet remarkably unwieldy instrument. Just squeezing the contraption between your chin and shoulder, then raising your bow arm to the proper height, is enough to induce a pinched nerve. Yet every day countless numbers of people try to make the instrument sing.

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Deceptive Cadence
12:54 pm
Mon June 17, 2013

Wired: Come Hear New Music That Uses The Manhattan Bridge

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Deceptive Cadence
2:23 pm
Fri June 14, 2013

Playing Mozart — On Mozart's Violin

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Violinist Amandine Beyer holds Mozart's own violin backstage at Boston's Jordan Hall on Monday.
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Originally published on Fri June 14, 2013 6:46 pm

The violin and viola that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum in Austria. The rest of the time, they're kept under serious lockup.

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