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ArticleLe Violoncelle Parle. Britten: Suite for solo cello no.3 op.87. Cassadó: Suite for solo cello. Amoyel: Itinérance. Kodály: Sonata for solo cello op.8
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Four highly varied solo cello works are given memorable performancesMusicians: Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello)Composer: Britten, Cassadó, Amoyel, KodályMuch-recorded French cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand brings her own blend of flair, elegance and impressive technique to these solo cello staples, resulting in stylish and characterful intepretations.Cassadó’s Suite, ...
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Two biopics about Italian composer Vivaldi in the works
Shooting is set to start on one of two rival Vivaldi biopics. Director Boris Damast will begin filming Vivaldi this September in Venice, Hungary, Germany and Bruges. Young actors Max Irons and Claire Foy have been cast in the film, and Jacqueline Bisset, Alfred Molina, Tom Wilkinson and Sebastian Koch ...
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ArticleAlwyn: Violin Concerto, Miss Julie Suite (arr. Lane), Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A rarely heard British violin concerto makes a distinctive markMusicians: Lorraine McAslan (violin) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/David Lloyd-JonesComposer: AlwynAt its completion in 1939, William Alwyn’s Violin Concerto already belonged to a previous generation, its influences coming from Elgar and Vaughan Williams. The central movement ...
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ArticleAston Between Worlds
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A composer–violinist’s tribute to her Cornish background lacks enchantmentMusicians: Sue Aston (violin/viola) Beck McGlade (cello) Rick Williams (guitar/double bass/clarinet) Maria Heseltine (mezzo-soprano) John Thomson (piano)Composer: Various Violinist and composer Sue Aston here presents a set of songs and folk-style tunes ...
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Violinists Frang and Repin win Edison awards
Violinists Vilde Frang and Vadim Repin have been named among the winners of this year's Edison Klassiek music awards. Frang won the Debut award for her recording of the Sibelius and Prokofiev First concertos on EMI with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne under Thomas Søndergård. Repin won the Chamber Music ...
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ArticleManto and Madrigals. Duos for violin and viola by Killius, Scelsi, Holliger, Bartók, Skalkottas, Maxwell Davies, Martinu & Nied
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A riveting collection of recent and established works for violin and violaMusicians: Thomas Zehetmair (violin) Ruth Killius (viola)Composer: Killius, Scelsi, Holliger, Bartók, Skalkottas, Maxwell Davies, Martinu & NiedThis adventurous selection of music for violin and viola begins where others end, the one ...
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ArticleBritten: Cello Symphony, Symphonic Suite from Gloriana, Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A deeply felt account of Britten’s symphony for cello and orchestraMusicians: Paul Watkins (cello) BBC Philharmonic/Edward GardnerComposer: BrittenIn using the term ‘symphony’ for the concerto he wrote for Rostropovich in 1962–3, Britten was partly trying to get away from the idea of the concertante ...
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ArticleItaly versus France. Works by Lully, Corelli, d’Anglebert, Rebel, Muffat, Couperin, Visée & Pasquini
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: The listener is the winner in this battle of musical stylesMusicians: The Bach PlayersComposer: Lully, Corelli, d’Anglebert, Rebel, Muffat, Couperin, Visée & Pasquini Debate over the relative merits of Italian and French musical styles ran through the 17th century. As Hugh Wood ...
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ArticleLe Grazie del Violino nel Seicento Italiano. Works by Marini, Selma y Salaverde, Merula, Pandolfi-Mealli, Fontana, Frescobaldi & Uccellini
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: An effective collection of 17th-century Italian music for violin and harpMusicians: Arparla: Davide Monti (violin) Maria Christina Cleary (harp)Composer: Marini, Selma y Salaverde, Merula, Pandolfi-Mealli, Fontana, Frescobaldi & UccelliniDavide Monti is fleet of left and right hands in this attractive anthology of ...
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ArticleGarcía-Fons: Méditerranées
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A lengthy tour of the Mediterranean would have benefited from being more selectiveMusicians: Renaud García-Fons (double bass/tanbur/udu/bendir/cajon/daf/palmas) et alComposer: García-FonsThis clockwise journey around the Mediterranean rim is not, Renaud García-Fons emphasises, mere musical tourism, but a meaningful journey that places melody at its heart. ...
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Vancouver Symphony players to teach at music school
A new community music school in Vancouver opens for business on 2 August, with classes starting in September. The VSO School of Music is a project of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, 32 of whose players are on the new school's 49-strong faculty. Individual and group classes will be available, and ...
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Cellist Andreas Fleck receives AZ Medien Culture Prize
Cellist Andreas Fleck has been awarded the CHF25,000 (£18,000) Culture Prize from Swiss media group AZ Medien. The 42-year-old Augsburg-born musician has lived in Zurich since 2001 and is artistic director of the Boswiler Sommer festival.
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Violinist Joshua Bell joins Academy of St Martin in the Fields
The American violinist Joshua Bell has been appointed music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which began life in 1958. He is the only musician to have held the title apart from its founder, Neville Marriner, who stepped down five years ago and becomes the group’s ...
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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment players give violin lesson to waiter
A touring British orchestral musician has given a waiter an impromptu violin lesson in a restaurant in Modena. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment violist Annette Isserlis was dining with three fellow musicians when the waiter brought out his student violin. She then gave him his first ever violin lesson, ...
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Violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley takes first prize at Vibrarte Competition
US violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley won first prize at the Vibrarte Competition for violinists in Paris. The 26-year-old, who was born in North Carolina, and whose teachers have included Mauricio Fuks and Christoph Poppen, received €16,000. Second prize went to Hyuk Joo Kwun, 25, from South Korea. Mari Poll, 23, from ...
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra concertmaster off to Dallas
Emmanuelle Boisvert, concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra since 1988, is to join the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. She will take up her new position of associate concertmaster this September. Boisvert is the latest of several Detroit Symphony musicians to announce their departure this year. A six-month strike by the orchestra's ...
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Jon Lord writes for Henley Festival Orchestra
Jon Lord, co-founder of the rock group Deep Purple, is to compose a new work for Henley Festival Orchestra. The piece, which will have its premiere in 2012, will be Lord's first classical composition for young musicians. The Henley Festival Orchestra is a youth ensemble that was founded in ...
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Double bassist Timothy Cobb to join New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Double bassist Timothy Cobb will join the New York Philharmonic as acting principal bass for the 2011–12 season. Cobb is on leave from the Metropolitan Opera, where he is principal bass. The New York Philharmonic has four bass vacancies to fill, including the principal and associate principal positions.
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Notos and Excelsa quartets win at Charles Hennen competition
The Notos Quartet and the Excelsa Quartet have won the top prizes at the Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition in Heerlen, the Netherlands. The Notos Quartet, a German piano quartet which earlier this month won the 2011 Parkhouse Award in the UK, received first prize in the piano-and-string-ensemble division. ...
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Russian cellist Mikhail Nemtsov wins Fournier Award
Mikhail Nemtsov has won the Pierre Fournier Award after a final round of auditions at London's Wigmore Hall. The Russian cellist, 23, who studies with Hannah Roberts at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, received a prize that includes a recital at the Wigmore Hall, and several orchestral ...
