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Violinists: What do you make of this violinist?

From Austin Mohr
Posted April 15, 2004 at 09:15 PM

What do you make of this violinist? I haven't heard much of him, but as part of a classical music collection I got when I was quite young I received a copy of him playing Williams' Lark Ascending and it's really quite good.

From Stephen Brivati
Posted on April 15, 2004 at 11:46 PM

Greetings,
I was puzzled by this. I do know an excellent recording of the lark by a fine Englsh violnist called Iona Brown.
You cna imagine the program reads a litlte funny:
Iona Brown- violin,
Cheers,
Buri

From Austin Mohr
Posted on April 15, 2004 at 11:53 PM

Funny! Iona Brown violin too, as I imagine most violinists do.

Maybe I got the name wrong?

From owen sutter
Posted on April 16, 2004 at 06:50 PM

mine's more orangish..

From Austin Mohr
Posted on April 16, 2004 at 06:58 PM

Yeah, actually I guess mine is rather reddish

From owen sutter
Posted on April 16, 2004 at 10:05 PM

Iona Oranishbrownishredish - violin

From Stephen Brivati
Posted on April 16, 2004 at 10:30 PM

Good for playing the Borodit Quartets?

From owen sutter
Posted on April 16, 2004 at 11:21 PM

pffsh, whatever that means.

From Stephen Brivati
Posted on April 17, 2004 at 02:23 AM

that"s how I spell 'goldfish' you young scallywag,
Cheers,
Buri

From Emily Grossman
Posted on April 17, 2004 at 08:07 AM

For the Borodit Quartet, wouldn't she need to be named Iboroda Brown?

From owen sutter
Posted on April 17, 2004 at 07:58 PM

tee hee

From Stephen Brivati
Posted on April 17, 2004 at 09:42 PM

Greetings,
did you ever hear her sister (Istola Brown) play?
Cheers,
Buri

From Austin Mohr
Posted on April 17, 2004 at 11:00 PM

No, but I did hear her other sister, Ivanna Brown, who married a man named Strad.

From N.A. Mohr
Posted on April 17, 2004 at 11:49 PM

Now I'm confused...is there a real Ian Brown? ;)

From Stephen Brivati
Posted on April 18, 2004 at 07:13 AM

Greetings, and how many more Mohrs are there?
The moor the merrier?
Cheers,
Buri

From Austin Mohr
Posted on April 18, 2004 at 04:01 PM

One more Mohr more is one more than before.

From N.A. Mohr
Posted on April 18, 2004 at 05:59 PM

I always say we're just 'Mohr' of a good thing...

;-)

From lorenzo Z
Posted on April 18, 2004 at 09:58 PM

Ok guys, stop, I'm laughing so much I'm getting stomach cramp

From ian Brown
Posted on June 10, 2004 at 11:34 AM

I am an Ian Brown!! On one occasion, I page turned for the pianist Ian Brown when the Nash Ensemble visited Nottingham in the mid-nineties. Violinist Marcia Crayford was amused by this and even mentioned it to the audience! Ian Brown (the pianist) told me about the time when the Nash Ensemble gave a concert in Sussex and the man turning the pages on that occasion for him was the Rev. Page-Turner! He said that no one ever believes him at first when he recounts that anecdote. Now he has another coincidence to add to it!
I once saw Iona Brown give a concert at the Nottingham Theatre Royal. I spoke to her afterwards to tell her how much I had enjoyed her performance, and she signed some lovely remarks on my programme.
Her very recent death is a sad loss to the world of music.

From Stephen Brivati
Posted on June 10, 2004 at 11:48 PM

Greetings,
damn, she must have still been quite young. I hope she has some great obituries. She was a really high level force on the European music scene. DOn@T know how wlel she was known in the uS.
Cheers,
Buri

From Mattias Eklund
Posted on June 11, 2004 at 04:50 AM

Iona Brown was born in Salisbury, England, in 1941, and died last Sunday, at the age of 63. She was a victim of cancer.
She joined St. Martin in the Fields 1964, when she was 23.

From ian Brown
Posted on June 13, 2004 at 08:29 AM

I should have mentioned in my last message that Ian Brown (pianist with the Nash Ensemble) is, of course, Iona Brown's younger brother.
The musical talents of this Brown family know no bounds - Iona's other brother, Timothy, is the principle horn with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and her sister, Sally, is a violist with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

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