In this music video, Tasmin Little plays La Gitana by Fritz Kreisler.
From British daily The Guardian:
Top violinist’s free digital download targets classical elitism
Mark Brown, arts correspondent
Tuesday January 8, 2008
First there was Radiohead‘s honesty box album with its track-stopping pay-what-you-please strategy. Now one of Britain’s leading classical performers is going one step further by offering her next recording as a digital download free of charge.
Tasmin Little is in the world’s top league of solo violinists, regularly attracting rhapsodical reviews. She will next week make her first new recording in four years available for nothing to anyone with computer access. …
The Naked Violin download will be available from Monday at tasminlittle.net.
Stradivarius violins: here.
Secret of the great violins? The wood, study
suggests:
The elusive key to the unmatched sound of
Stradivari may lie in uniformity of density,
a scientist claims.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080701_violins
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