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FocusSlide rules: 10 thoughts on portamento
Sinning or singing? The transition from one note to another on the same string without a break is a peculiarly sensitive topic, as seen in these clippings from The Strad archive
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VideoBach Double Concerto for New York City Health and Hospitals
In this video, the Camerata Notturna, an orchestra of healthcare professionals, perform the Vivace from Bach’s Double Violin Concerto, with violin soloists Cho-Liang Lin and David Chan. They are fundraising for NYC Health and Hospital: in their words ‘a critical resource for all New Yorkers, but especially for the under-resourced ...
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WinWIN the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam’s latest Haydn CD
The recording by Resonus Classics is available now
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Focus5 festivals that hope to go ahead this summer (at least in part)
Although many festivals have been forced to cancel this summer’s plans owing to the coronavirus pandemic, the following are still hoping to go ahead - at least in part - in accordance with social distancing rules
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FocusNathan Meltzer: Life Lessons
The up-and-coming US violinist on his early years in Austria and summertime chamber music by the sea
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VideoMusicians in isolation: Alina Ibragimova
The Russian-British violinist describes what life has held for her since the lockdown started, from the little pleasures of being able to ‘buy milk for the fridge’, to the challenge of tackling all 24 Paganini Caprices.
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VideoMusicians from ‘TRIKESTRA’ perform in 360 degrees
The ensemble, made up of players from three Berlin orchestras, play Beethoven in a lockdown performance
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NewsBeethoven Pastoral Project announces live-streamed event
The programme will take place on Friday 5 June, broadcast from Beethoven’s birthplace in Bonn
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VideoViolinist Eleanor Corr plays both parts of Ligeti duet for ROSL at Home
The winner of the Royal Over-Seas League Strings Prize at this year’s Annual Music Competition performs both parts of Ligeti’s Joc from isolation
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NewsTurkish viola player Ruşen Güneş has died
The 80-year-old, who lived in London, was a keen promoter of music from his homeland
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VideoVirtual Benedetti Sessions: Grand Finale
Three weeks of music-making come to a culmination in this concert from Sunday 31 May, which showcases all the participants of the Virtual Benedetti Sessions. Programme 4:32 Warlock: Capriol Suite Movement 6, ‘Mattachins’ 12:51 Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, 4th movement 23:06 Paganini: Caprice No. 24 played by 12 masters of ...
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VideoLondon City Orchestra plays Mahler - from separate homes
This is the start of the third movement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, which the London-based orchestra was due to play at St John’s Waterloo on 4th April.
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FocusSarasate’s thoughts on New York
During a two-year concert tour of America, violinist Pablo Sarasate corresponded with his adoptive mother Amélie de Lassabathie in Paris. His surviving letters have been translated for the first time into English by Nicholas Sackman and Bastien Terraz, who present a digest of their contents
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VideoViviane Hagner plays Bach in an empty Konzerthaus Berlin
In compliance with social distancing regulations, the German violinist Viviane Hagner plays Bach’s Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor in the empty Great Hall of the Konzerthaus Berlin.
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VideoWorking from home: Thomas Gould gives a fundraising concert
As part of a fundraiser for The Felix Project, which is supplying food throughout the COVID-19 crisis to groups including the homeless and NHS staff, the British violinist Thomas Gould performed a programme live with repertoire including: Bach’s Toccata and Fugue for Organ (transcr for violin), Telemann’s Fantasia No. 1, ...
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FeatureSentimental Work: Steven Isserlis
Beethoven’s Cello Sonata no.4 was the gateway the British cellist needed to understand the myriad delights and complexities of the composer’s work
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VideoHauser - one half of 2Cellos - debuts New Music Video for His Rendition of Handel’s ‘Lascia Ch’io Pianga’
Hauser’s new music video - filmed inside Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts - for his version of George Frideric Handel’s ‘Lascia Ch’io Pianga’ from his debut solo album Classic. Of the track, Hauser says, ‘This is one of my favourite opera arias. Handel composed it for a tenor but ...
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ArticleCellist Alisa Weilerstein on working with conductors
The American musician discusses performing concertos with conductors and how she navigates interpretative disagreements
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NewsRoyal Opera House to stream The Cellist online
The ballet will be made available on YouTube from Friday 29 May
