The Strad - From the mists of time: forgotten string players of the past thestrad.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thestrad.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
My Space looks behind the scenes in the workshop of Brazilian luthier
Saulo Dantas-Barreto; and in
Making Matters Nelly Poidevin explains her new method of measuring and recording the characteristics of bows.
We also bring you news of the latest products and auctions, plus our regular analysis and opinion columns, and comprehensive reviews of concerts, CDs and books. Simply go to the
current issue to explore the full content listing.
Read about Francesca Dego’s experiences of playing ‘Il Cannone’, while listening to several audio clips from her latest album, including pieces by its former owner Paganini
We pay respects to Ivry Gitlis with extra photos of the great violinist, including him with Ginette Neveu and Jules Boucherit among others
COPY: The Strad March 2021 issue is out now thestrad.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thestrad.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
d today at the age of 98.
Goodbye to Ivry.
So Ivry Gitlis is gone, at the age of 98. To say that he was a ‘character’, who will be greatly missed, would be a ridiculous under-statement…
Born in Haifa – originally named Itzaak – to Russian-Jewish parents in 1922, he must have been an amazing child prodigy. At the age of eight, he was taken to see the great Bronislaw Hubermann; Ivry always remembered that Hubermann was sitting by a lake, dangling his feet in the water. This meeting, wet feet notwithstanding, led to Ivry making his way to Paris, accompanied by his (I’m sure – one could always feel it in Ivry’s personality) adoring mother, where he met and played for Thibaud and Enesco, and was accepted into the class of Jules Boucherit at the Paris Conservatoire at age 11. It feels strange, though, to use the words ‘Ivry’ and ‘Conservatoire’ in the same sentence. There was no way that Ivry would ever have fitted into any institution. His talent, his character,