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The Violin

First broadcast from 20000106 to 20050825.

Novelist Christopher Hope narrates his new short story about Fred, a Parisian janitor whose life is suddenly transformed by the exotic Yuliah, a Russian violinist.

5 episodes

Series	Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Description
TM			20050825	20060614
200A	01		20000106		The first of a nine-part series in which Andrew Manze explores violin music with some of the finest players. 1: The Mozart Violins. Today we hear 12-year-old Maria-Elisabeth Lott on the violin Mozart played as a child, and Yuuko Shiokawa playing Mozart's concert violin in the room where he was born. Plus a look at Leopold Mozart's influential treatise in violin playing. Violin Sonata in G, K301. Maria-Elisabeth Lott, Sontraud Speidel (fortepiano). Rondo in B flat, K269. Maria-Elisabeth Lott (violin), Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra/Markus Tomasi. Violin Sonata in G, K379. Yuuko Shiokawa, Andras Schiff (fortepiano).
200A	02	Heifetz The Romantic	20000113		The second programme of a nine-part series in which Andrew Manze explores violin music with some of the finest players. 2: `Heifetz the Romantic'. Today Andrew Manze looks at possibly the most famous violinist of the 20th century - Jascha Heifetz. The programme features a performance of Cesar Franck's Violin Sonata from Heifetz's last concert, and some shorter pieces, including some of Paganini's caprices and part of Mozart's `Haffner' Serenade.
200A	03	Tzigane	20000120		Andrew Manze looks at the influence of folk music on classical composers and plays some great historical recordings, including Joseph Joachim performing Brahms, Joseph Szigeti and Bela Bartok in Bartok's Rhapsody No 1, and George Enescu and Dinu Lipatti in Enescu's Violin Sonata No 3. Plus Augustin Dumay playing Ravel's `Tzigane', and a recording of folk musicians from Romania.
200A	04		20000127		Andrew Manze explores some of the music written for solo violin, including Yehudi Menuhin playing Bach, Frank Peter Zimmermann performing Ysaye, Isabelle Faust playing Bartok, Alexander Markov and Ruggiero Ricci playing Paganini, and Matthew Trusler playing Kreisler.