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ArticleRautavaara: Lost Landscapes, Summer Thoughts, April Lines, Notturno e danza, Variétude, Dithyrambos, Pelimannit
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Little sense of indulgent nostalgia in violin works by a Finnish master looking backMusicians: Pekka Kuusisto (violin) Paavali Jumppanen (piano)Composer: RautavaaraLost Landscapes (2005) conveys the memories of a septuagenarian recalling student days spent in America’s Tanglewood summer school, reliving his period immersed ...
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ArticleBach: Goldberg Variations (arr. Sitkovetsky)
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: An account of Bach’s masterpiece that pays tribute to its keyboard originsMusicians: Leopold String TrioComposer: Bach (arr. Sitkovetsky)Dmitry Sitkovetsky arranged Bach’s great keyboard work for string trio with a delicate, sensitive hand, an approach followed in turn by the Leopold String Trio ...
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ArticleValls: Music for double bass and piano
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Revival of bass music by a Bottesini acolyteMusicians: Leon Bosch (double bass) Sung-Suk Kang (piano)Composer: VallsThe Spanish bassist–composer Pedro Valls was directly influenced by the virtuoso salon style of Giovanni Bottesini. His experiences of Bottesini’s performances in Barcelona and his instruction from ...
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ArticleBirth of the Violin. Works for solo violin by Westhoff, Biber, Pisendel, Geminiani, Matteis, Guillemain & Rust
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Variable success in an exploration of early violin repertoireMusicians: Rebekka Hartmann (violin)Composer: Westhoff, Biber, Pisendel, Geminiani, Matteis, Guillemain & RustFew successfully combine stylish Baroque string playing with an itinerant career as a concerto soloist in Classical and Romantic repertoire. However, Rebekka Hartmann ...
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ArticleMiniatures Catalanes. Music by ToldrÁ , MossiÁ , Mompou, Gray, Blancafort, Cassadó, Granados, etc
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A rewarding trip to the Catalan salonMusicians: Kalina Macuta (violin) Daniel Blanch (piano)Composer: ToldrÁ , MossiÁ , Mompou, Gray, Blancafort, Cassadó, Granados, etcThese two discs, together with their excellent accompanying booklet, provide a short résumé of the wealth of music for violin ...
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ArticleItalia. Vivaldi: Violin Concerto ‘Grosso Mogul’, Violin Concerto in A minor, Summer from The Four Seasons, Vedro con mio diletto, Nulla in mundo pax sincera. Tartini: ‘Devil’s Trill’ Sonata, Violin Co
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: An enjoyable collection of Baroque repertoire from a young virtuosoMusicians: Nicola Benedetti (violin) Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Christian CurnynComposer: Vivaldi, Tartini, VeraciniNicola Benedetti, a Scot of Italian parentage, is quite at home in this collection of Italian Baroque music in the company of the ...
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ArticleOne More Day
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Short but sweet: a meeting of different popular styles Musicians: Kono Michi: Michi Wiancko (violin/vocals) Mike Sorensen Small (guitars/bass) Grant Pringle (drums/percussion)Composer: VariousThis EP of just four songs offers a nicely sized taste of Kono Michi’s rather original musical world, in which ...
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Kelemen and Zaïde quartets share first prize in Beijing contest
The Kelemen Quartet, from Hungary, and the Zaïde Quartet, from France, shared the top prize at the Beijing International Music Competition. Each quartet received $15,000. The Quiroga Quartet from Spain won third prize, with no second prize being awarded.
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Beethoven quartet movement receives premiere in Manchester
A lost Beethoven quartet movement is receiving its premiere in Manchester tomorrow, after a British academic pieced it together from fragments. Beethoven wrote the slow movement for his op.18 no.2 quartet in 1799 but discarded it in favour of a revised version. The original movement has not survived, but Barry ...
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German violinist Christian Tetzlaff signs to Ondine
Christian Tetzlaff has signed a long-term recording deal with Finnish label Ondine. The German violinist's first recording with the label will feature concertos by Mendelssohn and Schumann with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi. The disc is set for release in November. Further releases in autumn 2012 ...
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American Erin Keefe, 31, takes Minnesota Orchestra concertmaster chair
Erin Keefe has been appointed concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra. The 31-year-old American succeeds Jorja Fleezanis, who left the orchestra in 2009. Keefe studied at the Juilliard School of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music, and her teachers included Ronald Copes, Ida Kavafian, Arnold Steinhardt, Philip Setzer, Philipp ...
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Philadelphia Orchestra plans to help China nurture orchestral musicians
The Philadelphia Orchestra has signed an agreement with Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts to start a cultural exchange programme. The partnership aims to help find and nurture the next generation of Chinese orchestral musicians. Other plans involve performances by the orchestra in Beijing and other Chinese cities, ...
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Artists, academics urge London Philharmonic Orchestra to reconsider suspension of four string players
Groups of artists and academics have written separate letters to The Telegraph and The Guardian urging the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) to reinstate the four musicians it suspended after they signed a letter calling for the BBC to cancel an Israel Philharmonic concert. Figures including film directors ...
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Chicago Lyric Opera violist Keith Abbott Conant dies at the age of 49
Keith Abbott Conant, the principal violist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra has died of a heart attack at the age of 49. He had been a member of the orchestra since 1987, and its principal violist since 1997. Born in Rockville Centre, New York, Conant studied viola ...
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Spanish violinist Ana María Valderrama wins Sarasate contest
Ana María Valderrama has won the €10,000 first prize at the Pablo Sarasate International Violin Competition in Pamplona, Spain. The 26-year-old Spaniard is a masters student at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, where she studies with Antje Weithaas.Second prize went to Ji Yoon Lee, 19, from South ...
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Violin case deemed offensive weapon by Edinburgh police
A violin case, a pizza shovel, a quill pen, a potato peeler and a pool ball in a sock are among hundreds of unusual items that police in Edinburgh have confiscated since 2009. The items were either used in attacks or deemed offensive weapons. Police seized the pizza shovel ...
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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein receives $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship
Alisa Weilerstein will receive $500,000 in no-strings-attached support over the next five years after being named as a MacArthur Fellow. The 29-year-old cellist was awarded the so-called 'genius' grant by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Weilerstein was one of 22 individuals chosen as 2011 MacArthur Fellows. ...
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London Philharmonic Orchestra suspends cellist and violinists
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) has suspended four of its musicians for up to nine months after they signed a letter calling on the BBC to cancel a Proms concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Cellist Sue Sutherley and violinists Tom Eisner, Nancy Elan and Sarah Streatfeild were among ...
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Rodolfo Lipizer Competition win for violinist Stefan Tarara
Stefan Tarara has won first prize at the Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Gorizia, Italy. The 25-year-old German, who studies with Zakhar Bron at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim, received €12,000. Second prize was shared between 24-year-old Ermir Abeshi, from Albania, and Maria Milchtein, 25, ...
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Violin pupils set world record for mass violin playing in Taiwan
A total of 4,645 children from Changhua county in central Taiwan played their violins together in a stadium on Sunday 18 September. The event, which was witnessed by a Guinness World Records official, set a new world record for mass violin playing. The previous record was set in London in ...
