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ArticleAudiences return to UK concert halls
Performances by the LSO, Steven Isserlis and the Heath Quartet among the first to welcome spectators since late last year
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Focus‘He turned to me, a mere 22-year-old student, and asked my opinion’ – Julian Lloyd Webber on Pierre Fournier
In celebration of his 70th birthday last month, British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber shares memories with Julian Haylock of some of the cellists who shaped him
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NewsFrom Baroque violist to CEO
To mark the release of The English Concert’s new Handel recording, the group’s chief executive tells us how playing the viola has shaped his management style
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VideoJunior Semi-Finals from the Menuhin Competition Richmond 2021
The video features performances from five internatiional candidates, aged 13-15
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NewsAnne-Sophie Mutter says her appeals to politicians have failed
The violinist accuses the German government’s pandemic reposnse of showing ‘downright disregard’ for musicians
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NewsMenuhin competition finalists announced
Nine young violinists will compete next week for their share of more than $80,000
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VideoDallas String Quartet delivers a Latin twist
In this video the Dallas String Quartet teams up with the jazz pianist Jesús Molina for a spicy, original single entitled ‘Sabor,’ delivering a Latin twist and spicy keys from Molina (of Colombia). Read ’I’m a classically-trained violinist, but I’d love to play Jazz. How do I start?’
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FocusEasing back into performance post Covid-19
Berenice Beverley Zammit, Graduate Teaching Assistant for Music Performance Psychology at the Royal College of Music, gives guidance on getting back into practice after a year of lockdown
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FocusHow lockdown inspired me to compose for my own instrument
When the first lockdown hit in March 2020, composer-cellist Colin Alexander was finally inspired to write multi-layered solo music for his own instrument - something he had never tried before, as he explains here
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VideoAmit Peled plays an African-American Spiritual
The Israeli cellist Amit Peled plays ‘A Motherless Child’, an African American Spiritual newly arranged for cello and orchestra, with the Asheville Symphony. Read Sentimental Work: Amit Peled Read Cellist Amit Peled launches online cello academy sessions Watch 12-year-old violinist Leia Zhu plays Kodály with cellist Amit Peled
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NewsRussia announces new system of instrument passports
Following a number of wrongful confiscations at Russian airports, the new system aims to make life easier for traveling musicians
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VideoMorgen! Nicola Benedetti and Andrew Staples perform Richard Strauss
Members of the Aurora Orchestra and conductor Nicholas Collon are joined by Benedetti and Staples for Strauss’s 1894 song ‘Morgen!’
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ArticleRoyal wedding conductor and violinist quits Charlotte Symphony
Christopher Warren-Green, a former concertmaster of the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted at the weddings of Princes Charles, William and Harry
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ArticleMexican string siblings murdered by organised crime group
José Alberto, Ana Karen and Luis Ángel González Moreno were kidnapped and killed by members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
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Focus‘I think there’s a feeling that you expect out of an encore’ – Hilary Hahn
The violinist Hilary Hahn speaks to Charlotte Gardner about her encore choices
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ArticleSponsored: Waltham Forest Cello Fest 2021
Now in its third year, the London-based celebration of all things cello is back with a jam-packed programme of events
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VideoBoris Begelman plays Bach
In this music video from 2017 the violinist Boris Begelman plays the Gavotte from Bach’s Violin Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006. Read Session Report: Playing the hero
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FocusDoes criticising Vivaldi's abundant output miss the point?
Violinist Boris Begelman’s new recording represents a small fraction of the hundreds of violin concertos Vivaldi wrote during his lifetime – but people miss the point when they assume the composer’s prolific output equates to works of lesser quality, he tells Tom Stewart
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VideoHilary Hahn plays Dvorák’s Violin Concerto in a ‘concert without public’
In this concert, performed in an empty hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt on 22 April 2021, Hilary Hahn plays Dvořák’s Violin Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony under Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Read How I warm up: Hilary Hahn
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ArticleHow to play on gut strings for the first time
As a violinist with only modern training, exploring the sound world of gut strings was a daunting yet exciting proposition for Francisco Fullana. Here he gives guidance on how to start and what to keep in mind
