Featured Stories – Page 142
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn performs Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending
US violinist Hilary Hahn performs Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending with Camerata Salzburg at the George Enescu Festival in October 2013. Read: Violinist Hilary Hahn on practice and interpretation Watch: Violinist Hilary Hahn on owning the stage
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ArticleHow to balance the left-hand when playing chords and double stops
The Berlin University of the Arts and London Royal Academy of Music viola professor speaks about left arm set-up when playing multiple notes simultaneously
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ArticleNicola Benedetti performs Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto in 2017
UK violinist Nicola Benedetti performs Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto with the Gothenburg Symphony conducted by Thomas SøndergŠrd in April 2017. Watch: Violinist Nicola Benedetti on the physicality of playing Watch: Violinist Nicola Benedetti gives Ysaÿe masterclass
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ArticleViolinist Janine Jansen performs Kreisler's Marche Miniature Viennoise
Violinist Janine Jansen performs Kreisler's Marche Miniature Viennoise with pianist Magda Amara on Podium Witteman in May 2016. Read: Janine Jansen receives 1707 Stradivarius violin on ten-year loan Watch: Violinist Janine Jansen performs Brahms aged 13 Watch: Janine Jansen performs Brahms Violin Concerto
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VideoThe Strad Masterclass: violinist Vadim Repin on Chausson's Poème op.25
’There are light and hopeful moments, but also very sad moments of absolute hopelessness’ Violinist Vadim Repin speaks about performing Chausson’s Poème op.25 to The Strad, and performs the work in the video above with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta in 2011. Repin continues The Strad’s marked-up ...
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ArticleBaroque set-up is of secondary importance for getting results in Bach - violinist Christian Tetzlaff
The German artist speaks to Andrew Mellor about finding new depths of discovery in Bach's Solo Sonatas and Partitas
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ArticleLawrence Power on the special qualities of the viola
Of all the stringed instruments, the viola is the greatest compromise acoustically…it shouldn’t really exist' Leading British violist Lawrence Power speaks about the special qualities of his instrument and performs excerpts from Esa-Pekka Salonen's Pentatonic Étude for solo viola and Walton's Viola Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra ...
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ArticleBecoming an early music specialist is not a cop-out. Here’s why...
Violinist and Illyria Consort founder Bojan Cicic offers advice for young players looking to investigate early music performance techniques more seriously
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ArticleGautier Capuçon gives Shostakovich First Cello Concerto masterclass
Not too fast! Keep the semiquavers steady...' Gautier Capuçon gives a masterclass on Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris on 7 January 2017. The cello student is Cornelius Zirbo. The masterclass was recorded for medici.tv and can be viewed in full here. ...
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ArticleAmerican cellist Paul Katz on right-hand vibrato
The American cellist and New England Conservatory professor shares a technical tip from his former teacher, the great János Starker
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ArticleVilde Frang performs Mozart's First Violin Concerto
Vilde Frang performs Mozart's First Violin Concerto with the Munich Philharmonic conducted by Valery Gergiev. The concert was recorded at the Philharmonie im Gasteig in Munich, Germany on 13 November 2016 and recorded for medici.tv's MPhil 360° Festival. Watch: Vilde Frang in a masterclass with Zakhar Bron ...
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ArticleJuilliard String Quartet cellist Astrid Schween on her most stressful live performance moments
I broke a string once live on the radio with my string quartet at the time - the Lark Quartet. I was told I had just 60 seconds to change it and the little hole in the peg never felt so small!' Juilliard String Quartet cellist Astrid ...
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ArticleFrank Peter Zimmermann performs Bartók's Second Violin Concerto in 2016
In this short extract Frank Peter Zimmermann performs the first movement of Bartók's Violin Concerto no. 2 with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alan Gilbert at the Berlin Philharmonie. The performance was recorded live for broadcast via the Berlin Phil's Digital Concert Hall on 4 December ...
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ArticlePinchas Zukerman performs Elgar's Violin Concerto in 2017
In this short excerpt violinist Pinchas Zukerman performs Elgar's Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta at Berlin's Philharmonie. The performance was recorded live for the Berlin Phil's Digital Concert Hall on 12 March 2017. Read: ‘Playing the viola is greatly beneficial to ...
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ArticleLeonidas Kavakos performs Brahms's Violin Concerto in 2017
Leonidas Kavakos performs Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi in celebration of his Léonie Sonning Music Prize win. The recording was made for Danmarks Radio in January 2017. Worth €100,000, the award is Denmark’s highest musical honour and has been ...
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ArticleMy father Slava - by Elena Rostropovich
Accompanist, assistant, daughter: Elena Rostropovich saw her father Mstislav from a uniquely intimate perspective. Marking what would have been the great cellist's 90th birthday in March, she shares some enduring memories with Peter Quantrill
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov on being flexible in Bach
The phrase can be more flexible; you can be the creator on Bach's frame' Maxim Vengerov gives a violin masterclass on Bach’s Solo Sonata No.1, recorded at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The student is Nasrin Rashidova. The full 45-minute video is available to buy as a download ...
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FocusPlaying the double bass with little hands, by bassist Thierry Barbé
The Paris National Opera Orchestra principal bassist discusses how smaller musicians can avoid injury when playing this large instrument
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ArticleViolinist David Garrett performs Paganini Caprice no.24 at La Scala, Milan
David Garrett performs Paganini's Caprice no.24 with Filarmonica della Scala in Milan, conducted by Riccardo Chailly on 30 May 2015. Watch: David Garrett performs on the ‘Cannon’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin Watch: Violinist David Garrett performs Mozart aged 14
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DebatePerforming works composed before the recording era in an 'authentic' style misses the point artistically
We will never truly know what this music sounded like, argues cellist Jeffrey Solow
