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VideoWest Wycombe Chamber Music Festival: closing concert
This is the last concert of Lawrence Power’s West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival, which, owing to the pandemic, the violist has broadcast online this year. He says: ‘For all my dear colleagues, friends and any freelance person on this planet whose beautiful work continues to be silenced by this current ...
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BlogsCollaborating with a contemporary composer
To tie in with their latest release, the Calidore Quartet reflects on the experience of working with the contemporary composer Caroline Shaw
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VideoBeethoven ReCycled
In this video the violinist Yury Revich plays his experimental composition, the ’Beethoven ReCycled’ Sonata, in which he uses sketches and drafts by Beethoven which the composer never included in his final works. A recording of the cadenzas by Russian violinist Yury Revich is available at bit.ly/2E1I5ac. Revich plays ...
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FocusThe concert café that Covid could not close
Justin Pearson interviews conductor Raffaello Morales and cellist Steven Isserlis about the Fidelio Orchestra Café, which is putting on performances during the pandemic
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FocusRewiring ourselves to play without fear
In the third of a four-part series, Gwendolyn Masin, concert violinist, author and educator, explains how we can harness breath, meditation and yoga practice to help us play without fear
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BlogsHow can musicians get closer to audiences during Covid?
Viola player Shiry Rashkovsky talks about creating intimacy in small, relaxed venues
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Blogs5 reasons to love Barber’s String Quartet op.11
Scottish Chamber Orchestra violinist Gordon Bragg shares his observations ahead of the SCO’s performance of the work this week - streamed online for free
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FocusGuy Johnston: Life Lessons
The British cellist reflects on transformative experiences in the US and returning as a teacher to his old student haunts
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NewsManchester Camerata appoints new first desk
Violinists Caroline Pether and Katie Stillman are both graduates of the city’s Royal Northern College of Music
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NewsUS violin teacher Norman Bernal dies aged 75
The Peruvian-born violinist was well known in his home state of Georgia
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VideoBravo! Vail's Inside the Music with the Dover Quartet
In this video from this year’s Bravo! Vail festival, the Dover Quartet reflects on how the global pandemic has impacted them as individuals and as an ensemble and perform the 2nd and 3rd movements of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 74, ‘Harp’. The players of ...
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VideoLPO members play Haydn at the National Gallery
In the second of their performances matching chamber music with paintings from the National Gallery, members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra bring together Joseph Haydn’s ‘String trio in C major’ of 1766 and a painting by François-Hubert Drouais. Created only a couple of years apart in the 1760s, they demonstrate ...
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Focus‘You’re never truly ready, but at a certain point you just have to dive in and do it,’ – Dover Quartet on recording Beethoven
After twelve years together, the Dover Quartet is marking its graduation to the ranks of mature ensembles with a new Beethoven recording cycle and a residency at the Curtis Institute. The players speak to Charlotte Smith
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VideoBelgian-Armenian cellist plays in bombed-out church
Sevak Avanesyan, a Belgian cellist of Armenian descent, plays Komitas’s Krunk in Shusha’s Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, several days after the iconic church was badly damaged in the bombing of the city. Watch: Yo-Yo Ma and Renaud Capucon mark Armistice with Ravel Read: Yo-Yo Ma plays cello ...
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NewsBashmet back after Covid-19 hospitalisation
‘Protect yourself from the virus, it’s a very nasty thing,’ Bashmet told reporters
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NewsViolinist Yesong Sophie Lee loaned rare 1687 Stradivari
The violin comes from the master luthier’s early period and is in excellent condition
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VideoLPO members play Dvorák at the National Gallery
In the first of their performances matching chamber music with paintings from the National Gallery, members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra bring together Antonín Dvořák’s ‘Terzetto in C major’, Op. 74, 1887, and three paintings that conjure up a sense of place through landscape, locals and traditions; two works are ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Hagai Shaham on Brahms Violin Sonata no.3
In his explorations of the first movement, the Israeli violinst discusses the German composer’s clear performance instructions, intimate Romantic style and self-critical nature
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: November 1940
One year into the Second World War, The Strad laments the limited prospects for British musicians, despite the indisputable need for music in such troubled times
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VideoHenning Kraggerrud plays a Guarneri ‘Del Gesù’
In this music video the Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerrud plays the Guarneri Del Gesù violin from 1744 (the last year of the luthier’s life) – the violin featured in The Strad calendar 2021. Read: Pride of Norway: The Strad calendar 2021
