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ArticleMstislav Rostropovich
During the post-war period few musical virtuosi attained world fame as rapidly as the Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. Born the son of a cellist in the Azerbaijani province of Baku, 1927, Rostropovich started to teach himself by copying his father’s actions at the instrument. At the age ...
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ArticleViktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova was born in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, in Soviet Russia. She studied at the Central Music School of Moscow and the Moscow Conservatory and forged an international reputation after winning first prize at the 1980 Sibelius Competition in Helsinki and the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky ...
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ArticleNikolaj Znaider
Soloist, conductor and chamber musician, Nikolaj Znaider studied with the Russian pedagogue Boris Kuschnir and, in 1997, won one of the most highly respected violin prizes: the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels. He now performs regularly with the world's leading orchestras and was invited by Valery Gergiev ...
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ArticlePaul Watkins
Paul Watkins is a Welsh cellist and conductor. He studied with William Pleeth, Melissa Phelps and Johannes Goritzki and at the age of 20 was appointed Principal Cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He has performed regularly with all the major British orchestras and world renowned conductors ...
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ArticlePinchas Zukerman
Performing on both violin and viola, Pinchas Zukerman was part of a circle of prodigious young musicians including Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman and Jacqueline du Pré. Born in Israel in 1948 to parents who had moved to Tel Aviv from Poland after surviving concentration camps, ...
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ArticleWilliam Primrose
Born in Glasgow into a musical household, William Primrose began lessons on the violin at the age of 4 before moving with his family to London where he studied at the Guildhall School of Music and made his debut as a solo violinist at the Queen's Hall, ...
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ArticleVadim Repin
Vadim Repin was born in Novosibirsk, Western Siberia in 1971. His association with the violin came about by chance when his mother took him to a music course to study the accordion, but the only place left was on the violin course. A child prodigy, he won ...
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ArticleRuggiero Ricci
Born in California to Italian parents, the American violinist Ruggiero Ricci started the violin aged seven, studying with Louis Persinger and Elizabeth Lackey. He gave his first public performance aged 10 in San Francisco, where he played worked by Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski, and soon afterwards he made ...
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ArticleTabea Zimmermann
Born in Lahr, Germany, Tabea Zimmermann began learning the viola at the age of three before studying with Ulrich Koch at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and subsequently with Sándor Végh at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg. Her career was launched by winning in quick succession the Geneva, Maurice ...
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ArticlePablo Casals €“ Bach Cello Suite no.1
12 cover stars from The Strad 2013 January Félix Lajkó – the boundary-busting horse-whispering fiddler from Hungary February Alisa Weilerstein – Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations March the Calder Quartet – Beethoven's String Quartet op.95 April Christian Tetzlaff – Mozart Violin Concerto no.4 May Tabea Zimmermann – Bartók Viola Concerto ...
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ArticleBruno Giuranna Brahms masterclass
12 cover stars from The Strad 2013 January Félix Lajkó – the boundary-busting horse-whispering fiddler from Hungary February Alisa Weilerstein – Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations March the Calder Quartet – Beethoven's String Quartet op.95 April Christian Tetzlaff – Mozart Violin Concerto no.4 May Tabea Zimmermann – Bartók Viola Concerto ...
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ArticleYura Lee performs Hindemith's Viola Sonata op.11 no.4
Violist Yura Lee and pianist Timothy Lovelace perform Hindemith's Sonata for Viola and Piano op.11 no.4. Paul Hindemith did more than any other composer of his era to champion the viola as a solo instrument. In our article 'Viola Visionary' in The Strad, December 2013, Lawrence Power, ...
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ArticleDavid Aaron Carpenter performs Piazzolla's Primavera Porteña
12 cover stars from The Strad 2013 January Félix Lajkó – the boundary-busting horse-whispering fiddler from Hungary February Alisa Weilerstein – Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations March the Calder Quartet – Beethoven's String Quartet op.95 April Christian Tetzlaff – Mozart Violin Concerto no.4 May Tabea Zimmermann – Bartók Viola Concerto ...
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ArticleJordi Savall – Lachrimae Caravaggio
12 cover stars from The Strad 2013January Félix Lajkó – the boundary-busting horse-whispering fiddler from HungaryFebruary Alisa Weilerstein – Tchaikovsky's Rococo VariationsMarch the Calder Quartet – Beethoven's String Quartet op.95April Christian Tetzlaff – Mozart Violin Concerto no.4May Tabea Zimmermann – Bartók Viola ConcertoJune Raphael Wallfisch on his 1865 ...
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ArticleRaphael Wallfisch – 1865 Vuillaume cello 'Sheremetev'
12 cover stars from The Strad 2013January Félix Lajkó – the boundary-busting horse-whispering fiddler from HungaryFebruary Alisa Weilerstein – Tchaikovsky's Rococo VariationsMarch the Calder Quartet – Beethoven's String Quartet op.95April Christian Tetzlaff – Mozart Violin Concerto no.4May Tabea Zimmermann – Bartók Viola ConcertoJune Raphael Wallfisch on his 1865 ...
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ArticleTabea Zimmermann performs Bartók's Viola Concerto
12 cover stars from The Strad 2013 January Félix Lajkó – the boundary-busting horse-whispering fiddler from Hungary February Alisa Weilerstein – Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations March the Calder Quartet – Beethoven's String Quartet op.95 April Christian Tetzlaff – Mozart Violin Concerto no.4 May Tabea Zimmermann – Bartók Viola ...
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ArticleCharlie Chaplin plays the violin in The Vagabond
The great comedian was a keen amateur violinist all his life, and used his left-handed violin skills to comedic effect in this film. To find out more about his passion for the instrument, read this article, first published in The Strad, December 2008.
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ArticleGerman music schools report 14 per cent rise in student numbers
The number of young people learning musical instruments in Germany has risen by 14 per cent in the past decade, according to new figures released by the Association of German Music Schools (AGMS). A total of 920,000 students are currently involved in music education programmes, compared with ...
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ArticleThe Strad January 2014 issue is on sale now
The January issue of The Strad is now on sale. In our 'Fresh Thinking' edition Californian cello innovator and sound sculptor Zoë Keating reveals how technology and the internet have helped her home-grown music to flourish outside the mainstream. Our article on pop-up exhibitions investigates why a ...
