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Violinist Annelle Gregory gives winning performance at Sphinx Competition 2017
Annelle K. Gregory performs the first movement of Sibelius's Violin Concerto in the final of the 2017 Sphinx Competition - which she won, taking home the top prize of $50,000. The performance, which took place at Orchestra Hall, Detroit on 12 February 2017, features the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra ...
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Brahms: String Quartet no.3 in B flat major op.67; Three Songs, Schoenberg: String Quartet no.2 in F sharp minor op.10
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: The Kuss players continue to make ear-opening musical juxtapositionsMusicians: Mojca Erdmann (soprano), Kuss QuartetComposer: Brahms, SchoenbergCatalogue number: ONYX 4166 The Kuss Quartet’s first disc for Onyx paired Schubert and Berg. This new one offers a similar juxtaposition but with two composers in ...
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Nemanja Radulović rehearses Barber Violin Concerto with Kirill Karabits
Violinist Nemanja Radulović takes part in an informal rehearsal of Barber's Violin Concerto with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) chief conductor Kirill Karabits accompanying on piano. Radulović, who is currently serving as BSO artist in residence, is to perform the work with the orchestra tonight (15 February) at ...
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Mischa Maisky performs Saint-Saëns's The Swan
Cellist Mischa Maisky performs 'The Swan' from Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy.The performance was recorded at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland on 27 July 2015. The entire concert, including Maisky's performance of Shostakovich's Cello Concerto can be viewed ...
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Beethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: A close partnership brings romantic warmth to the Beethoven sonatasMusicians: Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Romain Descharmes (piano)Composer: BeethovenCatalogue number: APARTÉ AP 129 (3CDs) Recorded in concerts over two days, these performances bear few traces of haste in their preparation or execution. Pierre Fouchenneret ...
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Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
BBC Young Musician 2016 winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah in an arrangement by composer-pianist Tom Hodge at London's Abbey Road Studios in the video above.The 17-year-old cellist performed the work at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) televised ceremony at London's Royal Albert Hall yesterday evening ...
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Bartók: String Quartet no.3, Dvorák: String Quartet no.11 in C major op.61, Mozart: String Quartet no.20 in D major K499 ‘Hoffmeister'
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Salzburg recordings from 1965 in slightly compromised soundMusicians: Juilliard QuartetComposer: Bartók, Dvorák, MozartCatalogue number: ORFEO C927 161B Live Juilliard performances can be illuminating, but here the tape imparts a tremulous quality to the strings. In a purposeful Allegretto to Mozart’s ‘Hoffmeister’, tangy ...
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How to play the modulin - a DIY synthesizer played like a violin
Martin Molin from Swedish folktronica band Wintergatan demonstrates his modulin - a home-made modular synthesizer, played like a violin.He performs arrangements of Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra, and John Williams's Jurassic Park theme.Watch: Montreal Symphony Orchestra acquires a rare octobassWatch: Vivaldi performed on the world’s smallest playable violin
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Bach duet on 1734 Stradivarius and Guarneri del Gesù violins
Chicago Symphony Orchestra assistant concertmaster David Taylor and his former student Clarissa Bevilacqua perform on two violins made in 1734 - the Antonio Stradivari 'Lam, ex Scotland' and the Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù 'Prince Doria' - housed at the Museo del Violino in Cremona, Italy. The performance ...
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J.S. Bach: Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV1043; Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041; Gavotte en rondeau (Partita no.3 BWV1006); various arrangements (arr. Sedlar), J.C. Bach: Viola Concerto in
Nemanja Radulović and friends offer an individual take on Bach
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Arcanum - Auerbach: Arcanum, Shostakovich (arr. Auerbach)
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Lera Auerbach arranges and composes for the violist Kim KashkashianMusicians: Kim Kashkashian (viola), Lera Auerbach (piano)Composer: Lera Auerbach, ShostakovichCatalogue number: ECM NEW SERIES 481 2322 Lera Auerbach’s involvement with Shostakovich’s piano Preludes op.34 began at the turn of the present century, when ...
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Adams: Violin Concerto, Harris: Violin Concerto
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Waley-Cohen rediscovers a major American fiddle concertoMusicians: Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew LittonComposer: John Adams, Roy HarrisCatalogue number: SIGNUM SIGCD 468 With this release Tamsin Waley-Cohen adds to an already diverse discography and further shows the range of her artistry. She ...
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Geoffrey Rush plays the violin in trailer for new Einstein series 'Genius'
In this short clip, aired during the American Super Bowl, actor Geoffrey Rush 'performs' a violin arrangement of pop singer Lady Gaga's Bad Romance.The video is an advertisement for the new National Geographic television series 'Genius', exploring the life and work of Albert Einstein, played by Rush. ...
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Sirena Huang performs at Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition 2017
22-year-old US violinist Sirena Huang performs in the semi-final round of the inaugural Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition (EOIVC), which concluded at Florida’s Lynn Conservatory of Music on Sunday 5 February 2017.Her programme includes the first movement of Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto and the first movement of Tchaikovsky's ...
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Luthier Hans Benning remembers violinist Jascha Heifetz
One day he came into my shop, randomly picked up a bow and played about ten notes on it. 'It's mine,' he said. 'But Mr Heifetz,' I said, 'that's a cello bow!'' 'He was a deep thinking man. He would tell me, 'Hans, it's very lonely at ...
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The Strad Masterclass: Paul Silverthorne on Brahms Viola Sonata op.120 no.2
Whatever choices you make, remember Brahms's reply to a musician asking for advice: 'Play it how you like, but play it beautifully'' Paul Silverthorne speaks about performing Brahms’s Second Viola Sonata to The Strad, and performs the entire work in the video above. Silverthorne continues The Strad’s marked-up sheet music ...
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The Cellist of Sarajevo - Wilde: Suite 'Cry, Bosnia-Herzegovina'; String Quartet no.1; Piano Trio; A Prayer for Bosnia
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: A veteran composer's searing response to the plight of the war-torn BalkansMusicians: Red Note EnsembleComposer: WildeCatalogue number: DELPHIAN DCD 34179 (2 CDs) This is music to memorialise, to bear witness and to remind us of our complicity. The pianist ...
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Strad Style: not your average violin making documentary
A new documentary charting the struggle by amateur luthier Danny Houck to make a copy of the 1743 'Il Cannone' Guarneri del Gesù has won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary and the Audience Award at the 2017 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.Made by violinist and ...
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Violinist James Ehnes performs Flight of the Bumblebee
Violinist James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong perform Jascha Heifetz's arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee in December 2015 to promote of Ehnes's 40th birthday tour. Watch: David Garrett sets Guinness World Record for Fastest Violin Player with Flight of the Bumblebee Watch: Cellist performs Flight ...
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Franck: Violin Sonata in A minor, Kurtág: Tre Pezzi op.14e, Previn: Tango Song and Dance, Schumann: Violin Sonata no.1 in A minor op.105
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Two players absorbed in the moment in a mixed violin and piano recitalMusicians: Augustin Hadelich (violin) Joyce Yang (piano)Composer: Franck, Kurtág, Previn, SchumannCatalogue number: AVIE AV 2347 Augustin Hadelich’s shimmering, silvery tone, chamber-scale intimacy of expression and Kremer-like refusal ...