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ArticleBach: Cello Suites no.2 in D minor BWV1008, no.4 in E flat major BWV1010 & no.6 in D major BWV1012
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A disappointingly recorded survey of the even-numbered Bach Cello SuitesMusicians: Sara Sant’Ambrogio (cello)Composer: BachBach’s Cello Suites attract cellists to the recording studio like bees to a honey pot, with the result that virtually every player seems to see it as their right ...
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ArticleC.P.E. Bach: Viola da gamba Sonatas in G minor Wq88, C major Wq136 & D major Wq137 ABEL Solo Pieces in D major WK186, WK187 & WK190, Viola da gamba Sonata in E minor WK150
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: An attractive disc of 18th-century gamba sonatasMusicians: Rebeka Rusó (viola da gamba) Sebastian Wienand (fortepiano)Composer: C.P.E. BachPerfectly matched in their instinctive musicianship and stylistic sensibility, Rebeka Rusó and Sebastian Wienand can hardly be faulted in these performances, full of remarkable vision and ...
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ArticleAmerican Music. Reich: Different Trains. Barber: String Quartet. Crumb: Black Angels
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Commanding performances of American quartets from different traditionsMusicians: Diotima QuartetComposer: Reich, Barber, CrumbThe French-based Diotima Quartet is renowned for its interpretations of hardcore contemporary music – think Ferneyhough, Boulez, Lachenmann. So the three very different American works on this disc – one ...
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ArticleEvening Songs. Delius/Ireland: Songs arr. cello & piano
The Strad Issue: Feburary 2012Description: Two notable anniversaries celebrated in a delectable collection of song arrangementsMusicians: Julian Lloyd Webber, Jiaxin Cheng (cello) John Lenehan (piano)Composer: Delius/IrelandTo coincide with the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Delius and the 50th of the death of John Ireland, Julian ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A remarkable testament to a great violinist that transcends its sonic inadequaciesMusicians: Henri Temianka (violin) Leonard Shure (piano)Composer: BeethovenAlthough technically Scottish, Henri Temianka had a continental European background and musical education, with Polish–Jewish parents and time spent studying in Rotterdam, ...
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ArticleFranck: Violin Sonata in A major (transc. Delsart). Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor. Poulenc: Cello Sonata
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A welcome collection of three Gallic cello sonatasMusicians: Anne Gastinel (cello) Claire Désert (piano)Composer: Franck (transc. Delsart), Debussy, PoulencFrench cellist Anne Gastinel returns to her roots in this disc, celebrating 20 years since her first recording. Claire Désert creates a still, quiet ...
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Man is caught on CCTV taking quartet player's £25k violin
British Transport Police have released CCTV images of a man who took a violin from the luggage rack of a London train at around 8am on 8 February. The instrument, which belongs to Brodowski Quartet violinist Catrin Win Morgan, is a Stradivari copy by Montpellier maker Frédéric Chaudière. Worth ...
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Violinist Maxim Vengerov takes Royal Academy of Music teaching post
London's Royal Academy of Music (RAM) has appointed Maxim Vengerov to the new position of Menuhin Professor of Music. In his new role, the violinist will visit the RAM every term to work with students in masterclasses and one-to-one lessons. Vengerov will kick off his new professorship on Monday 27 ...
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Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet to take off in Birmingham
A multimedia performance of Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet has been commissioned from Birmingham Opera Company as part of a new £3.5m digital arts platform in the UK. Arts Council England and the BBC have commissioned 53 projects for The Space, which will run between May and October and be ...
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Royal Academy of Music appoints violinist Margaret Faultless as head of historical performance
Margaret Faultless will become the new head of historical performance at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London in September 2012. The violinist and director will succeed Laurence Cummings in the role. Faultless has been a co-leader of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment since 1989. For ...
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Myung-Whun Chung to conduct North Korean orchestra in joint concert with French orchestra
An orchestra from North Korea will play a concert with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra in Paris on 14 March, reports AFP. Seventy musicians from the Unhasu Orchestra will join 70 players from the French orchestra to play music by Brahms, and non-classical scores, at the Salle Pleyel. ...
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London Symphony Orchestra to give free Trafalgar Square performance
The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) will swap the Barbican Hall for the rather more challenging acoustic of Trafalgar Square when it performs a Stravinsky programme on Saturday 12 May. The event is the first in a new series of annual open-air performances that the LSO will give in association with ...
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Competition winner gets to record on 300-year-old Stradivari violin
A 16-year-old has won a competition to play and record on a 300-year-old Stradivari violin. Laura Ayoub was chosen to play a piece of her choice at London's SARM Studios. She also received a masterclass with Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti, who paid a surprise visit to the recording studio. ...
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Violinist and violist Ida Kavafian to join Juilliard faculty
The Juilliard School has appointed Ida Kavafian to its violin faculty from autumn 2012. The violinist and violist, who studied at Juilliard with Oscar Shumsky, is a longtime member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and former violinist of the Beaux Arts Trio. She teaches at the Curtis ...
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Violinist from Nazareth wins 'courage in the arts' award
A 34-year-old violinist from Nazareth has been named as one of the recipients of the 2012 Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Awards for the Arts. Nabeel Abboud-Ashkar is a member of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and is the general director of the Barenboim-Said Conservatory in Nazareth and the Barenboim-Said Music Centre ...
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Paul Watkins to replace David Finckel as Emerson Quartet cellist
The Emerson Quartet has announced that cellist David Finckel will leave the ensemble at the end of the 2012–13 season. His replacement will be the British cellist and conductor Paul Watkins. The personnel change is the quartet's first since 1979, when Finckel replaced original cellist Eric Wilson three years after ...
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ArticleViolinist David Garrett to star as Paganini in movie biopic of his hero
David Garrett is set to make his movie debut as Paganini in a new biopic of the great violinist and composer, reports Variety. The Devil's Violinist has a budget of between $15m and $20m, and is due to begin filming in Europe this August. The film's writer ...
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra launches internet concerto competition for soloist
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is using the internet to find a worthy concerto soloist for one of its 2012–13 subscription programmes. Violinists, cellists and other instrumentalists can upload audition videos on YouTube in a competition that the PSO claims is the first of its kind by a major ...
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French violinist Devy Erlih dies in road accident
The violinist, conductor and pedagogue Devy Erlih died in a road accident in Paris on Tuesday morning. He was on his way to the École normale de musique when he was hit by a truck. He was 83 years old. Born in Paris in 1928 to Romanian–Jewish parents, Erlih ...
