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BlogsMeditation (not from Thaïs) for musicians
Violist Matthew Jones discusses the ways in which meditation and mindfulness can help performers, as he prepares for his ‘Music and Silence’ concert at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival
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ArticleViolinist Rachel Barton Pine performs her own Happy Birthday variations
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs her own virtuoso arrangement of Happy Birthday - 'Introduction, Theme and Variations on the Birthday Song' - for the Lake Forest Symphony's 75th anniversary gala in November 2007. Read: American Airlines pilot denies Rachel Barton Pine access to cabin with her violin ...
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ArticleRavi Shankar, Alla Rakha and Yehudi Menuhin Trio
Ravi Shankar: 'Our teaching is based on oral tradition; our music is not written down.'Yehudi Menuhin: 'That's why it's alive!'Violinist Yehudi Menuhin discusses and plays Indian music with friend and colleague Ravi Shankar.The Strad's May 2016 Menuhin Centenary issue is out now – download through The Strad App ...
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FocusPostcard from the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition
It wasn’t just the first prize that was split at the Nielsen Competition in Odense on Friday, writes Andrew Mellor, it was also the jury – but isn’t that the point?
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ArticleViolinist Yehudi Menuhin on the importance of practice
Anything that one wants to do really, one must do every day. It should be easy to the artist and natural as flying is to a bird' Violinist Yehudi Menuhin talks about the importance of practice. The interview is taken from 'The Menuhin Century' boxed set of ...
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DebateConstructive criticism is necessary for healthy musical development
Just how self-critical do we need to be to get the best out of ourselves, asks Pauline Harding
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Article9-year-old Leia Zhu performs Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
9-year-old Leia Zhu performs the second and third movements of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Surgut Philharmonic conducted by Denis Kirpanev in April 2016.A student of Itzhak Rashkovsky, the young violinist won the International Russian Rotary Music Competition in Moscow in September 2015 – watch her performing Mendelssohn ...
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ArticleThe Strad Masterclass: Danjulo Ishizaka on the Grieg Cello Sonata
In the video above cellist Mischa Maisky and pianist Martha Argerich perform the first movement - Allegro agitato - of Grieg's Cello Sonata, op.36. Cellist Danjulo Ishizaka continues The Strad’s new marked-up sheet music series in association with Henle Verlag with the work's first movement – giving bowings, fingerings and ...
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ArticleYehudi Menuhin performs Bach at the age of 69
Yehudi Menuhin performs the Prelude from Bach's Solo Violin Partita no.3 in 1985 at the age of 69
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ArticleViolinist Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Bach's Chaconne
Frank Peter Zimmermann talks in The Strad's April 2016 issue about revisiting the Mozart Violin Concertos on disc, 20 years after his breakthrough recording - download on desktop computer or buy in print Read The Strad’s 7 ways to play perfect chords and see how other great violinists tackled the ...
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ArticleViolinist Anne Akiko Meyers performs with broken foot
Anne Akiko Meyers suffered a fall on Friday while walking with her children, just a few hours before she was due to give her second of three performances of Mason Bates’s Violin Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington.The violinist, who believed at ...
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ArticleParody video: how to be a classical musician
Step 4: Practise....for the rest of your life''Step 8: Avoid acquiring a pretentious European accent'CBC Music presents a tongue-in-cheek video guide on how to be a classical musician, produced by IFHT.Watch: Opera Five spoofs Air Canada’s musical instrument policy
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BlogsIt’s the taking part that counts’: Are competitions always defined by results?
This year’s Menuhin Competition promoted a ‘non-competitive atmosphere of learning and exchange’, but how true was this for the performers, asks Charlotte Smith
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ArticleCellist Ralph Kirshbaum gives Haydn masterclass
You should play with a feeling of improvisation, as this is a cadenza. At the moment it feels too self-conscious'Ralph Kirshbaum gives a masterclass on Haydn's Cello Concerto in D for Play With A Pro Music Academy. The full 42-minute video can be downloaded here.Watch: Cellist Ralph Kirshbaum ...
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Article12-year-old Yesong Sophie Lee gives 2016 Menuhin Competition winning performance
12-year-old Yesong Sophie Lee gives her winning performance in the 2016 Menuhin Competition Junior Finals at London's Royal Academy of Music.The young violinist leads the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra as soloist in Summer from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and also performs the world premiere of the new commission for ...
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Article20-year-old Yu-Ting Chen performs at Menuhin Competition 2016
20-year-old violinist Yu-Ting Chen performs in the 2016 Menuhin Competition Senior Semi-Finals.Her programme features the first movement of Bartók’s Solo Sonata, the Adagio con espressione from Beethoven’s String Trio op.9 no.3, Enescu’s Impromptu Concertant and Szymanowski's Nocturne and Tarantella.Watch: 11-year-old Samuel Tan performs at Menuhin Competition 2016Read: Menuhin ...
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ArticleYesong Sophie Lee performs at Menuhin Competition 2016
12-year-old violinist Yesong Sophie Lee performs in the 2016 Menuhin Competition Junior Semi-Finals.Her programme features the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata no.8, two movements from Dvorák's Terzetto in C, and Waxman's Carmen Fantasy.Watch: 11-year-old Samuel Tan performs at Menuhin Competition 2016Read: Menuhin Competition 2016 reveals five Junior Finalists
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FocusPostcard from the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition
For the first time in its 36-year history, a UK player took the first prize at the Isle of Man competition. Tully Potter reports on the week-long event
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Article16-year-old Ziyu He performs at Menuhin Competition 2016
16-year-old violinist Ziyu He performs in the 2016 Menuhin Competition Senior Semi-Finals.His programme features the first movement of Bartók's Solo Sonata, the Adagio con espressione from Beethoven's String Trio op.9 no.3, Enescu's Impromptu Concertant and Paganini's Variation 'Nel cor piu non mi sento'.Watch: 11-year-old Samuel Tan performs at ...
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Article12-year-old Yeyeong Jin performs at Menuhin Competition 2016
12-year-old violinist Yeyeong Jin performs in the 2016 Menuhin Competition Junior Semi-Finals.Her programme features the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata no.8, the Scherzo from Dvorák's Terzetto and Wieniawski's Variations on an Original Theme.Watch: 11-year-old Samuel Tan performs at Menuhin Competition 2016Read: Menuhin Competition 2016 names 10 violinists through ...
