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Research article Contemporary Musicology, 2026, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 212–229

Pierre Boulez's Anthèmes I for Solo Violin: On the Virtuosity

The article approaches Boulez's piece through the physiology of performance. Its starting points are the remarks of Yehudi Menuhin, who commissioned the work for a violin competition, and the neuropathic image invoked by Boulez himself — ataxia, the loss of motor control. Seen this way, the eccentricity of the violin writing reads as a means of cultivating new reflexes and shaping a new type of virtuosic composition.

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DOI: 10.56620/2587-9731-2026-2-212-229
Research article Muzykal'naya Akademiya, 2024, No. 4 (788), pp. 60–73

Luciano Berio's Sequenza VIII and Its Intellectual Worlds

A survey of three analytical readings of the Sequenza VIII for solo violin — by Pierre Boulez, Eugene Montague and the author. Their differing methodologies show how much the meaning of the piece depends on the reader's professional lens, while all three converge on the semiotics of Umberto Eco, Berio's close friend and ally.

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DOI: 10.34690/431
Research article Vremennik Zubovskogo Instituta, 2024, Issue 1 (44), pp. 25–40

Brian Ferneyhough's Intermedio alla ciaccona: The Toolkit of Imprinted Graphics

The only string piece in the Carceri d'invenzione cycle is read as an attempt to carry the language of engraving into violin performance. Piranesi's etchings — their hatching, broken perspective and stairs leading nowhere — echo in Ferneyhough's choice of devices: glissando, tremolo and ricochet act as different densities of line, while the mounting technical difficulty from page to page mirrors the stage-by-stage etching of a printing plate.

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DOI: 10.52527/22218130_2024_1_25

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Russian Romanticism: Fantasies and Reflections for Violin and Piano

26 September 2026, 19:00 · Alexander Shilov Gallery · Moscow

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