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ArticleSpirit Song. Works by Jacopo da Bologna, Alexander, B. Turetzky, Hauta-aho & Fricker
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Intriguing but flawed collection from the veteran US duoMusicians: Bertram Turetzky (double bass) Nancy Turetzky (flute)Composer: Jacopo da Bologna, Alexander, B. Turetzky, Hauta-aho & FrickerSpirit Song is Bertram and Nancy Turetzky’s celebration of 50 years of marriage and music making, bringing together ...
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ArticleAlone. Kodäly: Sonata for solo cello. Shchedrin: Russian Fragments. Sollima: Lame, Alone. Schnittke: Improvisation. Casals: Song of the Birds (arr. Geringas)
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A rewarding solo cello recital from a talented Russian playerMusicians: Boris Andrianov (cello)Composer: Kodäly, Shchedrin, Sollima, Schnittke, Casals (arr. Geringas)Boris Andrianov may not often commit himself to disc – his last solo recording was five years ago – but when he does ...
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ArticleChris Stout’s Brazilian Theory: Live In Concert
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Sparks fly in a multi-continental meeting of fiddle traditionsMusicians: Chris Stout (fiddle) Thomas Rohrer (rabeca/saxophone) Catriona McKay (harp) Carlinhos Antunes (guitar/vocals) Ian Stephenson (guitar) Rui Barossi, Neil Harland (double bass) MartinuO’Neill (bodhran)Composer: Trad.Shetland fiddler Chris Stout leads a pan-global gathering on this ...
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ArticleHandel: Complete Violin Sonatas
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Stylish accounts of Handel from a German-based ensembleMusicians: Ensemble Vintage Köln: Ariadne Daskalakis (violin) Rainer Zipperling (viola da gamba/cello) Gerald Hambitzer (harpsichord)Composer: HandelThese performers give pride of place to the five echt violin sonatas, but acknowledge the merits of the ...
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ArticleSainte-Colombe: Concerts Á deux violes esgales
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Two masters of the viol in music from the French BaroqueMusicians: Wieland Kuijken, Jordi Savall (bass viol)Composer: Sainte-ColombeThe recordings for this two-disc set were originally made in 1976 and 1992. They embrace ten of Sainte-Colombe’s 67 Concerts, which comprise not only popular ...
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ArticleYoffe: Song of Songs
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Exquisite performances of a sequence of miniatures that unfortunately quickly pallsMusicians: Rosamunde Quartet, Hilliard EnsembleComposer: YoffeRussian-born composer Boris Yoffe’s Book of Quartets is a remarkable project – an ongoing series of short, often single-page pieces for string quartet that he reputedly composes ...
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Croatian duo 2Cellos to play on US TV show Glee
2Cellos, the young Croatian duo and cover stars of The Strad's January issue, will appear on the hit Fox TV show Glee on 31 January in the US. Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser will perform 'Smooth Criminal', the track that made them YouTube sensations, in a special Michael Jackson tribute ...
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Chicago violin shop owner sues online critic
Chunyee Lu, a restorer and dealer in Chicago, has launched a libel lawsuit against an online writer who posted critical comments about his Guadagnini Violin Shop on reviews websites. According to Lu's lawyer, the writer posted under various names, but all the messages have been traced to the same IP ...
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Juilliard's historical performance programme receives $20m gift
The Juilliard School's graduate-level historical performance programme has been endowed to the tune of $20m with a gift from the school's board chairman, Bruce Kovner. The programme, which began in 2009 and focuses on music from the 17th and 18th centuries, offers tuition-free training for student violinists, cellists, double ...
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Stradivari cello once owned by Bernard Greenhouse nets record sum at auction
A 1707 Stradivari cello that was owned by Bernard Greenhouse for half a century has been sold by sealed bid for a record price. According to the New York Times, the 'Countess of Stanlein' cello was bought by a Montreal arts patron for in excess of $6m. Christopher Reuning, the ...
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US debut for Menuhin Violin Competition
The Menuhin Competition, the two-yearly international contest for violinists under the age of 22, will be staged in the US for the first time in 2014. It will be hosted by the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. The number of American participants at ...
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ArticleViolist Matthew Lipman wins Minneapolis Young Artist Competition
Violist Matthew Lipman won the $7,500 first prize and the $1,000 grand prize at the WAMSO Minnesota Orchestra Volunteer Association's Young Artist Competition in Minneapolis, US. Lipman, 19, studies with Heidi Castleman at the Juilliard School of Music. Second prize went to cellist Hans Goldstein, 23. Violist ...
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Violin pedagogue Jaroslav Vanecek dies aged 91
Jaroslav Vanecek, the Czech-born violin and viola pedagogue, has died at the age of 91. His career teaching in the UK and Ireland spanned seven decades, from 1949 until 2001. Born in Bratislava in 1920, Vanecek studied at the National Conservatoire in Prague, where his violin tutors included ...
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Violinist Sarah Streatfeild launches legal claim against London Philharmonic Orchestra
Violinist Sarah Streatfeild, one of four string players suspended by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), is taking a claim for discrimination on the grounds of belief to an employment tribunal, reports the Guardian. Streatfeild, along with violinists Tom Eisner and Nancy Elan, and cellist Sue Sutherley, was suspended ...
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Carnegie Hall announces youth orchestra
Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute will launch a National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) in 2013. Around 120 instrumentalists will get the chance to work with principals from top US orchestras during a two-week residency at Purchase College, State University of New York. The orchestra will ...
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Double bassist and composer Stefano Scodanibbio dies at 55
Stefano Scodanibbio, the double bass player and composer, died on 8 January at the age of 55. A tireless champion both of new music and of the double bass as a solo instrument, he was well known for his collaborations with composer Terry Riley. Born in Macerata, Italy, in ...
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PayPal blamed for destruction of $2,500 violin
An online seller has claimed that the money-handling company PayPal ordered the destruction of a $2,500 French violin that she sold to a buyer in Canada. The seller, known as Erica, told the website regretsy.com that the buyer had disputed the violin's Maurice Bourguignon label, and said that because PayPal ...
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Hollywood violinist Israel Baker dies aged 92
Violinist Israel Baker, a leading soloist in Los Angeles in the 1960s, died on Christmas Day at the age of 92. Born in Chicago, Baker got his first concertmaster post with the Dayton (Ohio) Philharmonic. A year later he was hired by Stokowski to join the All-American Youth Orchestra, and ...
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Musician seeks London Underground orchestra
A musician has set himself the challenge of forming a full symphony orchestra from strangers he meets on the London Underground. Shaun Buswell, who cannot read music, will then compose a work for the orchestra to perform at one of twelve top London venues on 12 December 2012. The 12.12.12 ...
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Stradivari loses out in blind-testing study of player preferences for old and new violins
The results of a double-blind test held at last September's International Violin Competition of Indianapolis reveal some notable insights into player preferences between new and old violins. The experiment, the details of which have been published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was devised and led ...
