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ArticleMarc Coppey – Bloch: Schelomo, Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor; Silent Woods op.68
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: November 2017Description: Unusually fine versions of much-recorded cello worksMusicians: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Kirill KarabitsComposer: Bloch, Dvořák Catalogue Number: AUDITE 97.734 It’s a truism that fashion and taste exert quite an influence on performance styles in each decade. Here, Marc Coppey ...
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ArticleMendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor op.64; Symphony no.5 ‘Reformation’ op.107; Concert Overture ‘The Hebrides’ op.26
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: November 2017Description: A familiar concerto sounds freshly minted and in tip-top conditionMusicians: Isabelle Faust (violin), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Pablo Heras-CasadoComposer: Mendelssohn Catalogue Number: HARMONIA MUNDI HMM 902325 How refreshing it is to witness a soloist adopting some of the recommendations ...
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ArticleIronwood: Brahms, Piano Quartet no.1; Piano Quintet
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS Strad Issue: June 2017Everything’s right in these exquisitely played period performances Musicians: Ironwood: Robin Wilson, Rachael Beesley (violins), Nicole Forsyth (viola), Daniel Yeadon (cello), Neal Peres Da Costa (piano) Composer: Brahms Catalogue Number: ABC CLASSICS 481 4686 This beautiful ...
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ArticleFlying high: an El Sistema inspired music education programme in China
Inspired by Venezuela’s El Sistema, China’s Wings of Music aims to bring dignity and self-belief to some of the country’s most deprived children. Nancy Pellegrini reports in this article from 2013
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ArticleTelegraph Quartet named San Francisco Conservatory of Music quartet-in-residence
The ensemble will take up the post from the 2017-18 season for a period of three years
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ArticleHarrison: Concerto for violin and percussion, Grand Duo; Harrison/Cage: Double Music
Sonically delightful music that runs the gamut from gamelan to Renaissance
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ArticleLara Boschkor wins Tonali Violin Competition in Germany
The 17-year-old Kronberg Academy student took home the top prize of €10,000 for her performance of Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto
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ArticleAn ensemble of Stradivarius instruments - and one Amati - in Mozart
Five Stradivari instruments (two violins, one viola, two cellos) and one Amati viola are performed together at the Museo del Violino in Cremona, Italy. The ensemble features members of the Stradivari Quartet alongside violist Simone Gramaglia and cellist David Pia in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, K364. The instruments ...
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ArticleFrom the Archive: the 'Adam' Guarneri 'del Gesù' violin, 1738
This illustration of a violin by Guarneri 'del Gesù' was published in The Strad, December 1987. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photograph: Guarneri 'del Gesù' drew together all the strands of Cremonese and Brescian makers, and with great force of character, created ...
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ArticleGlass: Violin Concerto no.1; Bernstein: Serenade (after Plato’s ‘Symposium’)
These two 20th-century violin concertos make uneasy bedfellows
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ArticleFauré: Cello Sonatas: no.1 in D minor op.109, no.2 in G minor op.117; Romance in A major op.69; Au bord de l’eau; Après un rêve, Saint-Saëns: Romances: op.36, op.51; Cello Sonata no.1 in C minor op.32
Eloquent, balanced performances that both sparkle and sing
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ArticleElgar: Introduction and Allegro op.471, Symphony no.1 in A flat major op.55
Elegant Elgar, given shape and depth by quartet and orchestra
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ArticleViolinist Renaud Capuçon performs solo Bach
French violinist Renaud Capuçon performs the Allemande from Bach's Second Partita for solo violin in D minor BWV 1004 in a performance recorded in October 2016 for Le Temps. Watch: Renaud Capuçon rehearses Beethoven’s Violin Concerto 2017 Watch: Renaud Capuçon performs Korngold’s Violin Concerto
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ArticleExiles - Bloch: Schelomo, From Jewish Life (arr. Cyrille Lehn); Korngold: Cello Concerto in One Movement in C major op.371, Tanzlied des Pierrot from Die tote Stadt; Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Them
Impassioned, expressive playing in music filled with aching longing
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ArticleViolinist Rachel Podger on matching technique and musicality
Often you find that technique and musicality marry quite well. Something that works musically will so often also work from a technical perspective. And the opposite is also true - that if you change a passage for technical reasons it suddenly makes more musical sense too!' Baroque ...
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ArticleViolinist Joanna Frankel named Columbus Symphony concertmaster
The first female to be appointed to the role in the orchestra's history, Frankel has served as the Symphony's acting concertmaster since September 2016
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ArticleBloch: Cello Sonata, Suite for cello and piano (transc. Rejto/Baller), Nigun (arr. Schuster), From Jewish Life, Méditation hébraïque
Sympathetic performances of Jewish-inspired cello music
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ArticleConductor Riccardo Muti to lead joint Italian and Iranian orchestral concerts
Celebrating 20 years of Muti's 'Roads of Friendship' initiative, the performances by Italian and Iranian musicians take place in Tehran on 6 July and in Ravenna on 8 July
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ArticleTips for touring musicians - by Cincinnati Symphony concertmaster Timothy Lees
The violinist gives advice on staying grounded and rested, adjusting to different halls, and keeping each performance fresh during an orchestral concert tour
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ArticleRay Chen rehearses Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Ray Chen rehearses Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko for performances that took place on 22 and 23 June 2017. The video features commentary and insights from Chen about the concerto - the first work he ever played with an ...
