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Violinist gives away her music online

A leading British violinist is going a step further than Radiohead's pay-what-you-like strategy and is allowing fans to download her next recording free.

Tasmin Little, one of the world's leading solo violinists, says she hopes the move will help change classical music's elitist image.

She is putting her first new recording in four years, The Naked Violin, online next Monday. Ms Little said: "Classical music has this reputation that you need a certain kind of education to listen to it, you need to be a certain colour or live in a certain place and I'm fed up with that. I'm excited and adore the idea of someone in Africa or South America downloading my music."

At the start of the album she explains what the music is in an attempt to make it more accessible. The recording is of Bach's Partita No 3 in E Major, Paul Patterson's Luslawice Variations, and Sonata No 3 Ballade by Eugene Ysaÿe.

Ms Little studied at the Yehudi Menuhin school and has performed with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic.

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