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ArticleTchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Susanna Yoko Henkel (violin) Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra/Jonathan DarlingtonComposer: Tchaikovsky, Vaughan WilliamsListening once again to the Tchaikovsky Concerto’s impassioned flow of spontaneous invention, it seems more bizarre than ever that it is was this of all pieces that the pro-Brahms Viennese critic Eduard ...
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ArticleTouchable Dreams
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Steve Bingham (violin/five-string electric violin/octave electric violin/treble recorder/thumb piano/rainsticks) Jeremy Harmer (voice) Composer: VariousThis is more an event than a CD. Steve Bingham multi-tracks his instruments in an eclectic range of music while Jeremy Harmer reads poetry. One can imagine it performed ...
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ArticleJános Négyesy and Paivikki Nykter perform Violins and Computers
János Négyesy and Paivikki Nykter, both of the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), present Violins and Computers, in which five premiere performances are combined with multimedia and sound imagery. Recorded at UCSD on 22 October 2004.Series: New Music from UCSD [10/2004] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: ...
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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group to lose local council funding
One of Britain's leading new music ensembles, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG), is one of the big-name casualties of local authority arts cuts that are hitting some parts of the country. From 2012 Birmingham City Council is withdrawing all the funding it provides to the ensemble, amounting to nearly £72,000 ...
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Viola pedagogue Karen Tuttle dies at 90
American violist and teacher Karen Tuttle has died at the age of 90. She famously developed the 'coordination' technique, which balances both the physical and the emotional approach to the instrument. Born in 1920, she was a successful young violinist before switching to viola in order to study with ...
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BBC open to orchestra funding talks
The BBC has indicated it would join talks about the future funding of British orchestras, reports the Guardian. The corporation, which funds five orchestras across the UK, is facing budget cuts of its own. But director general Mark Thompson told MPs on the House of Commons culture, media and sports ...
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Coull Quartet plans work for 2012 Cultural Olympiad
Twenty 12-minute works have been commissioned for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad as part of the PRS for Music Foundation's New Music 20x12 project. Each commission will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and will tour the UK as part of the celebrations of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. ...
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Honolulu Symphony Orchestra set for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
A US judge has given the go-ahead for the Honolulu Symphony's bankruptcy case to be moved from Chapter 11 reorganisation to Chapter 7 liquidation, reports the Honolulu Star Advertiser. The decision effectively silences the 110-year-old orchestra, the country's oldest symphonic ensemble west of the Rocky Mountains. The orchestra has been ...
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BBC Radio 3 to broadcast all of Mozart's works in first 12 days of 2011
Following on from previous intensive celebrations of Beethoven and Bach, BBC Radio 3 is to devote its entire schedule to Mozart for the first twelve days of January. Alongside special Mozart editions of regular programmes such as Private Passions and In Tune, live music highlights include a performance by the ...
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Min-Jin Kym's 1696 Stradivarius violin is taken from a sandwich bar
A £15,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the recovery of a Stradivarius violin stolen in London. The 1696 instrument, valued at around £1.2m, was stolen along with two bows from a branch of Pret a Manger outside Euston Station on 29 November. The victim of the theft ...
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Bassist organises flashmob-style performances to protest against UK cuts to music education
Pop-up orchestras are expected to give simultaneous renditions of Lalo Schifrin's Mission Impossible theme in cities across the UK today (Friday 10 December). The orchestras are due to take to the streets and shopping centres of London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff and Liverpool at 6pm for impromptu performances in protest ...
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Romanian-born American violinist Sergiu Luca dies
Sergiu Luca, the Romanian-born American violinist, has died of cancer at the age of 67. Since 1983, he had been professor of violin at Rice University in Houston, the city in which he was also director of the Da Camera concert series, and the founder, in 1995, of period instrument ...
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Four-year-old violinist to perform in Arizona
A four-year-old violinist who has become something of a YouTube sensation is taking to the stage with a local symphony orchestra this weekend, reports the Arizona Republic. A video of Jonathan Okseniuk conducting along to a recording of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony when he was just three years old has been ...
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Violinist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky takes first prize at Helsinki Sibelius competition
Nikita Boriso-Glebsky has won first prize at the Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki. The 25-year-old, who studies with Augustin Dumay at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels, received €20,000, plus €2,000 for the best interpretation of the Sibelius concerto. Second prize went to Finnish violinist Petteri Iivonen, 23. Sixteen-year-old ...
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Violinist Julia Fischer up for a Grammy
Julia Fischer is one of the bigger string luminaries to feature in the nominations for the 53rd Grammy Awards, which will be presented in Los Angeles on 13 February. The violinist is nominated in the Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) category for her Decca recording of Paganini’s 24 Caprices. ...
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ArticleRussian music for cello and piano. Miaskovsky: Cello Sonata no 2 in A minor op.81. Scriabin: Etude op.8 no.11 (arr Piatigorsky). Prokofiev: Adagio op.97b. Schnittke: Musica nostalgica. Rachmaninoff: C
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Wendy Warner (cello) Irina Nuzova (piano)Composer: Miaskovsky, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Schnittke, RachmaninoffWendy Warner and Irina Nuzova confirm themselves as high-ranking artists with this excellently recorded and produced CD of Russian music. Their attractive programme is particularly notable for featuring the lesser-known ...
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ArticleStill: Danzas de Panama. Dvorák: String Quartet in F major op.96 ‘American’. Barber: String Quartet in B minor op.11. Gershwin: Lullaby
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Serafin QuartetComposer: Still, Dvorák, Barber, Gershwin This disc of (almost entirely) American music opens with an attractive set of dances by William Grant Still, straightforward, lively pieces, played in good café-music style by the Serafin Quartet, lilting and swinging, with ...
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ArticleKreutzer Time. Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A minor op.47 ‘Kreutzer’. Kreutzer: Violin Sonata. Ries: Violin Sonata in C sharp minor op.71
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Davide Amodio (violin) Edoardo Torbianelli (piano)Composer: Beetrhoven, Kreutzer, RiesDavide Amodio plays on a gut-strung 1793 F. Pique violin for this reading of Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata, partnered by Edoardo Torbianelli on an 1823 Iakesh fortepiano. In the accompanying notes, Amodio avows that they ...
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ArticleBrahms: Violin Concerto in D major op.77. Bruch: Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor op.26
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Sarah Chang (violin) Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra/Kurt MasurComposer: Brahms, Bruch Although both of these performances reflect credit on all concerned, it is my impression that the Bruch is rather special, while the Brahms is just another excellent Brahms. ...
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ArticleSzymanowski: Violin Concerto no.1 op.35, Symphony no.3 ‘The Song of the Night’
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Steve Davislim (tenor) Vienna Singverein, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Pierre BoulezComposer: Szymanowski With a conductor as brilliantly analytical as Pierre Boulez in charge of Szymanowski’s First Violin Concerto it would be easy to get swept up in the orchestral ...
