All Chamber articles – Page 10
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ArticleHaydn's Cello Concerto no.1 arranged for seven cellos
Cellist Amit Peled and his Peabody Institute students perform Haydn's Cello Concerto no.1 in C major in an arrangement for solo cello and six-cello accompaniment by Douglas Moore.Read Peled's blog on 'How I came to play Pablo Casals’s 1733 Goffriller cello'.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital ...
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ArticleThe Ebène Quartet performs The Beatles' Come Together
Quatuor Ebène performs an original arrangement of 'Come Together' by The Beatles. The French quartet has just announced the appointment of Adrien Boisseau as its new violist from January 2015, following the departure of Mathieu Herzog, who performed with the ensemble for 15 years.Subscribe to The Strad or ...
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ArticleRichard Tognetti performs the Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Ges’' 'Carrodus' violin, 1743
Richard Tognetti performs the Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù' 'Carrodus' violin, 1743 with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in his own arrangement of the third movement of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The instrument features in The Strad's 2015 calendar, 'Violins of the Stars', on sale now. John Dilworth explores the ...
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ArticleDouble bassist Christine Hoock performs Bach's Gamba Sonata no.2
German double bassist Christine Hoock performs a transcription of the fourth movement of Bach's Gamba Sonata no.2 with harpsichordist Florian Birsak. Hoock contributes a Practice Diary to The Strad's October 2014 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...
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ArticleBrooklyn Rider performs Debussy's String Quartet
Contemporary New York-based string quartet Brooklyn Rider performs the second movement from Debussy's String Quartet. The ensemble features in The Strad's October 2014 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click ...
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ArticleCavaleri Quartet performs Schubert's Death and the Maiden
The Cavaleri Quartet performs the First Movement of Schubert's String Quartet no.14, 'Death and the Maiden' at Schubertiade in Austria in 2013. The quartet's violist Ann Beilby contributes a Practice Diary to The Strad's September 2014 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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BlogsPerforming from memory has given our string quartet new life
After twelve years together, playing and recording from memory were key to an exciting rebirth for the Chiara Quartet, writes cellist Gregory Beaver
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ArticleTime for Three performs Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
American string trio Time for Three, a group that defies traditional genre classification, performs an original arrangement of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah at a workshop for high school musicians in Kitchener, Ontario. Read Time for Three's 7 ways to build a 21st century music career. Subscribe to ...
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Blogs7 ways to build a 21st-century music career by Time for Three
Violinists Zach De Pue and Nick Kendall, and double bassist Ranaan Meyer talk about their path to success
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ArticleA twelve-minute history of the violin
Violinist Charles Yang gives his humorous (and informative) take on the history of violin music - summing up 'hits' of the decades in a twelve-minute performance. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click ...
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ArticleCellist Leonard Rose performs Beethoven with pianist Glenn Gould
Leonard Rose and Glenn Gould perform the first movement from Beethoven's Third Cello Sonata in 1960. Rose is one of the inspirational teachers featured in The Strad's September issue education focus, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of ...
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BlogsHow to find a new member for your string quartet
The Wihan Quartet's fist violinist Leos ?epický describes the process of replacing the ensemble's longtime viola player
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov performs Bazzini's Dance of the Goblins
In celebration of Maxim Vengerov's 40th birthday today (20 August 2014), here is the virtuoso violinist in a showstopping performance of Bazzini's The Dance of the Goblins and Khachaturian's Sabre Dance with pianist Itamar Golan in Amsterdam in 1994.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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ArticleHenschel Quartet performs Beethoven's String Quartet no.9
The Henschel Quartet, which has contributed a masterclass feature on Schulhoff's Five Pieces for String Quartet to The Strad's August 2014 issue, performs the first movement of Beethoven's 'Razumovsky' String Quartet no.9 in Tokyo. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of ...
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ArticleDouble bassist Gary Karr performs Paganini's Three Variations
Double bassist Gary Karr, who had written about the need for orchestral conductors' attitudes to change towards his instrument, gives a comical performance of Paganini's Three Variations, originally composed for 'that puny, small, tiny little instrument, the violin' with pianist Harmon Lewis. Subscribe to The Strad or ...
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ArticleAnne Akiko Meyers and Vadim Gluzman perform Bach's Double Concerto
Violinists Anne Akiko Meyers and Vadim Gluzman play on the 'Vieuxtemps' Guarneri del Gesu, dated 1741 and the 'Auer' Stradivarius, dated 1690. Their performance of the Bach Double Concerto took place at the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in Chicago on 4 June 2014. Subscribe to The ...
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ArticleDidier Lockwood performs Tiger Rag
Jazz violinist Didier Lockwood, who is interviewed in The Strad's July 2014 issue, performs Stéphane Grappelli's arrangement of Tiger Rag with violinist Fiona Monbet, guitarist Biréli Lagrène and double bassist Diego Imbert at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris in November 2013. Subscribe to The Strad or ...
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ArticleJulia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott perform Halvorsen's Passacaglia
Violinist Julia Fischer and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott perform Halvorsen's Passacaglia on December 16, 2007 in Saarbrücken.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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BlogsPlaying chamber music in adverse conditions can be a useful rehearsal tool
The Strad's assistant editor Pauline Harding performed with her quartet as part of 'Musicircus' at the Aldeburgh Festival – and fought to be heard in a cacophony of whistling winds, brass bands and bongos
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ArticleGuarneri Quartet performs Beethoven's 'Rasumovsky' Quartet no.3
The Guarneri Quartet performs the Allegro molto from Beethoven's 'Rasumovsky' String Quartet, op.39 no.3 in 1986. The ensemble's former violist and founding member Michael Tree, who celebrates his 80th birthday this year, reveals his passions and interests in The Strad's June 2014 issue, out now. Subscribe ...