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"The Essential Guide to Bows of the Violin Family"
by Gabriel Schaff
and
"Misha's Nutcracker"
by Roman Yakub
are among our favorite books about music.

 
  Violin & Viola Ergonomics, DVD; Lieberman (JLL)
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$23.95
At the Heart of Chamber Music, DVD
This DVD has been warmly received by both musicians and music-lovers. It features the prize-winning Jupiter Quartet and Paul Katz, founding cellist of the Cleveland String Quartet. It was created by Gillian Rogell, director of the Heart of Chamber Music Institute, who narrates the film and offers a practical yet philosophical approach to chamber music. The film opens with Brahms’ G major Sextet performed by the Jupiter Quartet with Paul Katz and Barry Shiffman. Several groups - a piano trio and two string quartets - are coached by Rogell and the Jupiters, while Paul Katz contributes fascinating commentary throughout the film.
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$29.95
Art of the Violin: The Devil's Instrument
A documentary film by Bruno Monsaingeon devoted to the 20th century's greatest violinists, The Art of Violin really cannot be faulted. The same, incidentally, can also be said of the similar volumes that cover the piano and singing, so there's never been a better time to collect a personal audio-visual archive of some wonderful historical performers. The added dimension provided by the painstakingly collected film material (here featuring no fewer than 20 outstanding soloists) is of exceptional value when observing violin technique, and the diversity of approaches presented here in loving detail is in itself a subject for endless comparison. The material mixes archive performance footage, much of which one might never have dreamed existed, with interviews and documentary commentary. However, rather than turn the project into a museum piece, Monsaingeon includes contributions from contemporary figures such as Itzhak Perlman and Hilary Hahn. An absolute must.
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$29.99
Inspired by Bach, 3 DVD set; Yo-Yo Ma
This set presents Yo-Yo Ma in six extraordinary artistic collaborations, exploring the passion and transformative power of J.S. Bach's glorious solo cello suites. Subjects include material with garden designer Julie Moir Messervy; filmmakers Kevin McMahon, Francois Girard, Barbara Willis Sweete, Atom Egoyan, and Patricia Rozem; artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi; choreographers Mark Morris and Tamasaburo Bando; Lori Sing; Don McKellar; and skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
This innovative, free-range creative project finds universally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma exploring Bach's six suites for cello in six segments of interdisciplinary artistic fusion. He collaborates with a wide variety of artists from different fields in order to see Bach's work in a new light. Landscape artist Julie Moir Messervy plans a Bach-inspired Boston garden in "The Music Garden"; Italian architect Piranesi's work frames Ma's music in "The Sound of the Carceri"; Mark Morris choreographs an interpretation of the third suite in "Falling Down Stairs"; director Atom Egoyan creates a story called "Sarabande" from the emotions of the fourth suite; Kabuki actor Tamasaburo puts his own stamp on Bach in "Struggle for Hope"; and finally, in "Six Gestures," ice skaters Torvill and Dean channel their reactions to Bach's music into an ice dance. These unexpected juxtapositions can be jarring but, by the end, Ma's multifaceted examination manages to shed truly new light on the old music.
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$36.95