All Wagner articles
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ReviewDanbi Um: Much Ado: Romantic Violin Pieces
A competition veteran makes her long-awaited solo debut album
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ReviewConcert review: Alisa Weilerstein (cello) New York Philharmonic/Nathalie Stutzmann
Leah Hollingsworth hears the cellist’s account of Prokofiev’s Sinfonia concertante op.125 at David Geffen Hall on 24 February 2023
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ReviewRenaud Capuçon: Un Violon à Paris
A tasteful and gorgeously performed collection of smooth violin sweetmeats
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FocusFrom the archive: how to annoy a great composer
In an extract from his memoirs, published in The Strad, January 1914, orchestral violinist William Quirke recalls Richard Wagner's arrival in London in 1877 for a series of concerts of his own work
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ArticleBeethoven: Violin Concerto in D major op.61, Leonore Overture no.3. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll*
The Strad Issue: January 2006Musicians: Leonid Kogan (violin) RAI Symphony Orchestras, Turin & Rome*, Rudolf Kempe (conductor)Composer: Beethoven, WagnerWhereas Heifetz never plumbed the depths of the Beethoven Concerto and Oistrakh rarely did so, Leonid Kogan seemed to have the measure of it from the outset. This 1956 ...
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ArticleWilliam Primrose – Viola Transcriptions. Zimbalist: Sarasateana. Plus arrangements of works by Borodin, Schubert, Beethoven, Wagner, Aguirre/Heifetz, Valle/Heifetz, Paganini, Villa-Lobos, Bizet, Tchai
The Strad Issue: January 2006Musicians: Roberto Díaz, Robert KoenigComposer: Zimbalist, Borodin, Schubert, Beethoven, Wagner, Aguirre/Heifetz, Valle/Heifetz, Paganini, Villa-Lobos, Bizet, Tchaikovsky & Brahms-(transc. Prmirose)William Primrose, in Yehudi Menuhin’s words ‘the first star of the viola’, was fond of peppering his concert programmes with short virtuoso pieces, of which ...