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The Red Violin (1998)



Suggested reading:
An Encyclopedia of the Violin
(1975), Alberto Abraham Bachmann
The Cambridge Companion to the Violin
(1993), Robin Stowell (Editor)
The Art of the Violin
(1991), Pierre Marie Francois De Sales Baillot


Angel and Violin, Melozzo da Forli - 15th Century






.. Francois Girard's Thirty Two Short Films About Glen Gould (1993) was a remarkable and fascinating film that explored the complexity of the great pianist through a series of short episodes. Now Girard offers up a very different film that is also made on an episodic structure and in which, once again, music is central to the themes and story. In The Red Violin, the instrument itself provides the unifying element as Girard follows its history over three centuries.
In the first of five segments, Nicolo Bussotti, a master violinmaker in seventeenth century Italy, is making his masterpiece instrument in anticipation of the birth of his son.......

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