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ArticleBeethoven: Complete Sonatas and Variations for cello and piano
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: March 2017Description: Kirshbaum picks Romantic Beethoven for his 70th-birthday celebrationMusicians: Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), Shai Wosner (piano)Composer: BeethovenCatalogue number: ONYX 4178 (2 CDs) These discs were recorded in London’s Wigmore Hall concurrently with two concerts given there early last year, to mark ...
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ArticleListen to Ruggiero Ricci's Lorenzo Storioni violin, 1779
David Ballesteros plays an excerpt from Massenet’s Méditation on a 1779 violin by Lorenzo Storioni, formerly owned by Ruggiero Ricci. The instrument is due to be auctioned by Brompton's Fine and Rare Instruments at The Royal Institution in London on 27 March 2017. Accompanying the instrument are ...
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ArticleTchaikovsky: String Quartets: no.1 in D major op.11, no.3 in E flat minor op.30
The Strad Issue: March 2017Description: The Heath turns from Tippett to Tchaikovsky with mixed resultsMusicians: Heath QuartetComposer: TchaikovskyCatalogue number: HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907665 The Heath Quartet jumps in at the deep end in its debut CD for Harmonia Mundi, by selecting the Tchaikovsky quartets – notoriously difficult ...
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ArticleRostropovich Encores - music by Chopin, Debussy, Popper, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Rostropovich, Scriabin, Sinding and Stravinsky
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: March 2017Description: Gerhardt emulates the great Slava but finds his own personal intimacyMusicians: Alban Gerhardt (cello) Markus Becker (piano)Composer: Chopin, Debussy, Popper, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Rostropovich, Scriabin, Sinding and StravinskyCatalogue number: HYPERION CDA 68136 This is a fascinating selection that collects ...
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ArticleC. Simpson: The Four Seasons
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: March 2017Description: A seasons cycle that pre-dates Vivaldi's by six decadesMusicians: Sirius Viols; Lee Santana (cittern/theorbo), Johannes Gontarski (bandora/guitar/archlute/cittern) Andreas Küppers (organ)Composer: C. SimpsonCatalogue number: DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 88875 19098-2 More than 60 years before Vivaldi composed his own Four Seasons, ...
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ArticleThe Janoska Ensemble performs Rumba for Amadeus - plus tips for playing with 'Janoska Style'
In the video above the Janoska Ensemble perform their own improvisation based upon Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 20 - 'Rumba for Amadeus'.The group of three brothers - Ondrej, Frantisek and Roman Janoska - together with their brother-in-law Julius Darvas provide tips below for performing violinist Roman's most popular ...
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ArticleDansa - Bach: Violin Partita no.2 in D minor BWV1004, Cruger: Befiehl du deine Wege, Henryson: Violin Sonata, Regnart: Wo soll lich fliehen hin, S.-D. Sandström: Dansa
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: March 2017Description: Zilliacus explores Bach and contemporary responses to his musicMusicians: Cecilia Zilliacus (violin), Lena Willemark (voice/violin)Composer: Bach, Cruger, Henryson, S.-D. SandströmCatalogue number: BIS 2159 (SACD) After her superlative recording of Nielsen’s Violin Concerto last year (reviewed in March 2016) Cecilia ...
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ArticleStolen ‘Ames’ Stradivarius violin returns to the stage
There was evidence that the thief tried to glue the cracks himself with superglue' - Bruno Price, Rare Violins of New York.The 'Ames' Stradivarius violin is to return to the stage after an extensive year-long restoration.The instrument was stolen from from the office of violinist Roman Totenberg ...
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ArticleThe Hupfeld Phonoliszt Violina - a self-playing violin invented in 1907
Invented in 1907, the Hupfeld Company’s ‘violin player’ was one of the marvels revealed at the World’s Fair of 1910 in Brussels.The instrument is a combination of a player piano and three violins (each with only one active string), which are mounted vertically and played with a rotating ...
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ArticleJoshua Bell performs Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto no. 3
Violinist Joshua Bell performs Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto no. 3 with the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra conducted by Joshua Weilerstein. The performance was recorded at the Verbier Festival in the Salle des Combins, Switzerland on 6 August 2016. The entire performance is available to watch via medici.tv. Read: ...
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ArticleViolinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs her own solo arrangement of Ozzy Osbourne's 'Crazy Train', the first single from the Black Sabbath frontman's debut solo album, released in 1980. Read: 10 pieces of advice for performers by violinist Rachel Barton Pine Watch: violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs her ...
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ArticleAlisa Weilerstein rehearses Dvorák's Cello Concerto
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein rehearses the first movement of Dvorák's Cello Concerto with Orchestre de Paris conducted by Emmanuel Krivine for a performance which took place on 13 May 2015 at the Paris Philharmonie. Watch: Cellist Alisa Weilerstein on memorising music Watch: Alisa Weilerstein performs Kodály’s Solo Cello ...
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ArticleViolinist Vadim Repin performs Sofia Gubaidulina's Offertorium
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 ...
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ArticleHilary Hahn performs Gigue from Bach Solo Violin Partita no.3
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 ...
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ArticleLisa Batiashvili rehearses Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto
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 ...
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ArticleRenaud Capuçon rehearses Beethoven's Violin Concerto 2017
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 ...
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ArticleViolinist Nicola Benedetti on the physicality of playing
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 ...
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ArticleOwen Lee plays 420-year-old Gasparo Da Salò double bass
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, ...
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ArticleIn Search of Original Sound - Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor op.129; Symphony no.2 in C major op.61
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, ...
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ArticleSchulhoff: Violin Sonatas nos.1 & 2; Suite; Solo Violin Sonata
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 ...
