All cello articles – Page 4
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VideoBohemian Rhapsody for cello sextet
Amit Peled and the Peabody Cello Gang perform a new arrangement of Bohemian Rhapsody for six cellos. The five young cellists are students in Peled’s studio at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. They are Jiaoyang Xu, Mafalda Santos, Joseph Staten, Ismael Guerrero, and Tzu-Jou Yeh The arrangement, ...
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Raphael Wallfisch, John York: Brahms Cello Sonatas
A duo of nearly four decades’ standing celebrates with Brahms
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason: 'I was always being inspired by amazing musicians – and friends'
The British cellist, cover star of The Strad’s March 2019 issue, discusses learning, improvisation and inspirational teachers in conversation with Pauline Harding
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5 reasons Boccherini is actually worth getting to know
Cellist Peggy Nolan argues that posterity has been unfair to this cello virtuoso who was also a unique and prolific composer
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Séverine Ballon plays Rebecca Saunders' 'Solitude' for solo cello
British composer Rebecca Saunders was this week awarded the €250,000 Ernst von Siemens Music prize, becoming the first female composer to win it in its 45-year history, and only the second woman overall after Anne-Sophie Mutter in 2008. This 2013 work was described in The Strad’s review of ...
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Cellist Uzi Wiesel has died aged 92
Student of Felix Salmond, Bernard Greenhouse and Pablo Casals who had long career as soloist, chamber musician and educator
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6 recording tips from Daniel Müller-Schott
The German cellist reveals some of the practical and artistic conditions he got right for his new album of Russian repertoire
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Johannes Goritzki obituary: cellist, conductor and committed educator
Colleague and long term friend Moray Welsh remembers a hugely influential teacher and mentor who has died aged 76
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Casals Foundation award given jointly for the first time
Two young cellists share €24,000 prize pot in competition held in El Vendrell, Catalonia, chaired by Marta Casals Istomin
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Santiago Cañón Valencia plays Bach Chaconne cello transcription
Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón Valencia, who was recently presented with the 2018 János Starker Award here performs his own transcription of the Chaconne from Bach’s Partita no.2. This video was made at the Luis Angel Arango Hall in Bogotá on 13 August 2017.
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Nicolas Altstaedt plays Sarabande from first cello suite
German/French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt plays the Sarabande from Bach’s Cello Suite no.1 in G at the Bimhuis Amsterdam This is an excerpt from the 29 November 2015 edition of ‘Vrije Geluiden’ (Free Sounds), a programme on Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. More on: http://www.vpro.nl/vrije-geluiden
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Developing arm, wrist and finger vibrato
Rok Klopčič takes a look at different types of vibrato through the eyes of the great teachers and players - from the June 2003 issue
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Hungarian Dance no.5 arranged for cello & piano – Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexandre Tharaud
Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexandre Tharaud perform their own transcription of Brahms’ Hungarian Dance no.5, originally written for violin and piano. The duo has recorded the whole set of dances along with the composer’s two cello sonatas. The Strad review reads: ‘The players’ idiomatic arrangements of six of Brahms’s ...
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Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexandre Tharaud: Brahms Cello Sonatas
Brahms takes flight in these light-as-air interpretations
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Technique: How to vary and enhance your cello pizzicato
Soloist and chamber musician Christoph Richter talks about good pizz technique with particular attention to the range of sound demanded by Debussy's Cello Sonata. From The Strad's November 2015 issue
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Massed cellos play James Brown at New Directions Cello Festival
This video was made on 15 July at the final concert of the New Directions Cello Festival Köln 2018 at the WDR-Funkhaus Köln. The arrangemend of James Brown’s ‘I Feel Good’ is by festival co-director Gunther Tiedemann. The soloists are Rupert Gillett and Veit Steinmann
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Paulo Cello Competition enters second round
Quinquennial event taking place across three Finnish cities promotes nine young cellists for semi-finals
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10 tips for improving your scales
Guidance from The Strad’s archive on tuning, bow control, shifting, direction and pulse
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Natalie Clein on Bloch's solo cello suites – and connecting with her Jewish roots
Ahead of her Wigmore Hall recital on Sunday, the British cellist recalls her first contact with Ernest Bloch’s music and its deeper significance to her
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Piecing together the history of the
'Mara' Stradivari celloIts fate was almost to be consigned to the murky depths of an Uruguayan river but it continues to delight and inspire audiences of the present day. Alessandra Barabaschi delves into the dramatic life of the ‘Mara’ Strad
