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  • repin
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    Violinist Vadim Repin performs Sofia Gubaidulina's Offertorium

    2017-03-06T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Vadim Repin performs Sofia Gubaidulina's Offertorium concerto for violin and orchestra (1980) with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra 'Evgeny Svetlanov' under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski. The performance took place at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow on 30 May 2016. Read: 6 pieces of advice ...

  • hahn
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    Hilary Hahn performs Gigue from Bach Solo Violin Partita no.3

    2017-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Hilary Hahn performs the Gigue from Bach's Solo Partita no. 3 as an encore. The violinist often finishes concerts with the work, as she did following a performance of Bruch’s First Violin Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in December 2016. Read: violinist Hilary Hahn on ...

  • batiashvili
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    Lisa Batiashvili rehearses Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto

    2017-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Lisa Batiashvili rehearses the fourth movement of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto with Orchestre de Paris conducted by Paavo Järvi for performances on the 20 and 21 January 2016. Read: 5 pieces of advice for playing Bach by violinist Lisa Batiashvili Watch: Lisa Batiashvili performs Sibelius Violin ...

  • Capuçon
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    Renaud Capuçon rehearses Beethoven's Violin Concerto 2017

    2017-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Renaud Capuçon rehearses Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Orchestre de Paris conducted by Daniel Harding for performances which took place on 25 and 26 January 2017 at the Paris Philharmonie. Watch: Renaud Capuçon plays the Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ ‘Panette’ violin, 1737 Watch: Capuçon brothers – violinist Renaud ...

  • benedetti
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    Violinist Nicola Benedetti on the physicality of playing

    2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

    Understanding how much natural weight there is in the body, and how much you can and should use to play an instrument as delicate as the violin is so important' Violinist Nicola Benedetti speaks about the physicality of playing ahead of the Nicola Benedetti Strings Festival in ...

  • Salò
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    Owen Lee plays 420-year-old Gasparo Da Salò double bass

    2017-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Cincinnati Symphony principal bass Owen Lee demonstrates one of the world's oldest double basses, crafted by Gasparo Da Salò in Brescia, Italy c. 1590.Filmed at the Cincinnati Bass Cellar on July 10, 2016, the video features the opening of Koussevitzky's Concerto, the Prelude from Bach's First cello Suite, ...

  • Schumann Vogler
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    In Search of Original Sound - Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor op.129; Symphony no.2 in C major op.61

    2017-02-25T00:00:00Z

    The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Vogler goes gut in a revealing reading of Schumann's Cello ConcertoMusicians: Jan Vogler (cello) Dresden Festival Orchestra/Ivor BoltonComposer: SchumannCatalogue number: SONY CLASSICAL 88985 37212-2 Last year the cellist Jan Vogler, the Dresden Festival’s general director for the past eight years, ...

  • Schulhoff Monteiro
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    Schulhoff: Violin Sonatas nos.1 & 2; Suite; Solo Violin Sonata

    2017-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Description: Monteiro's complete Schulhoff feels like a wasted opportunityMusicians: Bruno Monteiro (violin), JoÁo Paulo Santos (piano)Composer: SchulhoffCatalogue number: BRILLIANT CLASSICS 95324 First the complete Szymanowski, now Schulhoff: Bruno Monteiro is to be commended on his choice of repertoire. Unfortunately that is about all there is to say ...

  • bell
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    Violinist Joshua Bell launches Virtual Reality Experience

    2017-02-23T00:00:00Z

    'You know how it is seeing yourself in the mirror - well this is worse!' - Joshua Bell US violinist Joshua Bell teamed with Sony Interactive Entertainment to launch the Joshua Bell VR Experience this week. The artist recorded Brahms's Hungarian Dance no.1 with pianist Sam Haywood ...

  • Saariaho Meta4
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    Saariaho: Chamber Works for Strings vol.2

    2017-02-23T00:00:00Z

    The Strad Issue: February 2017 Description: Finnish musicians continue their survey of Saariaho's quartet worksMusicians: Meta4, Pia Freund (soprano)Composer: Kaija SaariahoCatalogue number: ONDINE ODE 1242-2 Meta4’s second instalment of quartet works by Kaija Saariaho sees the Finnish composer at her best and worst, and it’s a thin ...

  • LeonBosch
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    The Strad Masterclass: Leon Bosch on Dragonetti's 'Famous Solo' for double bass

    2017-02-22T00:00:00Z

    To say that repeated material always has to be played differently to make it interesting is a flawed interpretation of how we work as human beings' - double bassist Leon Bosch speaks about performing 'The Famous Solo' by Dragonetti to The Strad. The second movement of the piece is performed ...

  • Lozakovich
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    15-year-old violinist Daniel Lozakovich performs Kreisler's Recitativo and Scherzo

    2017-02-22T00:00:00Z

    In the video above 15-year-old Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich performs Kreisler's Recitativo and Scherzo as an encore following a performance with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra just last week.The young musician signed a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon in June 2016, making him the label's youngest artist, and ...

  • Mozart Faust
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    Mozart: Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra

    2017-02-21T00:00:00Z

    The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Period playing and new cadenzas in the five Mozart concertosMusicians: Isabelle Faust (violin), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni AntoniniComposer: MozartCatalogue number: HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 2230/31 (2 CDS) This is now one of several sets of the Mozart concertos I have reviewed for The ...

  • Mendelssohn Widmann
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    MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E minor op.64 SCHUMANN Violin Concerto in D minor WoO23

    2017-02-21T00:00:00Z

    The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: A soloist well attuned to the challenges of Schumann's Violin ConcertoMusicians: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Carolin Widmann (violin)Composer: Mendelssohn, SchumannCatalogue number: ECM NEW SERIES 481 2635 With a solo line of rapt simplicity, Carolin Widmann gets right to the heart of the slow ...

  • Dusapin Capucon
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    Dusapin: Aufgang, Mantovani: Jeux d’eau, Rihm: Gedicht des Malers

    2017-02-20T00:00:00Z

    The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Three premieres show that the 21st-century violin concerto is in rude healthMusicians: Renaud Capuçon (violin), Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Philippe Jordan, Myung-Whun ChungComposer: Dusapin, Mantovani, RihmCatalogue number: ERATO 2564 60268-7 There’s no denying ...

  • arai
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    Winning violinist Yurina Arai performs at Heifetz Competition 2017

    2017-02-20T00:00:00Z

    In the video above Yurina Arai performs at the 2017 Jascha Heifetz International Violin Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania - which she won.The 22-year-old Japanese violinist's programme includes: Zita BružaitÄ—'s Canzona for Solo Violin; Paganini's Solo Caprice op.1 no.22; the Andante and Allegro from Bach's Solo Sonata no.2; Manuel ...

  • Caetani Alauda
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    Caetani: String Quartets: in D major op.1 no.1, in F minor op.12

    2017-02-19T00:00:00Z

    The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Sensitive performances of this 'missing link' between Brahms and SchoenbergMusicians: Alauda QuartetComposer: CaetaniCatalogue number: BRILLIANT CLASSICS 95198 The effusively Romantic music of Roffredo Caetani (1871–1961) forms an unlikely but persuasive calling-card for a young, UK-based quartet, formed in 2011 at London’s Royal ...

  • Britten Viersen
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    Britten: Three Suites for Solo Cello

    2017-02-17T00:00:00Z

    The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Viersen offers thoughtful and integrated performances of the three suitesMusicians: Quirine Viersen (cello)Composer: Benjamin BrittenCatalogue number: GLOBE GLO 5259 In a candid booklet interview, the Dutch cellist Quirine Viersen speaks of her tentative, even wary approach to performing and recording Britten’s three ...

  • psycho
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    American Composers Orchestra performs Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho Suite

    2017-02-17T00:00:00Z

    The American Composers Orchestra - 'dedicated to the creation, performance, preservation and promulgation of music by American composers' - performs Bernard Herrmann's Psycho Suite conducted by George Manahan.The performance was recorded at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall in New York on October 28 2016.Watch: Pittsburgh Symphony strings perform Bernard ...

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