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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
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VideoViolin and cello duo Arkai perform original composition ‘Aurora’
The work was written for The Peace Studio’s 2018 Peace First Summit as a reflection on gun violence
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Focus9 tips for flexibility in the right hand
A look in The Strad archive for wisdom regarding the importance of flexibility in the bowing arm, hand and fingers
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VideoAnssi Karttunen: Diary Of My Confinement – La Fuga
In this video, made in accordance with social distancing rules, the Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen (recorded in Paris) improvises on the electric cello to a dance improvisation from the Buenos-Aires-born dancer Diana Theocharidis (filmed in Buenos Aires).
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FocusThe Tetzlaff Quartet: is the profundity of Beethoven’s music a barrier to enjoying it?
The members of the Tetzlaff Quartet, who recently released their first Beethoven disc, talk to Tom Stewart about what’s really behind the composer’s late quartets
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Video12-year-old Christian Li plays Fisherman Harvest’s Song
In this video, the 12-year-old Australian-Chinese violinist Christian Li - the youngest ever winner of the Menuhin Competition - plays ‘Fisherman’s Harvest Song’, a traditional folk tune inspired by the fisherman’s harvest in the South China Sea and adapted by the contemporary Chinese composer Li Zili. Li says: ‘I ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Henri Demarquette on Franck’s Violin Sonata (Cello Version)
The cellist looks at the conflicts of French atmosphere and German Romanticism in the first and second movements
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: June 1910
An anonymous reader remonstrates with The Strad for characterising Marie Hall (below) as the first female violinist of the modern era
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NewsStudy shows ‘no increased risk to orchestral musicians’ from concerts
The experiment, commissioned by the Vienna Philharmonic, examined the movement of musicians’ breath while performing
