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FocusKaunzner in Korea: a nation of winners
In recent years, string players from South Korea have made headlines as the winners of numerous international competitions. German violinist–composer Viktoria Elisabeth Kaunzner speaks to South Korean colleagues and draws on her own teaching experience in the country to examine the phenomenon
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Bruno Philippe: Sky’s the limit
This month, young French cellist Bruno Philippe releases his first album as an official Harmonia Mundi artist. He chats with Charlotte Gardner about the merits of gut strings, old instruments versus new ones, inspirational teachers, his public image – and leaving behind the competition circuit to focus on real life ...
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Postcard from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Subversion in sound
Tom Stewart travels to the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival to hear music that brings the world to the strong quartet - and vice versa
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Pekka Kuusisto, a green violinist
Elegy for the Forest , Pekka Kuusisto’s short film made in collaboration with Greenpeace, aims to build awareness of deforestation. He speaks to Peter Quantrill about combining art and activism
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The singing, humming, whistling, hollering, growling, storytelling bassist
During the past half-century many works have been written for vocalising double bassists. Lisa Mezzacappa delves into this highly creative phenomenon
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Gidon Kremer on Mieczysław Weinberg: Testament to turbulent times
This year marks a century since the birth of Polish–Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg. Violinist Gidon Kremer tells Tom Stewart why he has become one of the composer’s greatest champions
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason: First steps in fame
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason won BBC Young Musician in 2016 and performed at last year’s royal wedding. Pauline Harding witnesses him in his role as an ambassador for an educational music charity, and speaks to him about his short but intense career so far
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Tan Dun and Eldbjørg Hemsing: the folk connection
Chinese composer Tan Dun’s new concerto for Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing draws on traditions common to the homelands of both artists. Andrew Mellor speaks to them about this latest in a series of collaborations
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Itamar Zornam, voice for Israel
Violinist Itamar Zorman’s new recording highlights the transition from European to Middle Eastern influences in the works of Paul Ben-Haim, as he tells Gavin Dixon
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Alfred Staar: sound master
As a leading proponent of the Viennese sound, Alfred Staar’s influence continues to be felt today – no fewer than 22 of his former students currently hold posts in the Vienna Philharmonic. Inga Brandini shares a conversation with the great professor from 15 March 2000, shortly before his death a ...
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Augustin Hadelich: brilliant concepts
Since winning the Indianapolis Competition in 2006, violinist Augustin Hadelich has built a reputation for musically astute interpretations in wide-ranging repertoire, much of it written in the 20th and 21st centuries. He speaks to Chloe Cutts about his latest recording – an unusual pairing of Brahms and Ligeti
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Rachel Barton Pine and her daughter share two pieces from ‘Music by Black Composers’
In this video, violinist Rachel Barton Pine and her daughter, Sylvia Pine, visit WFMT, an FM radio station in Chicago, to inaugurate a new family-friendly request programme ‘Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice.’ Here they perform two works from forthcoming ‘Music by Black Composers Violin Volume 2’: ‘Such Thanks to Spirits’ ...
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Session report: zooming in on Beethoven
Trio con Brio Copenhagen is marking its 20th anniversary by recording the complete Beethoven piano trios. Andrew Mellor attends a session for the group’s third volume, including the monumental ‘Archduke’
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Standing Strong: Shostakovich’s violin works
Fifty years ago David Oistrakh premiered Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata, written for the violinist’s 60th birthday. Only two further works by Shostakovich for solo violinist survive: the concertos, both for Oistrakh. Andrew Morris examines all three pieces, uncovering their interpretative challenges in conversation with Gidon Kremer, Julia Fischer and Vadim Gluzman ...
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Shanghai Quartet: Musical Emissaries
The Shanghai Quartet celebrates its 35th anniversary during the 2018–19 season by performing eight complete Beethoven cycles around the world. The players speak to Charlotte Smith about forming at a time when Western chamber music was barely understood in their native China, and about promoting the art form to Chinese ...
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Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No 9, ‘Kreutzer’
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Lambert Orkis perform Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No 9, ‘Kreutzer’ in this concert filmed at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris.
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Christian Tetzlaff and friends from the Berlin Philharmonic play Schubert’s Octet
The full concert can be seen here: https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/concert/20466/?a=youtube c=true
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Hilary Hahn plays Brahms’s Violin Concerto
The violinist performs Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op 77, with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi.
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Janine Jansen and friends play Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence
The list of musicians for this performance of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence comprises: violinists Janine Jansen and Vilde Frang, violists Lawrence Power, Julian Rachlin and cellists Nicolas Altstaed, and Jens Peter Maintz.
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Lisa Batiashvili, Sebastian Klinger and Milana Chernyavska play Dvořák’s Dumky Trio
The violinist, cellist and pianist play Antonín Dvořák’s Piano Trio No.4, ’Dumky’.
