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US aviation bill creates national policy for instruments on planes
Musicians in the US have cause for celebration after Congress approved provisions for a uniform national policy on carrying instruments on planes. The provisions are included in the Federal Aviation Authority bill, which after 23 short-term extensions since 2007 has now been reauthorised for the next four years. ...
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Atos Trio wins Borletti-Buitoni Trust fellowship
The UK's Borletti-Buitoni Trust has awarded a £15,000 special ensemble fellowship to the Atos Trio. The German ensemble comprises violinist Annette von Hehn, cellist Stefan Heinemeyer and pianist Thomas Hoppe. The Trust has also given fellowships worth £12,000 each to German cellist Maximilian Hornung and the violin–piano duo of ...
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Fiddler Rona Wilkie is crowned BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2012
Fiddle player Rona Wilkie, 22, from Oban, has won the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2012 competition. She beat five other competitiors in the grand final at Glasgow's City Halls. Wilkie wins a recording session with BBC Scotland, a performance at the Scots Trad Music Awards and a year's ...
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Austrian cellist Kian Soltani wins Antonio Janigro Competition
Kian Soltani won first prize at the Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition in Zagreb, Croatia. The 19-year-old Austrian, who studies with Ivan Monighetti at the Basel Music Academy, received HRK 60,000 (£6,500). Joon Ho Shim of South Korea took second prize. Third prize went to Polish cellist Tomasz Daroch.
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ArticleAn interesting scroll by Antonio Casini
In the diagrams below, Christophe Landon and François Denis illustrate one theory as to how the Modena maker Antonio Casini (1630–90) designed the scroll of a 1668 cello. Read an article comparing two Casini cellos in the March 2016 issue, on sale now ...
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Cleveland Institute of Music appoints Czech violinist Ivan Zenaty to faculty
Czech violinist Ivan Zenaty will join the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) in autumn 2012. Zenaty, who studied with Josef Suk and made his debut with the Czech Philharmonic in 1983, has taught for the past 15 years at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber ...
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra offers free webcasts
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has launched a high-definition webcast player allowing users to view a series of concerts for free. According to an Associated Press report, the orchestra said that it is the first US orchestra to offer a series of free webcasts. The new webcast player mimics ...
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Hallé orchestra to perform Bernstein musical Wonderful Town
Sixty-five members of the Manchester-based Hallé orchestra will perform for a new production of Bernstein's Wonderful Town, forming what the show's producers are calling one of the biggest orchestras ever used for a musical. Mark Elder will conduct the orchestra for 16 performances at the Lowry in Salford between ...
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Violinist Alexander Velinzon appointed Seattle Symphony concertmaster
Alexander Velinzon has been appointed concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony. The Russian-born violinist has been assistant concertmaster of Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2005. He will start his new role in June of this year. Velinzon succeeds Maria Larionoff, who stepped down at the end of the 2010–11 season. Born ...
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ArticleSchnittke: String Quartets nos.1–4, Canon in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A Canadian ensemble brings out the songfulness of a modern Russian master’s quartetsMusicians: Molinari QuartetComposer: SchnittkeSchnittke’s four string quartets appeared variously between 1966 and 1989, announced by a work composed originally for the Borodin Quartet that draws upon the micro-gesturing and sonic profiling ...
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ArticleThe Mahler Album. Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony no.5, Adagio from Symphony no.10 (arr. Stadlmair). Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor op.95 ‘Serioso’ (arr. Mahler)
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: An unusual but telling contribution to the recent Mahler anniversaries from a leading string orchestraMusicians: Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Candida ThompsonComposer: Mahler (arr. Stadlmair), Beethoven (arr. Mahler)Cast aside any accusations of ‘bleeding chunks’ with this celebration of Mahler: the composer himself often programmed the Adagietto ...
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ArticleThe American Album. Dvorák: String Quartet in F major op.96 ‘American’. Griffes: Two Sketches Based on Indian Themes. Barber: String Quartet in B minor op.11
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Quartets that express different aspects of the American experienceMusicians: Cypress QuartetComposer: Dvorák, Griffes, Barber The booklet describes the Cypress sound as being built up from the bottom register, and in Ethan Filner’s introductory viola motif to Dvo?ák’s ‘American’ Quartet ...
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ArticleBrahms: Viola Sonatas op.120
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Bel canto meets Brahms in some perhaps over-lovingly tended sonata performancesMusicians: Danilo Rossi (viola) Stefano Bezziccheri (piano)Composer: BrahmsThis latest in the apparently unending line of Brahms viola sonata recordings comes from south of the Alps. Danilo Rossi is principal viola at the ...
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ArticleJanácek: Violin Sonata. Schumann: Violin Sonata no. 2 in D minor op.121. Schubert: Fantasy in C major D934
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Mixed success in a recital of varied violin repertoireMusicians: Frank Stadler (violin) Luis MagalhÁes (piano)Composer: Janácek, Schumann, SchubertThe powerful opening chords set the scene for Frank Stadler’s impressively intense performance of Schumann’s Second Sonata. Perfectly capturing the wide mood swings that picture ...
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ArticleReger: Three Suites for solo cello op.131c
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Even top performances can’t rescue Reger’s suites from the practice roomMusicians: Ulrich Horn (cello)Composer: RegerReger’s cello suites are a little bit like cod liver oil: they’re good for you, but would you want to live on them alone? There are a few ...
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ArticleFauré: Piano Quartet in C minor op.15. Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor op.25
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Some fine performances let down by a piano-dominated balanceMusicians: Primrose Piano QuartetComposer: Fauré & BrahmsThis CD was recorded using a Blüthner piano chosen by Brahms in 1896 for a young British pianist, Margarita Hanson, who had met him while she was studying ...
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ArticleReinecke: Cello Sonatas in A minor op.42, D major op.89 & G major op.238
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Neglected Romantic cello sonatas brought alluringly to lifeMusicians: Manuel Fischer-Dieskau (cello) Connie Shih (piano)Composer: ReineckeThree Romantic sonatas for the cello ought to be enough to set the pulses racing given the relative paucity of worthy material from this period. However, although these ...
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ArticleLeighton: Partita op.35, Elegy op.5, Sonata for Cello Solo op.52, Alleluia Pascha Nostrum op.85
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A welcome collection of music by a master writer for the celloMusicians: Raphael Wallfisch (cello) Raphael Terroni (piano)Composer: LeightonRaphael Wallfisch adds yet another high-quality disc of English music to his impressively extensive discography, with Kenneth Leighton’s complete chamber works for cello. As ...
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ArticleSchumann: String Quartets op.41, Piano Quintet in E flat major op.44
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Recordings of Schumann that are just a little too individualistic for comfortMusicians: Gringolts Quartet, Peter Laul (piano)Composer: SchumannHow you take to the performances by the Gringolts Quartet depends very much on how you respond to the playing of Ilya Gringolts himself in the first violinist’s ...
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ArticleMozart: String Quartet in C major K465 ‘Dissonance’. Schubert: String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A young quartet belies its name in the subtle colouring of its playingMusicians: Chiaroscuro QuartetComposer: Mozart & SchubertFormed in 2005 at the Royal College of Music, the Chiaroscuro Quartet has the inestimable advantage of having Alina Ibragimova as its leader. ...
