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NewsMusical chairs: new Stradivaris for top violin soloists
Eldbjørg Hemsing receives the 1707 ‘Rivaz, Baron Gutmann’ while Janine Jansen has the 1715 ‘Rode, Duke of Cambridge’
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VideoLigeti Quartet performs Christian Mason’s Dyngylday
The composition forms part of the ensemble’s forthcoming album of Mason’s works
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VideoIván Fischer on his new invention: an acoustic-enhancing mask
In this video, Iván Fischer, artistic director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, describes his new invention: a music-enhancing face mask. ‘One of Mozart’s favourite ideas was to turn necessity into a virtue,’ says the Hungarian conductor. ‘Now people are wearing masks and it’s a necessity but it’s also an ...
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VideoLast Night of Proms 2020 in an empty Royal Albert Hall
The finale of the 2020 Last Night of the Proms, conducted by Dalia Stasevska, performed without a live audience for the first time in the festival’s history Read: Rule, Britannia! will now be sung at BBC Proms 2020 Read: Dalia Stasevska wrongly blamed ro Rule, Britannia! decision, say sources close ...
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VideoDame Diana Rigg presents Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending
Paying tribute Dame Diana Rigg, who died yesterday aged 82, here is a video of the actress from 2012, presenting a performance of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending as it was originally heard in the composer’s time: in a version for violin and piano, and staged at Shirehampton Public Hall ...
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BlogsA break from string playing can be a constructive experience
With many musicians returning to the stage for the first time in months, violinist Cara Laskaris reflects on her own experiences to offer some words of advice
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NewsIndianapolis Symphony Orchestra agrees pandemic pay deal
Players will receive a third of their 2019–20 base salary from January 2021
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NewsYouth orchestra awarded €15,000 Würth Prize
The North German Youth Philharmonic Orchestra was commended for its ’willingness to take risks’
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FocusAdvice I'd give my younger self: violinist Hilary Hahn
Identify your own instincts and find ways to bring those ideas across effectively, says the American musician
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VideoCBSO gives a centenary concert
On 5 September 1920, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra gave its very first concert. 100 years later (to the very hour), the CBSO celebrated its 100th birthday with an online celebration. Simon Rattle conducted, CBSO’s conductors past and present give interviews and there was a guest appearance from Sheku ...
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VideoPizzicato Polka at 2020 Proms
In this video the BBC Concert Ochestra under Bramwell Tovey played Johann Strauss’s Pizzicato Polka as part of a Viennese Night at the BBC Proms on 31 August 2020. Watch: Beethovenia: all nine symphonies reimagined Read: Rule, Britannia! will now be sung at BBC Proms 2020
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VideoLockdown commissions 4: Lawrence Power plays Cassandra Miller’s ‘Daylonging, Slacktide’
In the fourth of his ten ‘lockdown commissions’ performances, filmed in and on top of iconic empty venues, violist Lawrence Power plays Cassandra Miller’s ’Daylonging, Slacktide’, filmed in and around Snape Maltings. This is what Miller says about the piece: ‘In March 2020, I found myself at Snape Maltings ...
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Focus‘That pre-performance adrenaline rush made me feel alive again’ – Guy Johnston
Ahead of his streamed chamber music festival at Hatfield House, the British cellist shares his experience of performing for online broadcast during the lockdown
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VideoRooftop performance from The Weeklies
The Weeklies (a trio formed during the pandemic comprising guitarist Jordan Dodson, double bassist Louis Levitt and violinist Jonathan Miron) perform one of their new songs - “You and your sister” - as part of a rooftop streaming series in New York City. The concert was presented by ‘Arts ...
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NewsRinat Ibragimov, the LSO’s Principal Emeritus Double Bass, has died
The double bassist was 60 years old
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NewsAriana Nelson to join Carpe Diem Quartet
The cellist succeeds Greg Sauer, who has left after eleven years with the group
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ArticleMajor US agency goes bust
As Covid-19 prevents artists from making money, those who represent them are feeling the pinch too
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Article‘Young players today should be realistic about making a career’ - violinist Pinchas Zukerman
The violinist reflects on the prospects and attitudes of young musicians, as he remembers Isaac Stern in his 100th anniversary year
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VideoAyanna Witter-Johnson does Destiny’s Child classic ‘Survivor’
A new arrangement of the Destiny’s Child classic ‘Survivor’, produced by young musicians aged 11-17 from Trinity Laban Conservatoire and guest artist and Trinity alumna Ayanna Witter-Johnson, the singer, songwriter and cellist. Watch: From My Room Orchestra: Philip Glass’s Company Watch: From My Room Orchestra: Pachelbel Canon
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VideoMerging Parallels - a new single mingling South Indian and European traditions
This new single composed by violinist Apoorva Krishna is an attempt to unite traditional South Indian classical musical form with Western Harmony. Read: Tarisio Trust Young Artist Grants 2017 awarded to string players and ensembles
