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The Caldwell Collection of Viols: A Life Together in the Pursuit of Beauty

Composer: Caldwell; Catharina Meints (author) (current)

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Publisher: Music Word Media

Format: Book

Product code: MWM0184

Tags: viola da gamba

£114.00

A moving and humorous memoir as well as a catalogue, with the story of how the collection was shaped by the forty-year musical life together of its principals, and the conviction that “instruments, no matter how beautiful, are meant to be played and heard, not just looked at.” 217 photographs, including full-page portraits of each instrument by Roger Mastroianni, over 70 minutes of music, in 40 audio tracks, details of provenance, dimensions, and restoration history, technical descriptions of each instrument by the contemporary viol builder John Pringle, essays on the makers by musicologist Thomas G. MacCracken.

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