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Mar

6

Iconoclast or Prophet?

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I’d be surprised if you’d not already come across this, seeing how many views it has had on YouTube…

Extreme he may be, but the new mainstreams often start life on the fringe of what’s normal, and work their way in. If you think closely about what Gilles Apap does, you come to realize that […]

Sep

17

Leopold Auer

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THE FREDERICK MARTENS INTERVIEWS
LEOPOLD AUER
A METHOD WITHOUT SECRETS
from VIOLIN MASTERY by Frederick Martens

When that celebrated laboratory of budding musical genius, the Petrograd Conservatory, closed its doors indefinitely owing to the disturbed political conditions of Russia, the famous violinist and teacher Professor Leopold Auer decided to pay the […]

Sep

10

Eugene Ysaye

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THE FREDERICK MARTENS INTERVIEWS
EUGÈNE YSAYE
THE TOOLS OF VIOLIN MASTERY
from VIOLIN MASTERY by Frederick Martens
Who is there among contemporary masters of the violin whose name stands for more at the present time than that of the great Belgian artist, his “extraordinary temperamental power as an interpreter” enhanced by a hundred and […]

Sep

3

The Frederick Martens Interviews

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I’ve received several requests from people who used to visit the old ViolinMP3.com website for access to the Frederick Martens interviews. These are quite an interesting set of old articles from nearly 100 years ago, with some key violinists including Kreisler, Elman, Heifetz, Thibaud etc., not to mention several less well known exponents of the […]