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ArticleChristian Tetzlaff performs Mozart's Violin Concerto no.4
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 ...
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ArticleCellist wins £8,000 first prize at 2013 Penderecki Competition
French–Armenian cellist Astrig Siranossian has won the first prize at the second International Krzysztof Penderecki Cello Competition. The 25-year-old (pictured) received PLN40,000 (£8,000) and performance opportunities with a number of Polish orchestras. She was also awarded two special prizes, including one for the best performance of Penderecki’s ...
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ArticleThe Calder Quartet performing 'String Quartet Op 95 'Serioso' (Beethoven)' on KCRW
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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ArticleAlisa Weilerstein performs Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations
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 ...
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ArticleHungarian violinist János Négyesy dies aged 75
Violinist and pedagogue János Négyesy died on 20 December at the age of 75. For more than three decades he was a member of the music faculty at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), also giving masterclasses worldwide. A leading advocate for contemporary music, Négyesy ...
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ArticleLajkó Félix – A Madárnak
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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ArticleAmerican violinist Maud Powell to receive posthumous lifetime achievement Grammy
The great American violinist Maud Powell (1867–1920) will be awarded a posthumous lifetime achievement award by the Recording Academy at a ceremony the night before the 56th Grammys in January. Powell is credited with being a groundbreaking pioneer, whose consummate skill and communicative abilities impressed aficionados and the ...
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ArticleZoë Keating performs Escape Artist
Canadian cellist Zoë Keating, our January 'Fresh Thinking' issue cover star, performs her composition Escape Artist.To read the interview, subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial.
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ArticleSergey Malov performs Bach's Sixth Cello Suite on a violoncello da spalla
Russian violinist and violist Sergey Malov performs Bach's Sixth Cello Suite on a violoncello da spalla. The Belgian violinist, violist and conductor Sigiswald Kuijken, who rediscovered and revived the instrument a decade ago (see news story) believes that the instrument for which Bach wrote his Cello Suites was ...
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ArticleStolen ‘ex-Kym' Stradivarius violin fetches £1.385m at auction
The Stradivarius violin belonging to London-based violinist Min-Jin Kym that was stolen at a Pret a Manger sandwich bar in London’s Euston Station in November 2010 and later recovered by police, has sold for £1.385m ($2.27m) at auction. The sale price exceeds the £1.2m valuation attached to ...
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ArticleSistema Scotland to launch Big Noise project in Aberdeen
Sistema Scotland, the five-year-old youth music programme based on Venezuela’s El Sistema, has announced plans for its third children’s orchestra project in Scotland. Big Noise Torry will be based in the Torry area of Aberdeen and involve children from several local schools. The aim is to have ...
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ArticleBig Noise Raploch performing with the BBC SSO
In the spring of 2011 members of Raploch's Big Noise orchestra played side by side with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at City Halls in Glasgow. None of the children from this, the UK's first El Sistema-inspired orchestra, had played for more than two and a half ...
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ArticleGermany's Notos Piano Quartet triumphs in Italy
The Notos Quartet from Germany has clinched the €12,000 first prize at Italy’s Premio Vittorio Gui International Chamber Music Competition after performing Brahms’s Piano Quartet in C minor op.60 in the final round. The win is a particular coup for the ensemble since the last two editions ...
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ArticleSigiswald Kuijken performs Vivaldi's Concerto for Violoncello da Spalla in D
Belgian violinist, violist and conductor Sigiswald Kuijken will perform and direct Vivaldi's Concerto for Violoncello da Spalla in D with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London on 25 March 2014. Click here to read the news story. Subscribe to The Strad ...
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ArticleExtinct stringed instrument to make its London debut
A small-scale cello that sits against the shoulder and is played like a violin will make its London debut as part of a programme from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) on 25 March at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre. The 18th century violoncello da ...
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ArticleThe Carducci Quartet performs Mendelssohn's String Quartet no.6
The Carducci Quartet performs Mendelssohn's String Quartet no.6 in F minor op.80 at Kings Place in 2012. An interview with Matthew Denton and Emma Denton, the quartet's first violinist and cellist respectively, is published in The Strad, December 2013 (see Double Acts back page feature). Subscribe to The ...
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ArticleBrussels Philharmonic string players to benefit from new instrument investment scheme
The Brussels Philharmonic has set up a new instrument foundation to help investors and philanthropists purchase musical instruments to be played by the orchestra’s musicians. The Brussels Philharmonic Foundation has been created with stringed instruments in particular in mind, being on average the most costly of orchestral ...
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ArticleEastern Europeans dominate at third Toru? International Violin Competition
Four Eastern Europeans and two South Koreans made it to the final round of this year’s International Violin Competition in Toru?, Poland, which ran from 23 November–2 December. The top prize of €12,000 went to Polish violinist Anna Malesza (pictured), a student of Marcin Baranowski at the Academy ...
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter performs Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
Anne-Sophie Mutter, The Strad's December issue cover star, has spent 37 years on the concert stage, having made her performing debut in 1976 at the Lucerne Festival, playing Mozart’s D major Violin Concerto. To mark nearly four decades of music-making, The Strad has brought together some of ...
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ArticleBerlin declares viola 'Instrument of the Year 2014'
An annual citywide festival in Berlin that spotlights underrepresented musical instruments will turn its attention on the viola next year with a series of concerts, workshops and events at locations across the German capital. The year-long event, simply called ‘Instrument of the Year’, launched in 2011 with ...
