Round the World and Bach

busking  by David Juritz (www.davidjuritz.com)to raise money for Musequality  

To hear David busk on my violin outside 10 Downing street click here ,  to hear him play the Chaconne click here or to hear him play Bach and Piozolla at Brooklyn Heights click here

 

"'I have owned a Brian Lisus violin for fifteen years and have, ever since then, been a huge admirer of his work. I commissioned a new violin from him for my recent Round the World and Bach charity busk. This new instrument is a superlative example. Both its tonal quality and exquisite craftsmanship have drawn very appreciative comments wherever I have played it and it has been a wonderfully rewarding companion for me during a four-and-a-half month solitary trek round the world. I have become very attached to it and it will be a real wrench for me when we auction it next year in aid of the charity, Musequality.'"

Click on pictures for larger versions of Round the World and Bach violin.

All these pictures were taken by well known Cape Town photographer Tony Elliott Tony's web site

Brian -

I met David Juritz in Seattle this week and both heard him play and myself played your violin.  It's a beautiful instrument with a beautiful tone -- responsive, balanced, expressive, quick, terrific under the ear and at a distance.  In the last few months I have played a couple of Stradivari in New York, a good Gaudagnini, two Gaglianos, a J. B. Vuillaume and a Ste. Cecile Vuillaume, a Landolfi (like the one I grew up on, but authentic!) and a few other big violins.  Violins are like people, and a player's appreciation of them is limited, in a manner of speaking, by mutual intelligence, mutual facility and desire.  Your violin was all I ask, and more than I expect.  Congratulations.

Regards,

Mike Brown