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Suzuki association could benefit from $50,000 Pepsi grant funding
The Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA) could be in line for a $50,000 grant from Pepsi. The organisation hopes to use the money to fund a thousand $50 partial scholarships for teachers, parents and others taking its Every Child Can course - an introduction to Suzuki philosophy and education ...
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Ayano Ninomiya replaces Frank Huang as Ying Quartet first violinist
Ayano Ninomiya is the new first violinist of the Ying Quartet, which is based at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. She replaces Frank Huang, who left the group after just one year to become concertmaster of the Houston Symphony. Japanese-born Ninomiya, who has lived in ...
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British Violin Making Association conference cancelled
The British Violin Making Association (BVMA) has cancelled a conference it had planned to run this September at Leicester University. The association had been hoping to revive the annual conference after not holding it last year, but organisers received too few bookings to make this autumn's event viable. BVMA secretary ...
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Berklee professor Valerie Taylor reunited with lost violin
A Berklee College of Music professor has thanked staff at the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) after they found and kept safe the violin she left on a bus, reports the Boston Globe. Valerie Taylor was travelling home from a music festival when she forgot to pick up the instrument, ...
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Concert promoter claims Ryanair charged £1,340 to seat three violins
A small arts trust in eastern England is considering legal action against Ryanair. Norfolk Concerts had to pay £1,340 so that three violinists it had engaged could fly from Frankfurt-Hahn airport to Stansted with their instruments in the cabin. Douglas Gowan, Norfolk Concerts' executive director, claims Ryanair broke a ...
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Alexandra Conunova and Vladyslava Luchenko share top prize at Tibor Varga competition
Alexandra Conunova and Vladyslava Luchenko were the highest placed prizewinners at the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in Martigny, Switzerland. The jury at the 43rd edition of the contest chose not to award a first prize. Conunova, 22, from Moldova, and Luchenko, also 22, from Ukraine, shared second prize, each ...
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Elgar String Quartet orchestration to receive premiere in Presteigne
A new orchestration of Elgar's String Quartet in E minor, op.83, will have its world premiere at the Presteigne Festival in mid-Wales later this month. The festival commissioned British composer David Matthews to arrange the quartet for string orchestra. The three-movement quartet was first performed at the Wigmore Hall in ...
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Venezuelan-Italian Giovanni Guzzo to join Manchester Camerata as leader
UK chamber orchestra the Manchester Camerata has appointed Giovanni Guzzo as its new leader. The 24-year-old Venezuelan-Italian violinist will start in the role at the beginning of the 2010-11 season. Guzzo, who plays on a 1719 Santo Serafin, has worked closely with violinist and conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy, who is due ...
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ArticleBrahms: Cello Sonatas no.1 in E minor op.38 & no.2 in F major op.99, Violin Sonata no.1 in G major (arr. Klengel)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Torleif Thedéen (cello) Roland Pöntinen (piano)Composer: Brahms Ten years on from recording their Schumann and Chopin disc, Swedish partnership Torleif Thedéen and Roland Pöntinen at last give us some Brahms. This is repertoire ideally suited to the pair. ...
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ArticleBritten: Cello Symphony, Cello Suite no.1
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Pieter Wispelwey (cello) Flanders Symphony Orchestra/Seikyo KimComposer: BrittenBritten’s Cello Symphony makes a timely addition to the suites and Solo Sonata already committed to disc by Wispelwey. Although in the booklet he writes of it as a concerto, his interpretation suggests the subtle ...
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ArticleCage: Etudes boreales for a percussionist using a piano, Harmonies XIII, XXII, XXIV, XXVII, 10'40.3' for a string player from 26’1.1499’’, Etudes boreales for cello solo and piano solo
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Friedrich Gauwerky (cello)Composer: Cage The German cellist and new music specialist Friedrich Gauwerky succeeds here in bringing coherence and structure to two of the most challenging works of 20th-century cello literature, John Cage’s Etudes boreales (1978) and 26’1.1499” (1953–5) (of which ...
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ArticleMetamorphosis. Bartók: String Quartet no.4. Ligeti: String Quartet no.1 ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’. Kurtág: 12 Microludes op.13
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Casals Quartet Composer: Bartók, Ligeti, KurtágA thought-provoking programme presents Hungarian composers of two generations with much in common: an uncanny ear for string sonority, a tendency towards introversion and a capacity for civilised barbarity. Ligeti and Kurtág show Bartók’s ...
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ArticleVolupté. Koechlin: Viola Sonata op.53, Quatre petites pièces. Jongen: Concertino for viola and piano op.111, Introduction et danse op.102, Andante espressivo, Allegro appassionato op.79
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Roger Benedict (viola) Ben Jacks (horn) Timothy Young (piano)Composer: Koechlin, Jongen Voluptuous indeed are the sounds embedded in this recording of music from the fin de siècle (in spirit if not always in date of composition). The main work ...
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ArticleSaint-Saëns: Violin Concerto no.3 in B minor op.61, Introduction & Rondo capriccioso. Chausson: Poème op.25. Ysaÿe: Poème élégiaque in D minor op.12
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Tedi Papavrami (violin) Liège Philharmonic Orchestra/François-Xavier RothComposer: Saint-Saëns, Chausson, Ysaÿe Tedi Papavrami has two immediate advantages here: he possesses a sound of ravishing purity and he is an out-and-out sensualist who plays these glorious scores with affectionate warmth. Even bearing ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Violin Sonatas in E flat major op.12 no.3 & A major op.47 ‘Kreutzer’
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Viktoria Mullova (violin) Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)Composer: Beethoven Despite my respect for Viktoria Mullova, which has led me to listen to this disc some half-dozen times, I am left with a feeling of frustration. Phrase after phrase from the violinist ...
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ArticleBeethoven: String Quartet in B flat major op.130, Grosse Fuge op.133
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Cypress QuartetComposer: Beethoven The Cypress Quartet’s second volume in its series of Beethoven’s late quartets features op.130 and includes both the Grosse Fuge and the composer’s alternative finale. These perceptive interpretations are rigorous and intuitively formed, strong without being overstated, ...
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ArticleDvorák: Cello Concerto in A major ‘Youth’, Waldesruhe, Rondo op.94, Polonaise
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Ramon Jaffé (cello) Rheinische Philharmonie State Orchestra/Daniel RaiskinComposer: Dvorák Given the quality of the famous B minor Concerto, who couldn’t but hope that Dvo?ák had written an earlier masterpiece for cello and orchestra? The 1865 A major Concerto, however, ...
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ArticleElgar: Cello Concerto, Sospiri, Salut d’Amour, La capricieuse. Dvorák: Waldesruhe, Rondo op.94. Respighi: Andante con variazioni. Vasks: The Book
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Sol Gabetta (cello) Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Mario VenzagoComposer: Elgar, Dvorák ,Respighi, VasksIn every regard this is an outstanding CD. The recording quality is impressively clear yet warm, the orchestral playing well-honed and incisive, and the repertoire extremely varied. Sol Gabetta shines at ...
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ArticleAcoustic Voyage
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Tim Kliphuis (violin) Nigel Clark (guitar) Roy Percy (double bass) David Newton (piano) Sandro Ciancio (percussion)Composer: VariousTim Kliphuis adds piano and percussion to his regular trio for this journey through combinations of Manouche jazz, Scottish folk and Brazilian music. Kliphuis ...
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ArticleBull: Nocturne, The Herdgirl’s Sunday, A Mountain Vision, Adagio religioso, Polacca guerriera, Adagio sostenuto, Grand March from Agiaco cubano, Cantabile doloroso e Rondo giocoso, La mélancholie, And
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Arve Tellefsen (violin) HŠvard Gimse (piano) Trondheim Symphony Orchestra/Eivind AadlandComposer: BullThat violin giant Ole Bornemann Bull undertook some composition is not unexpected. His music is largely forgotten today and, without being unduly unkind, this is understandable. These compositions are perfectly pleasant (as ...
