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ArticleAaron Rosand performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy
American violinist Aaron Rosand performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy op. 25 with the CBC Concert Orchestra in 1969. Rosand is writing a series of technical blogs for The Strad - you can read his advice on vibrato and producing a beautiful tone. Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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ArticleVerbier Festival Academy launches outreach programme
Reaching Out will help Academy graduates to work actively in their communities
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ArticleYehudi Menuhin performs Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin performs Pablo de Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs) op. 20, accompanied by pianist Adolph Baller. The Menuhin Competition will be returning to London in 2016 to mark its founder's 100th anniversary.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. ...
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ArticleMinnesota Orchestra ends 15-month musician lockout with a new three-year contract
Orchestral musicians will return to work on 1 February 2014 at a reduced rate of pay
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ArticleMenuhin Competition returns to London in honour of the violinist
The 2016 contest will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the great prodigy
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ArticleMinnesota Orchestra perform Mahler's Fifth Symphony Scherzo
The Minnesota Orchestra, who have recently signed a new three-year contract following a 15-month musician lockout, perform under their former music director Osmo Vänskä at the 2012 BBC Proms. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase ...
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ArticleJascha Heifetz performs Bach's Chaconne
A 1970 recording shows the 69-year-old violinist on fine form. Read The Strad’s 7 ways to play perfect chords and see how other great violinists tackled the same work: James Ehnes Arthur Grumiaux Ida Haendel Gidon Kremer Midori Nathan Milstein Viktoria Mullova Gil Shaham Isaac Stern Maxim Vengerov Frank Peter ...
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ArticleCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra violinist awarded RPS/ABO Salomon Prize
Catherine Arlidge is the first violinist to receive the award recognising UK orchestral musicians
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ArticleBach's Chaconne on film: Nathan Milstein
A mighty performance of the ultimate violin work by the Russian violinist
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ArticleTwelve-year-old violinist takes top prize at Jefferson Competition
A twelve-year-old violinist from California has become one of the youngest prize winners at the Jefferson Symphony International Young Artists Competition in the contest's history. Robert Chien, who was awarded the second prize, performed Pablo de Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy, op.25 in the finals of the competition, held ...
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ArticleSphinx Organisation string competition winners to benefit from $4m gift
The Competition is open to Black and Latino string players residing in the US
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ArticleThe Silk Road Ensemble performs Arabian Waltz
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma founded the Silk Road Project in 1998 to develop cultural and educational projects through interaction between different performers and cultures from around the world. Here the ensemble performs Rabih Abou-Khalil's Arabian Waltz. The Silk Road Project features in our Alternative Ensembles feature published in the January ...
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ArticleBerklee World Strings perform The Passion of Rumi
The Berklee World Strings and vocalist Mayssa Karaa perform Hafez Nazeri's The Passion of Rumi at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, Massachusetts in November 2012. The performance features violin soloist Layth Othman Al Rubaye and cello soloist Naseem Alatrash, who is interviewed in our Alternative Ensembles ...
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ArticleViolinist Nemanja Radulović signs an international contract with DG
The 28-year-old Serbian recorded a Paganini album for DG France last year
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ArticleThe Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments to celebrate Will Kemp's 100-mile dance
The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments will celebrate the antics of the 16th-century Shakespearean actor Will Kemp this month when it recreates his famous nine-day dance from London to Norwich with a programme of music performed on contemporary instruments - including reconstructions of rare and obsolete ...
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ArticleZoë Keating performs JoCo Cruise Crazy 3
The Strad January issue cover star Zoë Keating performs her composition JoCo Cruise Crazy 3.To read the interview, download the digital edition of the January issue here or subscribe to The Strad.
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ArticleGary Hoffman performs Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor
Cellist Gary Hoffman, who gives a Masterclass on Brahms in our January 2014 issue, here performs the fourth movement of the composer's great Piano Quintet in F minor with a stellar team of violinists Pinchas Zukerman, Ida Kavafian, violist Paul Neubauer and David Golub on piano, in ...
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ArticleViolinist Augustin Hadelich to make Walt Disney Concert Hall debut
He replaces Christian Tetzlaff, who has pulled out of the LA Phil concerts due to illness
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ArticleThe Strad Features Index available to download
Looking for a specific article published in The Strad magazine? You can now download The Strad features indexes from the past four years, 2010 to 2013, by clicking on the PDFs below. Each index includes every article published in The Strad magazine and supplements that year, and ...
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ArticleGary Hoffman performs Bruch's Kol Nidrei
Gary Hoffman gives a Masterclass on Brahms's Third Cello Sonata in our January issue. Here he performs Bruch's Kol Nidrei with the Indiana University orchestra in a 75th birthday tribute to János Starker.Read some of Gary Hoffman's cello insights here and download the digital edition of the January ...
