Video Gallery
Robin Aitchison’s cellos are being played around the world by soloists, chamber musicians and orchestral cellists in a fascinating range of classical and contemporary concerts. After The Cello Maker, the beautiful film about Robin’s work, you can browse through a series of videos of Robin’s instruments in action. The sound quality will be best if you use headphones or good speakers.
The Cello Maker: a film about Robin Aitchison made by the Academy of Ancient Music in 2019
Robin Aitchison and Stephen Orton discuss Stephen’s Montagnana copy
Samara Ginsberg plays her 2016 Aitchison Guadagnini copy by in her arrangement of the Inspector Gadget theme for 8 cellos
Abel Selaocoe performs the Adagio from Piatti’s Cello Sonata No. 7 in D Major, I. 84
Extract from Giovanni Sollima’s L.B. Files performed by Abel Selaocoe on his Montagnana copy by Robin Aitchison with BBC NOW.
Matthew Sharp performs the denouement from Death’s Cabaret – A Love Story on his copy of the ex-Pergamenschikow Montagnana cello by Robin Aitchison
Mikhail and Elena Nemtsov play the 3rd movement of the Roxburgh Sonata recorded live at the Warehouse London
Mikhail Nemtsov & the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg perform an arrangement of the Schubert Arpeggione sonata
Mikhail and Elena Nemtsov play Faure, Debussy & Saint-Saens in a recital at Manchester’s RNCM
Matthew Sharp performs the 1st movement from the Hans Gal Concertino for Cello and String Orchestra on his copy of the ex-Pergamenschikow Montagnana cello by Robin Aitchison
Urška Horvat and Helena Švigelj play the Gavotte from the Popper Suite for two Cellos, Op. 16 on copies of the ex-Pergamenschikow Montagnana cello by Robin Aitchison
Chris Murray performs with the Heath Quartet on his willow-backed copy of the Marquis de Corberon Stradivari of 1726
Stephen Orton performs with the Chilingirian Quartet on his copy of a Montagnana cello by Robin Aitchison
Photo sequence of Robin Aitchison carving a Montagnana scroll copy
Robin Aitchison, Andrew Ryan and Samuel Zygmuntowicz discuss the process they go through in setting up instruments for sound.