All Artists articles – Page 26
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BlogsViolinist Augustin Hadelich on performing a concerto with the LA Phil at three days' notice
The soloist describes his recent experience filling in for Christian Tetzlaff at LA's Walt Disney Concert Hall
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BlogsJascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein – two titanic violinists who still divide opinion today
Tully Potter compares the recorded legacy of the two renowned performers
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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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FocusJascha Heifetz – unique and influential violin virtuoso
Julian Haylock considers the dazzling technique, supreme concentration and absolute clarity of interpretation that made Jascha Heifetz a unique performer
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FocusCelebrating the great violinist Nathan Milstein
In honour of Nathan Milstein's 110th birthday today, The Strad revisits a ‘Great Violinists' article by Julian Haylock, published in the September 2009 issue
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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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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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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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FocusA luthier's tribute to Nelson Mandela
Inspired by South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize winners, luthier Brian Lisus made a quartet of instruments that could spread a message of reconciliation and help some of the world's poorest children to make music. Peter Somerford traces its evolution
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Kim Kashkashian: ‘The emotional landscape of Hindemith's music is a joy to enter'
Paul Hindemith did more than any other composer of his era to champion the viola as a solo instrument. Fifty years after his death, the American violist Kim Kashkashian reflects on the rewards and challenges of his music
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BlogsLeonidas Kavakos on modern violin making: 'This is an art that I want to support'
The Greek violinist offers an enlightened view of modern instruments that might inspire other players, as Ariane Todes reports
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BlogsSteven Isserlis on his long-time collaborator, the late John Tavener
The British cellist talks to Chloe Cutts about the conception and premiere of The Protecting Veil
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ArticleLeila Josefowicz's violin sells for £156,000 at auction
The violin that Leila Josefowicz used as her main concert instrument for the last twelve years was sold at a London auction yesterday. The violin fetched £156,000 (including buyer's premium) at Ingles & Hayday. The instrument, dated around 1750, was catalogued as 'probably by Michele Angelo Bergonzi' ...
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FocusSix great performances of Beethoven's ‘Kreutzer' Sonata on film
Over the last two weeks we’ve been posting videos of some of the finest performances of Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata available on YouTube. The playlist begins with precious 1926 footage of the Russian violinist Efrem Zimbalist performing the last movement of the sonata with the pianist Harold Bauer, ...
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FocusJoshua Bell on the Stradivaris of his life
Our November issue cover star describes his relationship with his ‘Huberman' Stradivari violin in conversation with Sam Zygmuntowicz
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ArticleThe Strad November 2013 issue is on sale now
Our North America issue stars Joshua Bell and his 1713 'Huberman' Stradivari violin
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ArticleInternational organisation set up to promote music education and cultural understanding
Violinist Tasmin Little is among the artists lending their support to a new organisation being launched this month to promote and music education and cultural dialogue across the Mediterranean and the Middle East.EMMA for Peace, or the Euro Mediterranean Music Academy, is supported by UNESCO and seeks to create a ...
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ArticleSydney violinist Grace Clifford sweeps the board at Kendall Competition
Violinist Grace Clifford has won a clutch of prizes at the Kendall National Violin Competition in Australia. The 15-year-old took the first prize, as well as the audience choice award, the Richard Pollett Sonata Prize and prizes for the best performance of a solo sonata and partita by Bach. Clifford ...
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Otherworldly sounds: The Casals Festival in Perpigan
While pondering the fluctuating nature of musical trends and the idea of an underlying interpretative truth, our reviewer from September 1951 finds Pablo Casals to be a perfectly natural performer
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FocusPeace, enchantment and the enduring legacy of Casals
In this report from the Bach Festival at Prades published in The Strad July 1950, writer Christina Thoresby describes the love and respect felt towards the Catalan cellist – one of our great players of the past in the October issue
