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ArticleChiaroscuro Quartet and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout perform Mozart
UK period ensemble the Chiaroscuro Quartet - violinists Alina Ibragimova and Pablo Hernán Benedí, violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion - performs Mozart's Piano Concerto no.12 with pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout in a video filmed by BR-Klassik. In The Strad's July 2017 issue the Chiaroscuro Quartet ...
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Dvorák: Piano trios nos.3 and 4 ‘Dumky’
Beautifully balanced light and shade leave little wanting
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Musician told to leave Aer Lingus flight for attempting to stow her violin in the cabin
Freelance musician and Alexander Technique tutor Aingeala De Búrca claims that she was removed from the flight from Bristol to Dublin this week when she attempted to stow her instrument in the overhead locker
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5 ways for musicians to receive concert and festival bookings
Erik Christian Peterson and Emily Ondracek-Peterson - co-artistic directors of the Crested Butte Music Festival and members of the Voxare String Quartet - share five attributes presenters look for when booking musicians
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Glière: Deux pièces op.32, Deux morceaux op.9; Koussevitzky: Chanson triste op.2, Valse miniature op.1 no.2; Bruch: Kol nidrei; Brahms: Cello Sonata no.1 in E minor op.38
Virtuoso double bassist gives cellists a run for their money
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Vibrato in slow motion - on violin and cello
As part of a series of studies on vibrato pitch centre (2004, 2005, 2014), researchers Rebecca MacLeod of the University of North Carolina and John Geringer of Florida State University asked 60 university string players and a former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic to perform a ...
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WIN the Chiaroscuro Quartet's latest Haydn CD
In the July 2017 issue of The Strad , we talk to the four members of the Chiaroscuro Quartet – violinists Alina Ibragimova and Pablo Hernán Benedí, violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion – about their continuing fascination with the works of Franz Joseph Haydn, whose string quartets they ...
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Hartmann: Concerto funèbre, Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in D minor, Respighi: Antiche danze ed arie (Suite no.3), Schubert: Rondo in A major for violin and string orchestra D438
Bohren dispenses with the myth of the difficult second album
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The Strad July 2017 issue is out now
UK period ensemble the Chiaroscuro Quartet discusses Haydn's 'Sun' quartets and the dawn of the string quartet genre
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Remembering Bernard Millant 1929–2017
The esteemed bow maker, dealer, author and expert died in April aged 87. Jean-François Raffin, who worked with Millant and co-authored the celebrated three-volume work L'Archet with him, remembers his friend and colleague
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Violinist Hilary Hahn performs music for babies
In the video above Hilary Hahn gives a concert for babies on 28 April 2017 in association with the Auditorium of the National Orchestra of Lyon. The violinist announced in March that she would give concerts for parents and babies, having identified a gap in the ...
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Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor op.64, String Octet in E flat major op.20
The Strad Issue: June 2017 Description: Searching musicianship yields some satisfying answers Musicians: Lisa Ferschtman (violin), Het Gelders Orkest/Kees Bakels Composer: Mendelssohn Catalogue Number: CHALLENGE CLASSICS CC72748 Does the world need another recording of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto? Liza Ferschtman bravely asks the question herself in the CD ...
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Music for Two Violas - Jacob: Sonatina, Druzhinin: Sinfonia a Due, Rubbra: Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn ‘O quando in cruce’ op.117a, Prokofiev: (arr. Vadim Borisovsky) Two movements from Romeo and
The Strad Issue: June 2017 Description: All roads lead back to Tertis in music for duetting violas Musicians: Peter Mallinson (viola), Matthias Wiesner (viola), Evgenia Startseva (piano), Oliver Lowe (triangle) Composer: Jacob, Druzhinin, Rubbra, Prokofiev, Bridge, Pytor Bulhakov, Khatchaturian Catalogue Number: MERIDIAN CDE 84641 It seems appropriate ...
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International Society of Bassists names winners of Performance and Makers competitions
Aaron Olguin was awarded the Gary Karr Prize in the Solo Division of the Performance Competition, while Convention Favourite in the Makers Competition was awarded to Arnold Schnitzer
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Violinist Ana Chumachenco on body movement when playing
When you play you are moving around everywhere, but in the most important places for you to be free - the arms and torso - you are tense' Italian violinist Ana Chumachenco discusses body movement in Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto in a masterclass recorded at the ...
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From the Archive: the Antonio Stradivari, 'Lord Norton', violin 1737
This illustration of a violin by Antonio Stradivari was published in The Strad, July 1987. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photograph: The violin is named after Lord Norton, who purchased it from George Hart shortly after the sale of the Gillot collection at Christies in ...
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Leonidas Kavakos acquires 1734 ‘Willemotte’ Stradivarius violin
The violinist first encountered the instrument in 1994 and was reunited with it more than 20 years later through Florian Leonhard Fine Violins
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Mozart: Sonatas for keyboard and violin: no.12 in G major K27, no.16 in B flat major K31, no.17 in C major K296, no.23 in D major K306, no.32 in B flat major K454, no.36 in F major K547 ‘For Beginners
The Strad Issue: June 2017 Description: Characteristically invigorating performances from two fine Mozartian’s Musicians: Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Composer: Mozart Catalogue Number: HYPERION CDA 68143 (2 CDs) This seasoned duo’s two-disc-for-one Mozart package takes in six works spanning more than 20 years from the two ...
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Cellists Thomas Mesa and Zlatomir Fung win 2017 Astral Auditions
The two cellists are among six young musicians chosen for the Astral Artists career development programme over the next four years
