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Brahms: 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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Ruisi 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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An 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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Ravel: 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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Christophe 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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Mendelssohn: 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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Violinist David Garrett performs Bazzini's Dance of the Goblins New Year's Eve 2016
German violinist David Garrett performs Bazzini's Dance of the Goblins as part of the New Year's Eve show on Russian television station Kultura, 31 December 2016. Watch: David Garrett sets Guinness World Record for Fastest Violin Player Watch: Violinist Maxim Vengerov performs Bazzini’s Dance of the Goblins
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Martinu¯: Sonatine. Milhaud: Sonata. Moszkowski: Suite in G minor
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: Likeable trios for violins and piano make for a family affairMusicians: Koch TrioComposer: Martinu¯, Milhaud, MoszkowskiCatalogue number: ETCETERA KTC 1543 Three chamber works for the unusual combination of two violins and piano come courtesy of a family trio: father and daughter Philippe ...
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Cellist Gary Hoffman gives Tchaikovsky masterclass 2016
In each case your shift is taking place on the new bow rather than the old bow, which means you're not anticipating the new position.' Gary Hoffman gives a cello masterclass at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel on Tchaikovsky's Pezzo capriccioso, op.62 on 9 May 2016. The ...
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15-year-old violist Tabea Zimmermann performs at Geneva Music Competition in 1982
15-year-old Tabea Zimmermann performs Stamitz's Viola Concerto in D major, op.1 with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at the final of the 1982 Geneva International Music Competition - which she won. Zimmermann will join violinist Antje Weithaas and cellist Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt as new professors at Germany’s ...
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Janine Jansen performs Brahms Violin Concerto at 2016 Nobel Prize Concert
Janine Jansen performed Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gianandrea Noseda at the 2016 Nobel Prize Concert in Stockholm Concert Hall on 8 December 2016. The star violinist replaced tenor Jonas Kaufmann who cancelled his appearance at the event due to a ...
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MacMillan: Violin Concerto; Symphony no. 4
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: Magnificent playing from Repin in James MacMillan's 2010 concertoMusicians: Vadim Repin (violin) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Donald RunniclesComposer: MacMillanCatalogue number: ONYX 4157 With its mysterious German chanting, Shostakovich-like sarcasm and nods to seemingly everyone from Bernstein to Berio, James MacMillan’s 2010 Violin Concerto ...
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Locatelli: L’arte del violino op.3: Violin Concertos no.1 in D major, no.2 in C minor, no.4 in E major
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: Persuasive readings of three of Locatelli's violin concertosMusicians: Lisa Jacobs (violin) The String SoloistsComposer: LocatelliCatalogue number: COBRA 0054 Dutch violinist Lisa Jacobs performs three of Locatelli’s twelve 1733 concertos L’arte del violino op.3 with bold characterisation, and meets their formidable technical challenges ...
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Kreisler: String Quartet in A minor. Schulhoff: Five Pieces for string quartet. Zemlinsky: String Quartet in E minor
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: String quartets from the dying days of the Habsburg EmpireMusicians: Artis Quartet ViennaComposer: Kreisler, Schulhoff, ZemlinskyCatalogue number: NIMBUS NI 5942 This resourceful programme is a pendant to the Artis Quartet’s exploration of the neglected corners of Viennese quartet writing and to ...
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Quintet dream team: Joshua Bell, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky, Henning Kraggerud, Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello), Joshua Bell (violin), Henning Kraggerud (violin) and Yuri Bashmet (viola) come together in a dream lineup to perform Shostakovich's Piano Quintet, op.57 at the 2008 Verbier Festival. Read: ‘I often have to battle negative thoughts on stage,’ says violinist Joshua Bell ...
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9-year-old Dylan Beato's incredible perfect pitch
9-year-old Dylan Beato demonstrates his truly incredible perfect pitch, managing to correctly sing and write down almost instantly discordant clusters of notes played on the piano by his father Rick Beato.The young musician, who has played the piano for four years, has been tutored by his father, who ...
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Violinist Sarah Chang performing in the 1980s - her youngest YouTube clip to have surfaced?
Violinist Sarah Chang gives a staggeringly accomplished performance of Saint-Saëns' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso during the 1980s in this clip, which recently surfaced on YouTube. Although the video's owner is unsure of the exact date, it seems certain that the young prodigy was under the age of ...
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Cellist Jan Vogler performs Bloch's Schelomo
Cellist Jan Vogler performs Bloch's Schelomo with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony conducted by Eliahu Inbal at the Alte Oper Frankfurt on 25 November 2016.Read: Cellist Jan Vogler on life before the fall of the Berlin WallWatch: Cellist Gautier Capuçon performs Paganini’s Variations on a Theme of Rossini
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Fin de Siècle. Büsser: Appassionato. Chausson: Pièce. Debussy: Beau soir. Durosoir: Vitrail. Enescu: Concertstück. Hahn: Soliloque et forlane. Honnoré: Morceau de concert. Hüe: Thème varié. Ravel: Kad
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: Beautifully written Conservatoire test pieces, eloquently playedMusicians: Lawrence Power (viola) Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)Composer: Büsser, Chausson, Debussy, Durosoir, Enescu, Hahn, Honnoré, Hüe, Ravel, VierneCatalogue number: HYPERION CDA 68165 The best-known item in this most welcome recital is Enescu’s Concertstück, a piece that, ...