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ArticleHow 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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ArticleBach 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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ArticleJ.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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ArticleArcanum - 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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ArticleAdams: 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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ArticleGeoffrey 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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ArticleSirena 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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ArticleLuthier 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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ArticleThe 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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ArticleThe 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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ArticleStrad 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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ArticleViolinist 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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ArticleFranck: 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 ...
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ArticleBrahms: Cello Sonata no.2 in F major; Violin Sonata no.2 in A major op.100 (arr.Wispelwey), Schubert: Violin Sonata in A major D574 (arr.Wispelwey)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Wispelwey adopts and adapts Brahms and Schubert for the celloMusicians: Pieter Wispelwey (cello) Paolo Giacometti (piano)Composer: Brahms, SchubertCatalogue number: EVIL PENGUIN EPRC 0022 Assigning works written for one instrument to another is certainly one way of eschewing a museum ...
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ArticleRuisi Quartet perform Vuillaume’s ‘Evangelists’ Quartet of instruments
The Ruisi Quartet performs Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume’s celebrated ‘Evangelists’ Quartet of instruments.Constructed from matching wood in 1863 and based on Stradivari models, the instruments have remained together as a group, held in private European collections since about 1970, and sold through Ingles and Hayday to an Asian collector in ...
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ArticleAn orchestra of 90 double basses
90 double bass players of the Korea Double Bass Association perform 'The Death of Ase', 'Anitra's Dance' and 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' from Grieg's Peer Gynt at the Seoul Arts Center, South Korea in October 2011.Watch: 1,000 cellists perform in JapanRead: Too few conductors understand ...
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ArticleRavel: Piano Trio in A minor. Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio no.2 in E minor op.92
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: French piano trios played with confidence and eleganceMusicians: Fidelio TrioComposer: Ravel, Saint-SaënsCatalogue number: RESONUS RES 10173 It’s sometimes tempting to describe Saint-Saëns’s chamber music as offering a mixture of Beethovenian weight and Mendelssohnian lightness, although Nigel Simeone in his excellent note for ...
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ArticleChristophe Coin performs Vivaldi on 5-string violoncello piccolo
Christophe Coin, who is interviewed in The Strad's February 2017 issue, performs Vivaldi's Cello Concerto RV 414 in G on a five-string violoncello piccolo with Il Giardino Armonico.Read: Ask the Experts - obtaining a five-string celloRead: Violoncello da spalla – story of a rediscovery
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ArticleMendelssohn: String Quartets: no.5 in E flat major op.44 no.3, no.6 in F minor op.80; Four Pieces op.81: nos.3 & 4
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: The Escher Quartet completes its Mendelssohn survey in styleMusicians: Escher QuartetComposer: MendelssohnCatalogue number: BIS 2160 (SACD) With the third and final instalment of its Mendelssohn quartets survey, the New York-based Escher Quartet ends on a high, entirely upholding the standards of earlier ...
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