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ArticleMariinsky Theatre Orchestra performs at Palmyra ruins in Syria
Valery Gergiev conducted the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in a concert at the ruins of Palmyra, Syria yesterday. The historic site was recaptured from the so-called Islamic State (IS) by Syrian forces backed by Russian air strikes in March.The orchestra performed works by Bach, Prokofiev and Shchedrin at Palmyra's ...
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ArticleItzhak Perlman, Mischa Maisky and Evgeny Kissin perform Tchaikovsky
Violinist Itzhak Perlman, cellist Mischa Maisky and pianist Evgeny Kissin perform an excerpt from Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A Minor, op. 50 on 3 December 2015 at Carnegie Hall, New York. Read: Never practise for more than five hours per day, says violinist Itzhak Perlman Watch: 2Cellos, ...
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ArticlePhotographing a 299-year-old Stradivarius violin
After each shot I turn the violin 30 degrees and take another picture. I have to turn the violin to shoot it in 12 different angles. It's all about precision'What does it take to photograph the qualities of a Stradivari violin? Photographer Søren Jonesen takes us through the ...
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ArticleDavid Garrett tries out Stradivari and Guarneri 'del Gesù' violins
My favourite violin maker is 'del Gesù', but in this acoustic the Strad is the best. It's tough for me to admit that, but this instrument has all of the right qualities' David Garrett tries out several violins by Stradivari and Guarneri 'del Gesù' at Cremona's Museo ...
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ArticleViolinist Rachel Barton Pine performs her own Happy Birthday variations
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs her own virtuoso arrangement of Happy Birthday - 'Introduction, Theme and Variations on the Birthday Song' - for the Lake Forest Symphony's 75th anniversary gala in November 2007. Read: American Airlines pilot denies Rachel Barton Pine access to cabin with her violin ...
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ArticleRavi Shankar, Alla Rakha and Yehudi Menuhin Trio
Ravi Shankar: 'Our teaching is based on oral tradition; our music is not written down.'Yehudi Menuhin: 'That's why it's alive!'Violinist Yehudi Menuhin discusses and plays Indian music with friend and colleague Ravi Shankar.The Strad's May 2016 Menuhin Centenary issue is out now – download through The Strad App ...
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ArticleViolinist Yehudi Menuhin on the importance of practice
Anything that one wants to do really, one must do every day. It should be easy to the artist and natural as flying is to a bird' Violinist Yehudi Menuhin talks about the importance of practice. The interview is taken from 'The Menuhin Century' boxed set of ...
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ArticleJames Ehnes performs on the Guarneri 'del Gesù' 'Lord Wilton' violin
James Ehnes performs Tchaikovsky's Melody, op.42 no.3 on the Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù' 'Lord Wilton' violin, 1742. The instrument was one of several great Cremonese violins associated with Yehudi Menuhin, who acquired it in 1978 from Jacques Francais in New York. On his death in 1999 it ...
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ArticleNiccolò Paganini
Niccolò Paganini was born in Genoa, Italy, Oct 27, 1782 and is considered by many to be one of the greatest violinists of all time. The young musician first received lessons from his father and later from the most reputable teachers in Genoa. In 1801 Paganini travelled ...
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ArticleFrançois Rabbath
François Rabbath was born in Aleppo, Syria into a musical family. Having began the double bass at the age of 13, Rabbath studied at the Paris Conservatoire and began his career accompanying Jacque Brel, Charles Aznavour, Michel Legrand among others. In 1963 he made his first solo ...
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ArticleThe Strad Masterclass: Danjulo Ishizaka on the Grieg Cello Sonata
In the video above cellist Mischa Maisky and pianist Martha Argerich perform the first movement - Allegro agitato - of Grieg's Cello Sonata, op.36. Cellist Danjulo Ishizaka continues The Strad’s new marked-up sheet music series in association with Henle Verlag with the work's first movement – giving bowings, fingerings and ...
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Article9-year-old Leia Zhu performs Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
9-year-old Leia Zhu performs the second and third movements of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Surgut Philharmonic conducted by Denis Kirpanev in April 2016.A student of Itzhak Rashkovsky, the young violinist won the International Russian Rotary Music Competition in Moscow in September 2015 – watch her performing Mendelssohn ...
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ArticleYehudi Menuhin performs Bach at the age of 69
Yehudi Menuhin performs the Prelude from Bach's Solo Violin Partita no.3 in 1985 at the age of 69
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ArticleViolinist Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Bach's Chaconne
Frank Peter Zimmermann talks in The Strad's April 2016 issue about revisiting the Mozart Violin Concertos on disc, 20 years after his breakthrough recording - download on desktop computer or buy in print Read The Strad’s 7 ways to play perfect chords and see how other great violinists tackled the ...
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ArticleParody video: how to be a classical musician
Step 4: Practise....for the rest of your life''Step 8: Avoid acquiring a pretentious European accent'CBC Music presents a tongue-in-cheek video guide on how to be a classical musician, produced by IFHT.Watch: Opera Five spoofs Air Canada’s musical instrument policy
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ArticleViolinist Anne Akiko Meyers performs with broken foot
Anne Akiko Meyers suffered a fall on Friday while walking with her children, just a few hours before she was due to give her second of three performances of Mason Bates’s Violin Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington.The violinist, who believed at ...
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ArticleCellist Ralph Kirshbaum gives Haydn masterclass
You should play with a feeling of improvisation, as this is a cadenza. At the moment it feels too self-conscious'Ralph Kirshbaum gives a masterclass on Haydn's Cello Concerto in D for Play With A Pro Music Academy. The full 42-minute video can be downloaded here.Watch: Cellist Ralph Kirshbaum ...
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Article12-year-old Yesong Sophie Lee gives 2016 Menuhin Competition winning performance
12-year-old Yesong Sophie Lee gives her winning performance in the 2016 Menuhin Competition Junior Finals at London's Royal Academy of Music.The young violinist leads the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra as soloist in Summer from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and also performs the world premiere of the new commission for ...
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Article20-year-old Yu-Ting Chen performs at Menuhin Competition 2016
20-year-old violinist Yu-Ting Chen performs in the 2016 Menuhin Competition Senior Semi-Finals.Her programme features the first movement of Bartók’s Solo Sonata, the Adagio con espressione from Beethoven’s String Trio op.9 no.3, Enescu’s Impromptu Concertant and Szymanowski's Nocturne and Tarantella.Watch: 11-year-old Samuel Tan performs at Menuhin Competition 2016Read: Menuhin ...
